Xiaomi SU7 production to reach 24,000 per month in November and December

06 November 2024
The company still can't match its production capacity with the number of orders it's receiving.

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  • Yazidi

Anonymous, 20 hours agoRamping of production is very aggressive, so I have to wonder about quality of manufacturing. ... moreThis is Xiaomi. One of the biggest smartphone and electronic device manufacturer in the world. They have vast experience in releasing new models and products on a regular basis. Being able to deliver an ev like the SU7 on their first attempt, within a time frame of just 3 years, should tell you what they are capable of. Mind you, they have no prior experience in auto mfg.

  • Yazidi

Anonymous, 21 hours agoIn a car factory you already have multiple shifts, cars are produced 24h per day not including... moreHow they come out with this car in the first place, within 3 years is beyond me. So ramping up production seems like something they can pull off easily. Being one of the top smartphone and electronic device manufacturer in the world.

  • Anonymous

Anonymous, 15 hours agoDid you see how cars are made in a car factory? I don't think so. I am working in automo... moreSo expecting Xiaomi to assemble cars differently than an EU car maker looks very unlikely to me.

  • Anonymous

Anonymous, 17 hours agoThey don't make one car in 100s. One car may take 1000s when there are 10 parallel assemb... moreDid you see how cars are made in a car factory? I don't think so.
I am working in automotive industry and at the plant I am currently or the previous ones, they don't have 10 parallel assembly lines for the main line(assembly of the whole car), they have a single one for a single model, but If they are very similar then another model is also made on that assembly line. Even for doors, hood or roof you don't have more assembly stations.

For example, an assembly station where I am needs 18 robots for one model(3x gluing, 1x cleaning, 4x clinching, 3x folding, the rest for moving the part). If you think you can do everything with only 2 robots then good luck.
Even if you somehow manage to make a working layout with only 2 robots, you would still need a very long 7th axis on which the robots are moving or 2 depending on the layout, a lot of docking for different technologies. So such an assembly station wouldn't be much smaller than the current one.
If you need 1 or 2 workers there, you would need more now. And then of course the cost of making 10 such stations would be many times more expensive than a single one.

  • Anonymous

Anonymous, 21 hours agoIn a car factory you already have multiple shifts, cars are produced 24h per day not including... moreThey don't make one car in 100s. One car may take 1000s when there are 10 parallel assembly lines in a building, but that comes to an average of 100s. I once had talk to a Chinese girl amd she said 11 number is lucky in China like working 11 hours shifts. So, I wonder the work culture.

  • Anonymous

Ramping of production is very aggressive, so I have to wonder about quality of manufacturing.
I wouldn't be surprised If quality control is more lax.

  • Wulverine

Super cool car. I'd buy one. Thank you for the article.

  • Anonymous

In a car factory you already have multiple shifts, cars are produced 24h per day not including breaks, shift change, etc. There is no production during weekend unless they are behind schedule at least in VW.
I don't think It's any different with Xiaomi.
Xiaomi at best is producing also during weekend, so that's 140% of capacity or 17,500.
How they make additional 6500 cars is beyond me.

The only explanation I can think of is that they reduced the time needed for a single car to be made.
For example, until now It took 130s to make a single car but now It will be only 100s.

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