Smartphone maker Xiaomi builts world’s fastest 4-door car

What Apple failed to accomplish is building its own electric car, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi excels in doing so by building the world’s fastest four-door car ever, the SU7 Ultra. Imagine going from 0 to 200 km/h in 5.96 seconds.

This is a Porsche Taycan-sized ultra-version of the SU7 that is on sale in China exclusively for a base price of 215,900 yuan (€27,155). The first 50,000 were sold out overnight, and the other 50,00 for this year were sold out in no time.

1,548 horsepower

The SU7 Ultra is fully electric and needs only 1.97 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km/h, with a top speed of 350 km/h. It features Xiaomi’s new self-developed electric motors: two named ‘V8s’, each producing a maximum of 548 hp in the back, and one ‘V6’ for the front wheels, for a total of 1,548 horsepower.

Of course, the ‘V8’ and ‘V6’ have nothing to do with combustion engines as they are compact electro-motors, but they wink at the power you might expect from them.

Beating the Taycan?

Xiaomi is eager to show off its new supercar as the fastest in the world, and in October, it will prove that on the famous Nürburgring, where it will try to set the best lap. Currently, the Porsche Taycan holds the lap record for 4-door cars.

In January 2024, in-house racing driver Lars Kern beat the electric Porsche’s previous record by 25 seconds, recording a lap time of 7 minutes, 07.55 seconds.

With this lap time, the Taycan model beat the Tesla S Plaid record by 18 seconds and put pressure on another league, the Supercar League. In one rapid lap, the new Taycan is closer to the time of the 1,914-hp electric supercar Rimac Nevera (7′ 05.298″).