Lei Jun, the cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi, unveiled the company’s first electric vehicle on Thursday, marking the Chinese smartphone maker’s entry into the country's highly competitive EV market.

Xiaomi has only been in the EV business for a year, and it's already sold 200,000 cars to Chinese drivers.

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Lei Jun, the billionaire cofounder of Chinese tech giant Xiaomi, launched an electric SUV that could be a strong competitor to Tesla’s Model Y in China, which sent Xiaomi’s Hong Kong-listed shares as ...

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Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun on Wednesday marked the roll-out of the firm's 100,000th electric vehicle (EV) from the assembly line with a social-media post of himself ...

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has been called China's Steve Jobs. Now he's got his eyes on the EV market in ways Apple could never pull off.

Like Apple, Xiaomi has invested billions into getting an electric vehicle to market. The smartphone maker debuted its first car in December.

Lei’s optimism contrasts with renewed worries that China’s EV sector is about to sink into another price war.