Xiaomi Announces European Electric Vehicle Sales Launch for Next Year

Another Chinese EV maker joins grid in Europe, with Xiaomi to launch sales next year

Chinese tech firm Xiaomi will start selling electric cars in Europe next year, it announced at a consumer electronics trade show in Berlin on Thursday, adding to the growing list of Chinese carmakers expanding into the European market despite EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles (EVs) and growing wariness across the bloc. Xiaomi Auto, the group’s EV arm, said it would enter several European markets including Germany, where it had signed agreements with eight car dealer groups to build a...

By Huizhao Huang,Xiaofei Xu