Xiaomi yu7: Deliveries have started and the manager himself gives the keys to the happy owners

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However, as we previously talked about it in our columns, Waiting times are very long, up to 14 months. Xiaomi EV posted on the Weibo social network a photograph that shows Lei Jun, business manager, putting the keys to certain owners personally.

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YU7 deliveries are now launched

For the moment, the Chinese firm has not specified the number of vehicles delivered during this first wave, but we know that deliveries started in 58 cities in China.

Waiting times have further extended with the start of deliveries. The standard version of the YU7 requests an expectation between 59 and 62 weeks, against 58 to 61 weeks last Friday.

The Pro and Max versions of the YU7 have waiting times respectively between 53 to 56 weeks, and 45 to 48 weeks. This is also an increase compared to previous deadlines, which were 51 to 54 weeks and 32 to 42 weeks.

In short, demand is very strong for the electric SUV. The arrival of the YU7 makes it fear that its sales can can cannibalize those of SU7, but Lei Jun minimizes these concerns. The manager explains that less than 15 % of the total orders of the YU7 come from transfers from the SU7 and SU7 Ultra.

Commercial success is also demonstrated at launch With 200,000 firm orders in the first three minutes and more than 240,000 confirmed orders in 6 p.m. Exceptional figures that explain these waiting times.

Xiaomi has already produced some YU7 to allow customers to receive their orders. But this launch challenges the company’s production capacity, since the current operational factory corresponds to phase 1 of its Beijing site, with an annual capacity of 150,000 units.

Since June 2024, this factory has been operating in two teams to meet the request for SU7. Sina Tech reported last week that Xiaomi’s phase 2 factory was making massive recruitment to prepare mass production.