Xiaomi already makes money from electric cars as YU7 beats Tesla Model Y sales

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Tesla had its worst monthly sales number in China in nearly three years, despite the launch of the exclusive six-seat Model Y L. A newcomer for the EV industry has managed to top the Model Y sales there in just two years.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-already-makes-money-from-electric-cars-as-YU7-beats-Tesla-Model-Y-sales.1166525.0.html

[heffeque]

I'm pretty sure that if priced reasonably, it would be a huge hit in Spain.

- Xiaomi has a huge chunk of smartphone sales: currently #1 brand in Spain, with almost 30% of the market.
- Chinese cars already cope 20% of EV sales in Spain: there's not as much "oh, it's Chinese, it must be bad quality" mentality in Spain as in other countries. Spanish people are more concerned about the quality/price ratio, regardless of the country of origin. Xiaomi makes great high quality phones that are generally less expensive than Samsung or Apple, so they'll go for the less expensive one. Why pay more for less?

Pack those 2 together and it would be a landslide for Xiaomi.

Either way, Xiaomi is not in a hurry to expand, as they still can't make cars quickly enough for their own country.

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I'm pretty sure that if priced reasonably, it would be a huge hit in Spain.

- Xiaomi has a huge chunk of smartphone sales: currently #1 brand in Spain, with almost 30% of the market.

Surprising considering how bad they are, not the hardware but the software. They intentionally gimp the phones/tablets to make them worse. Out of all the devices, the Xiaomi one is the worst I've ever owned. And that factors in cheap Chinese junk devices. So despite having better hardware, the software is horrible.

And worst of all, the thing that makes it horrible is intentional. Their memory management is the worst. On any other android device you can at least tell it to let processes run. But Xiaomi ignores those settings. And every update only makes it worse.