It is reported that Xiaomi will jointly build cars with BAIC because it has not obtained the automobile production license for a long time

At Lei Jun's annual speech on August 11 this year, Xiaomi announced the live video of the road test of its automatic driving technology, and said that Xiaomi's automatic driving technology has entered the test stage. 140 test vehicles are planned in the first phase, and will be tested in the whole country.

Today, Xiaomi has made new progress in car building. According to Bloomberg, the insider said that due to the delay in Xiaomi's obtaining the license for independent production of vehicles, Xiaomi is discussing with BAIC group about the cooperative production of electric vehicles. At present, the two sides are exploring ways of cooperation, including Xiaomi's direct purchase of Beijing Hyundai No. 2 factory with automobile production license.

According to the report, although the second factory of Beijing Hyundai is old and needs major upgrading to produce electric vehicles, BAIC Blue Valley, a subsidiary of BAIC group, may cooperate with Xiaomi and be responsible for the production of Xiaomi vehicles.

According to the 21 finance and economics report, a relevant person from the Investor Relations Department of BAIC Blue Valley responded that he had not received any relevant and accurate information. According to the daily economic news, BAIC group said: "I have never heard of this.".

On August 17, 36 krypton learned from an informed person that Xiaomi automobile has identified two main battery suppliers, namely Ningde times and BYD's Fudi battery. These two battery companies are also the leading battery manufacturers in the new energy field in China.

On the same day, Lei Jun showed the use of smart calling Xiaomi autonomous vehicle on his Tiktok account. Lei Jun clicked the one button call of relevant app on his mobile phone, and Xiaomi autonomous vehicle in the parking lot automatically drove from B2 on the second floor to the exit on the first floor.

In Lei Jun's new book thinking about Xiaomi's entrepreneurship, Lei Jun said that for Xiaomi, building cars is the general trend and there is no choice. At the same time, Lei Jun hopes to make a good car that can compete with all products at the same level, and then consider the subversive part.

BAIC group was founded in 1958. It has well-known enterprises and R & D institutions such as BAIC motor, Changhe Automobile, BAIC new energy, Beijing Hyundai, Beijing Benz, etc. In terms of products, the new hi version of Jihu alpha s under BAIC blue valley was launched on May 7 this year. The car is equipped with Hongmeng car OS, and the price starts from 397900 yuan.

Xiaomi officially announced on March 30 last year that it would join the car building army with an initial investment of 10 billion yuan and an expected investment of 10 billion US dollars in the next 10 years.

At the end of November last year, Xiaomi signed a contract with the Management Committee of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone to build an automobile business headquarters base and a sales and R & D headquarters in Yizhuang, and will build an automobile factory with an annual output of 300000 vehicles. At that time, the announcement said that the plant would be built in two phases, with the annual capacity of 150000 vehicles in phase I and phase II respectively. It also said that Xiaomi's first car was expected to be offline in 2024 and achieve mass production.