Xiaomi is actually known for home appliances and smartphones. But at the end of 2023, the Chinese group surprised the concept of a sporty electric car, which came to the market a few months later and which is sold in China. Subsequently, Xiaomi wants to expand abroad.
In addition, Chinese planned a research and development center for electric cars in Germany (F&E), Nikkei reportThis has been confirmed by Japanese wirtschaftszeitung. Accordingly, Munich should become a place.
About 50 employees in Munich are asked to work, most of them from management and business areas, Chinese news 36 reports Cripton Citing a source with internal knowledge. For the Munich location, Xiaomi wanted to recruit an elite team and also remove the experts of the contestants.
Motor sports specialists work in Munich
It seems that it has been successful: former BMW manager Rudolf Ditrich handled the management of the F&Center working there, in the Motorsport Department, along with other things. Among other things, his team belongs to the record Eigabella Macau, who was the first Aerodynamicist in Ferrari’s Formula 1 team.

According to the source, a task of the Munich team is the work on Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype, which was last year Install a record on the northern loop of Nurburgering Is.
So far, Xiaomi has launched a car only on the market, SU7 Electric Sports Car, which is aimed at Porsche Tycan’s contestant and has been sold very well in China.
In the future, SU7 should also be available in Europe. For this, the group forms a sales team located in Daseldorf. It should prepare the market entry into Germany, France and Spain.
(Wpl)
