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Xiaomi YU7 GT sets first driverless lap record at the Nurburgring
The Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany is famous for testing human skill and vehicle endurance. But the times are changing, and the track hosted an unusual record attempt that required no human skill at all. Xiaomi announced that its YU7 GT electric SUV completed the first automated lap at the circuit without a driver.
The autonomous YU7 GT recorded a lap time of 10 minutes and 29.483 seconds. For a racetrack that stretches 20.8 km and has more than 70 corners, navigating the entire course safely is a difficult task for a person, let alone for a computer. The track is a dynamic environment where artificial intelligence must handle rapid weight transfers, tire slip angles, and precise braking decisions in milliseconds.
To understand the meaning of this lap time, we must look at the results through two different lenses. For an experienced track amateur or a hobbyist driving mid-tier sports cars, a ten-minute lap is quite relaxed. These drivers generally look to break the nine-minute barrier, with the more ambitious ones targeting eight minutes. So for now, human racers do not need to worry about losing their track privileges to robots just yet.
Cautious first-time drivers taking their daily commuter cars out for a safe lap during public days at Nurburgring, typically finish in around 11 minutes. The AI managed to match this pace perfectly. It completed the lap safely, proving that autonomous software can handle basic high-speed vehicle dynamics, even if it drives like a nervous sightseer.
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The Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany is famous for testing human skill and vehicle endurance. But the times are changing, and the track hosted an unusual record attempt that required no human skill at all. Xiaomi announced that its YU7 GT electric SUV completed the first automated lap at the circuit without a driver.
The autonomous YU7 GT recorded a lap time of 10 minutes and 29.483 seconds. For a racetrack that stretches 20.8 km and has more than 70 corners, navigating the entire course safely is a difficult task for a person, let alone for a computer. The track is a dynamic environment where artificial intelligence must handle rapid weight transfers, tire slip angles, and precise braking decisions in milliseconds.
To understand the meaning of this lap time, we must look at the results through two different lenses. For an experienced track amateur or a hobbyist driving mid-tier sports cars, a ten-minute lap is quite relaxed. These drivers generally look to break the nine-minute barrier, with the more ambitious ones targeting eight minutes. So for now, human racers do not need to worry about losing their track privileges to robots just yet.
Cautious first-time drivers taking their daily commuter cars out for a safe lap during public days at Nurburgring, typically finish in around 11 minutes. The AI managed to match this pace perfectly. It completed the lap safely, proving that autonomous software can handle basic high-speed vehicle dynamics, even if it drives like a nervous sightseer.
Xiaomi YU7 GT sets first driverless lap record at the Nurburgring
The autonomous Xiaomi YU7 GT has completed the world's first driverless lap at the Nurburgring circuit, matching the pace of a casual human driver.
www.arenaev.com
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Xiaomi Sky Nomad N90 moves from a teaser to a real family SUV in twenty-four hours
Yesterday, the auto industry was trying to figure out what Xiaomi meant when it teased a new product name called Sky Nomad. Today, the Chinese smartphone maker removed all the mystery by revealing the final look at its first full-size SUV, the Sky Nomad N90. The quick twenty-four-hour sequence marks a completely new chapter for a company that only started building passenger vehicles a short time ago. Instead of sticking with the low, aerodynamic body styles that defined its early EVs, Xiaomi is now chasing the profitable family-hauler market. That’s a sharp one-eighty in design, packaging, and mechanical philosophy.
The biggest shift involves how this vehicle gets its power. Xiaomi previously focused entirely on pure battery-powered electric cars, but the Sky Nomad N90 is an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV. It relies on two electric motors to spin the wheels, but it also has a 1.5-liter turbocharged gasoline engine under the hood. That engine operates only as an on-board generator to keep the battery charged. Many Chinese drivers prefer these types of EVs because they offer zero-emission city driving without the fear of running out of power on remote highways.
Xiaomi sources the battery packs for the Sky Nomad N90 from domestic suppliers Sunwoda and CALB. The pack holds more than 70 kWh of energy, and provides an electric-only driving range between 400 km and 500 km. When the gasoline generator automatically activates to provide extra electricity, the total combined range of the vehicle exceeds 1,500 km.
The design of the Sky Nomad N90 abandons the athletic shapes of Xiaomi’s previous electric cars. Designers opted for a very upright, boxy profile that prioritizes inner room over aerodynamics. Up front, the blocky headlights look like a rugged evolution of the company's older "waterdrop" styling elements. Around the back, the looped-lightbar taillights look similar to those found on the premium Zeekr 9X. A prominent pod sits on top of the front windshield, holding an advanced LiDAR sensor that feeds data into the vehicle's automated driving systems.
www.arenaev.com
Yesterday, the auto industry was trying to figure out what Xiaomi meant when it teased a new product name called Sky Nomad. Today, the Chinese smartphone maker removed all the mystery by revealing the final look at its first full-size SUV, the Sky Nomad N90. The quick twenty-four-hour sequence marks a completely new chapter for a company that only started building passenger vehicles a short time ago. Instead of sticking with the low, aerodynamic body styles that defined its early EVs, Xiaomi is now chasing the profitable family-hauler market. That’s a sharp one-eighty in design, packaging, and mechanical philosophy.
The biggest shift involves how this vehicle gets its power. Xiaomi previously focused entirely on pure battery-powered electric cars, but the Sky Nomad N90 is an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV. It relies on two electric motors to spin the wheels, but it also has a 1.5-liter turbocharged gasoline engine under the hood. That engine operates only as an on-board generator to keep the battery charged. Many Chinese drivers prefer these types of EVs because they offer zero-emission city driving without the fear of running out of power on remote highways.
Xiaomi sources the battery packs for the Sky Nomad N90 from domestic suppliers Sunwoda and CALB. The pack holds more than 70 kWh of energy, and provides an electric-only driving range between 400 km and 500 km. When the gasoline generator automatically activates to provide extra electricity, the total combined range of the vehicle exceeds 1,500 km.
The design of the Sky Nomad N90 abandons the athletic shapes of Xiaomi’s previous electric cars. Designers opted for a very upright, boxy profile that prioritizes inner room over aerodynamics. Up front, the blocky headlights look like a rugged evolution of the company's older "waterdrop" styling elements. Around the back, the looped-lightbar taillights look similar to those found on the premium Zeekr 9X. A prominent pod sits on top of the front windshield, holding an advanced LiDAR sensor that feeds data into the vehicle's automated driving systems.
Xiaomi Sky Nomad N90 moves from a teaser to a real family SUV in twenty-four hours
The newly unveiled Xiaomi Sky Nomad N90 is a large, range-extended family SUV with a clever interior and front seats that can rotate a full 180 degrees.
www.arenaev.com
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