The Tesla Mannequin Y was the best-selling automobile in China final yr, promoting 480,309 items. Not like the Mannequin 3 sedan, Y SUV gross sales held nicely towards China’s EV competitors. Nevertheless, regardless of launching an up to date model in January this yr, gross sales are down 24% thus far this yr, and extra competitors is rising.
4 Chinese language SUVs can be launched within the subsequent 4 weeks to compete with the US automaker’s SUV. Beginning this week, on June 26, essentially the most critical Mannequin Y challenger will hit the Chinese language market—the Xiaomi YU7. Lei Jun, Xiaomi CEO, is just not holding again and publicly compares the YU7 with Mannequin Y, claiming it has a lot better specs.
YU7 is almost 5 meters lengthy, with a 3-meter wheelbase and a 2,315 kg curb weight. It’s going to have a 760 km CLTC vary and as much as 508 kW motor energy. It’s going to function 800V charging, and Xiaomi claims it will possibly do 10% to 80% SoC in 12 minutes. The value is anticipated to be round 250,000 yuan (34,900 USD).
The Xiaomi YU7 SUV is Xiaomi’s second mannequin after the SU7 sedan, which launched in March 2024. Lei Jun revealed in January this yr that SU7 took 9 months to outsell Mannequin 3 in China.
In 2025, the SU7 is clearly outselling Mannequin 3 in China with 132,467 delivered items (January – Might) in contrast with Mannequin 3’s 75,283 items.
One other critical competitor to Mannequin Y comes from Volkswagen-backed Xpeng. The G7 SUV will launch within the first week of July, Xpeng introduced with out specifying the date.
G7 began pre-orders on June 11 and acquired 10,000 reservations in 46 minutes. The presale worth was 235,800 yuan (32,500 USD), however it is not uncommon for Chinese language automakers to decrease the ultimate worth upon launch.
The Xpeng G7 is a mid-to-large SUV with 4892/1925/1655 mm dimensions and a wheelbase of two,890 mm.
The Xpeng G7 is at the moment RWD-only and has a single electrical motor that produces 218 kW (292 hp). It may be powered by two CALB-made LFP battery choices: 68.5 kWh and 80.8 kWh. The CLTC vary lies between 602 km and 702 km on 18-inch wheels and 577 km or 677 km on 20-inch wheels.
One other competitor is Shanghai-based Nio. The corporate introduced that the second automobile below its entry-level model, Onvo, will launch early subsequent month – onvo L90. In accordance with Lei Xing, the launch will happen within the second week of July.
Onvo L90 is a big SUV with six or seven seats, and it’ll attempt to eat lunch of the upcoming 7-seater Mannequin Y and different massive SUVs from Li Auto or Huawei’s Aito, comparable to Li L9 or Aito M9.
Onvo at the moment sells a single automobile, the mid-to-large SUV L60, which launched in September final yr. Nevertheless, its gross sales are past expectations. In accordance with the unique purpose, it was presupposed to hit 20,000 month-to-month gross sales in March. In Might, the corporate offered solely 6,281 items. L60 begins at 206,900 yuan (28,850 USD) in China.
Lastly, within the third week of July, Li Auto’s i8 all-electric SUV will launch in China. It will likely be firm’s second all-eletric automobile, after Li Mega MPV launched in March 2024. The Beijing-based automaker centered solely on EREVs till final yr.
The i8 can be AWD and have two e-motors with a mixed energy of 400 kW (536 hp). It’s going to additionally function 5C charging and an NMC battery from CATL.
Curiously, Lei Jun shared particulars in regards to the launches of Xpeng G7, Onvo L90, and Li i8 on his Weibo and wished them luck and good gross sales. He didn’t want Mannequin Y any luck.
In China, Mannequin Y begins at 263,500 yuan (36,740 USD) for the RWD model with a 62.5 kWh battery good for 593 km CLTC vary. Tesla will reportedly launch a longer-wheelbase three-row model of the Mannequin Y in Q4 2025 in China, with 6 or 7 seat choices. Regardless of reclaiming the title for best-selling SUV for Might, it offered 124,643 items in China in 2025 thus far (Jan-Might), down 24% from final yr.
