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There are many hot new thangs in the Chinese EV market, but I don’t think any company has made a hotter overall splash in the past few years than Xiaomi. The consumer electronics company stormed into the EV market and was immediately a huge hit. Its first couple of models — first couple of cars at all — have done what a million other companies have failed to do — shot right up into the top tier of the EV sales charts. Now it’s introduced the Xiaomi Sky Nomad, and this model is following suit.
Note that this is an extended-range SUV. Reportedly, the model has pulled in more than 100,000 pre-orders. “Since the pre-sale of Xiaomi’s Pengcheng series new cars began, market enthusiasm has remained high. In the following week, Cailian Press reporters conducted on-site visits and telephone inquiries with Xiaomi Auto direct-sale stores in multiple cities across the country, including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, and Chengdu, to obtain information on the pre-sale status and feedback from the end-market for the Pengcheng series new cars,” a local news outlet reports (Google Translation).
