2025 New Xiaomi YU7 – impressive Family High-Tech SUV!
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New Xiaomi YU7 2025 review: a world-beating new EV to worry the establishment
BMW or Mercedes would do anything to keep the new Xiaomi YU7 from sale in the UK and Europe, and this is why
Verdict
It’s astonishing what Xiaomi has achieved with the YU7 SUV. This is not just a good looking, high quality and high-tech EV, but one that offers world-beating range, charging and performance in a package that feels as well engineered as any European or Japanese alternative. The fact this new-age brand has achieved all this with less than 10 years experience of building anything more mechanically complicated than a vacuum cleaner or smart phone is even more incredible.
From refrigerators to tablets, air-conditioning units or even ultrasonic toothbrushes, Chinese brand Xiaomi has an incredibly wide remit when it comes to its consumer products, but its venture into the world of electric cars seems to have put it right to the forefront of European attention. Twelve months after the release of its first EV, the impressive SU7 saloon, is the ambitious brand’s next natural step: the YU7 SUV – a model that’s already been setting the sales chart alight in its native Chinese market.
This large, stately and well formed SUV might have a design that’s reminiscent of a few European brands – we’re thinking a little McLaren 720S around the nose and Ferrari Purosangue at the side – but this is hardly a bad place to start when designing a new brand from scratch. Size-wise it’s actually quite a large SUV, being slightly longer and wider yet lower than a Porsche Cayenne. This also makes it quite significantly larger than its more direct rival from Porsche, the Macan Electric.
As a result there’s plenty of space inside the cabin, which is minimalist in design and feels of high quality. Like many new-age Chinese EVs the interior tech is quite captivating, with a large central touchscreen joined by a huge head-up display that sits across the base of the whole windscreen. Drivers can configure this new display in multiple formats, and it provides a home for the in-car virtual assistant that takes the form of a cute and cuddly capybara. This is very similar to what BMW has been working to introduce on its forthcoming Neue Klasse models, although the German brand seems unlikely to include the exotic furry side-kick.
The cabin also includes a new type of panoramic glass roof that’s able to graduate between completely clear and completely tinted to a factor of 99.85 per cent, albeit taking a few minutes to complete the transformation.
Xiaomi offers the YU7 with two battery packs and three power levels, and all feature 800V electronic architecture with an incredible 500kW peak DC charging rate. This is leagues ahead of all the western competition, even beating the latest Mercedes MMA products which offer 320kW maximum charging speeds. Its range and performance figures are also in a different league to almost all rivals.
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