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Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China\u2019s robust manufacturing supply chain.<\/p>\n

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After nearly a decade of trying, Apple finally gave up its effort to produce an electric car last year, canceling a project that soaked up $10 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But last year in China, the electronics maker Xiaomi launched its first electric car after just three years of development and delivered 135,000 vehicles. It has vowed to double that number in 2025.<\/p>\n

Xiaomi\u2019s ability to succeed where Apple could not shows how thoroughly China has come to dominate the supply chain<\/a> for electric vehicles. Chinese companies have mastered electric vehicle manufacturing<\/a>. By tapping that infrastructure, Xiaomi was able to get components quickly and cheaply.<\/p>\n

More Chinese electric vehicle companies \u2014 including Leapmotor, Li Auto and Seres Group \u2014 are starting to turn a profit after burning cash for years in their intense competition for the world\u2019s largest auto market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And Xiaomi is not the only Chinese consumer electronics company that has branched out to electric vehicles. The telecommunications giant Huawei, which the U.S. government has targeted with sanctions and legal action for years, is making autonomous driving<\/a> software. Huawei has partnered with multiple Chinese automakers, including Seres Group and the state-owned firms SAIC Motor, BAIC and Chery.<\/p>\n

Xiaomi has long been compared to Apple. It made bets that its rivals rushed to imitate<\/a>, like selling its low-cost, high-design phones mainly online. Its chief executive, Lei Jun, even dressed like the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, in jeans and a black shirt, for Xiaomi\u2019s first phone launch in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China\u2019s robust manufacturing supply chain.After nearly a decade of trying, Apple finally gave up its effort to produce an electric car last year, canceling a project that soaked up $10 billion.But last year in China, the electronics maker Xiaomi launched its first electric car after just three years of development and delivered 135,000 vehicles. It has vowed to double that number in 2025.Xiaomi\u2019s ability to succeed where Apple could not shows how thoroughly China has come to dominate the supply chain for electric vehicles. Chinese companies have mastered electric vehicle manufacturing. By tapping that infrastructure, Xiaomi was able to get components quickly and cheaply.More Chinese electric vehicle companies \u2014 including Leapmotor, Li Auto and Seres Group \u2014 are starting to turn a profit after burning cash for years in their intense competition for the world\u2019s largest auto market.And Xiaomi is not the only Chinese consumer electronics company that has branched out to electric vehicles. The telecommunications giant Huawei, which the U.S. government has targeted with sanctions and legal action for years, is making autonomous driving software. Huawei has partnered with multiple Chinese automakers, including Seres Group and the state-owned firms SAIC Motor, BAIC and Chery.Xiaomi has long been compared to Apple. It made bets that its rivals rushed to imitate, like selling its low-cost, high-design phones mainly online. Its chief executive, Lei Jun, even dressed like the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, in jeans and a black shirt, for Xiaomi\u2019s first phone launch in 2011.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23022,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23023,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020\/revisions\/23023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}