The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra, the most powerful and fastest version of the Xiaomi SU7, has officially debuted on the Chinese market. The price of the SU7 Ultra starts at 529,900 yuan and is hard to raise. The car accelerates to 100 km/h in 2.1 seconds and accelerates to a maximum of 350 km/h. The maximum charging power of the model is 480 kW, it takes less than 11 minutes to replenish energy from 10 to 80 percent. The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is cheaper than the cheapest Porsche Taycan in China (898,000 yuan) and faster than the fastest Porsche Taycan in China (Turbo GT with Weissach Package, 2.2 seconds to 100 km/h), it also accelerates better than the Tesla Model S Plaid.
Xiaomi SU7 Ultra. Looks like a Porsche, drives faster than a Porsche, costs less than a Porsche
The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is the most powerful SU7 in the range and yet it is half the price of the Porsche Taycan. Even if one assumes that the car will become typically 80 percent more expensive when it enters the European market, the price of the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra would start in the neighborhood of the cheapest Porsche Taycan. So expect Xiaomi to adjust its pricing policy on the Old Continent so as not to intimidate a potential European with the cost of purchase.
Xiaomi SU7 Ultra with acceleration better even than Tesla Model S Plaid
On paper, the SU7 Ultra looks great: it has three motors with a total output of more than 1.1 MW, 1,138 kW/1,548 hp and 1,770 Nm of torque. At the rear are two V8s, at the front one designated as a V6e. Those at the rear can accelerate to 27,200 rpm.
Battery capacity is 93.7 kWh, and we’re dealing with a cell-to-body, cell-to-cell, CATL Qilin Generation II battery pack with Li-NCM cells (source). The claimed range is 630 CLTC units, which would correspond to about 594 WLTP units, about 273 kilometers realistically at 140 km/h and with the battery discharged to zero [preliminary calculations].
“Normal” 0-100 km/h acceleration of the SU7 Ultra, measured in European terms, is, as we mentioned, 2.1 seconds. But when measured “in the American way,” with the first foot of rolling subtracted, the car accelerates to 100 km/h in 1.98 seconds (source). The Tesla needs 0.01 seconds more even when measured to 97 km/h (0-60 mph). It takes the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra 5.86 seconds to reach 200 km/h. Top speed is 350 km/h.
If the manufacturer’s promises are to be believed, Xiaomi’s latest electric can recharge the battery to 80 percent in less than 11 minutes, at 5.2 C (discharge is as high as 16 C!). Unfortunately, in Europe you won’t yet find chargers with CCS2 connectors that can handle amperages of 600 amps at 800 volts (=480 kW), so expect the peak to be around 400 kW. That’s still better than the Porsche Taycan accelerating to a maximum of 320 kW, not to mention the Tesla Model S.
Xiaomi claims to have collected 15,000 orders in just 24 hours after the car’s official launch.
