Overview
- Founder Lei Jun hosted a New Year livestream featuring a live teardown of a Xiaomi YU7 and a Q&A addressing widely shared allegations.
- Lei rebutted the “1,300 km on one charge” criticism by citing his own trip with a single charging stop and restated the YU7’s CLTC-rated range of 835 km.
- Xu said phrases like “braking from 200 km/h instantly” were lifted out of context from performance testing footage rather than marketing claims.
- Xiaomi accused organized accounts of malicious editing and labeling such as “绿化带战神,” promised legal support for targeted owners, and urged reporting of abusive content.
- Following the livestream, Xu said the concentrated debunking was only a start and welcomed peer and creator teardowns, as EV market forecasts point to slower 2026 growth that heightens reputational stakes.