Xiaomi returned to the Nürburgring to set another lap record, but this time it did it with nobody in the car at all, setting down the first official autonomous time at the world-famous racetrack.
Nürburgring is one of the world’s most famous racetracks, and one of the most difficult ones. The track is over 12 miles long through the German countryside and includes high and low speed turns, varied road surfaces and lots of bumps and hills. As such, it’s often used for vehicle benchmarking – and for bragging rights.
Over the years we’ve seen a lot of back and forth from various EV manufacturers trying to go the quickest around this track. NIO, Porsche, Tesla and others have gotten in on the record race over the years.
But Xiaomi has been one of the strongest competitors lately.
When Xiaomi first launched the high-performance version of its SU7 Ultra sport sedan, it took the car around Nürburgring and set a record as the fastest four-door car ever, gas or electric – albeit with a stripped-down prototype version of the car (it’s since improved on that record, beating everything but 3 custom-built racecars). It later came back with the mass-produced, non-stripped version and won a production EV record instead, which has since been beaten.
