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Xiaomi picked quite a day to break new ground. On September 7, the smartphone giant turned automaker launched the Sky Nomad, its first family of extended-range SUVs — and within four minutes of the order books opening, more than 10,000 buyers had paid deposits to lock in their cars. Hours earlier, the company had announced that cumulative vehicle deliveries had crossed 800,000, roughly 29 months after the first SU7 rolled out in April 2024.

Four Variants, Starting Under $31,000

The Sky Nomad line arrives in four flavors. The entry N70 Pro, a five-seat mid-to-large SUV, starts at 209,900 yuan (about $30,960). The dual-motor N70 Max comes in at 239,900 yuan — a full 20,000 yuan below its July pre-sale price. The seven-seat N90 Max, with a family-friendly 2+2+3 layout, costs 269,900 yuan, undercutting its pre-sale figure by 30,000 yuan. Topping the range at 299,900 yuan is the N90 Max Explorer, a five-seat camping special with a factory pop-top roof that opens up 2,294 mm of interior standing height, a fold-flat bed, and underfloor heating.

Deliveries are quick by launch standards: Xiaomi says customers who lock in orders can expect their vehicles within one to five weeks.

The Numbers Behind the Range Extender

Every Sky Nomad pairs a 1.5-liter turbocharged range extender — happy on regular 92-octane fuel — with a substantial battery. The N70 Pro carries a 52-kWh LFP pack good for 351 km of electric range on China’s CLTC cycle and 1,351 km combined. The N70 Max steps up to a 76-kWh ternary battery, 505 km of electric range, and 1,461 km combined, with dual motors producing 310 kW and a 5.5-second sprint to 100 km/h. The big N90 Max — 5,285 mm long on a 3,080 mm wheelbase — manages 464 km electric and a headline 1,705 km of total range.

Charging is a strong suit for an EREV: 20 to 80 percent takes 18 minutes, and Xiaomi claims a 15-minute top-up can add as much as 310 km of range to the N70 Max. The tech stack is flagship-grade too, with Xiaomi’s HAD driver-assistance system running on Nvidia’s 700-TOPS Drive Thor chip, one LiDAR on N70 models and two (plus a 4D millimeter-wave radar) on the N90, and a HyperOS cabin powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

A Milestone — and a Mountain Still to Climb

The 800,000-delivery milestone caps a remarkable 29-month run, with monthly deliveries holding above 30,000 for five consecutive months from April through August. But the pace still leaves Xiaomi with work to do: through August it had delivered 246,322 vehicles in 2026, just 44.8 percent of its 550,000-unit annual target, meaning more than half the goal must be met in the final four months of the year. The Sky Nomad — Xiaomi’s first departure from pure battery-electric vehicles — is clearly meant to close that gap.

Curiously, Xiaomi is diving into a shrinking pool: retail sales of extended-range vehicles in China fell 15.35 percent year-on-year over the first seven months of 2026. Xiaomi is betting its brand pull and spec sheet can defy the segment’s slide.

What It Means

Ten thousand deposits in four minutes says the demand playbook that made the SU7 a phenomenon still works, and pricing two variants below their own pre-sale numbers shows Xiaomi would rather sacrifice margin than momentum. The deeper story is strategic: with an EREV lineup, Xiaomi can chase family buyers in regions where charging is thin — exactly the profile of many markets it plans to enter when its European push begins in 2027. If the Sky Nomad ramps as fast as its order book filled, that 550,000 target may look less like a stretch and more like a checkpoint.

Sources: CnEVPost (launch details), CnEVPost (order data), ChinaEVHome