At the time of registration, the division had about 300 employees and a capital of ten billion yuan (approximately CZK 34 billion). He is now hiring more workers, but it is not yet clear whether he will manufacture the cars himself or through a partnership with a carmaker, Reuters reported.
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Xiaomi announced in March that it plans to invest ten billion dollars (approximately 219 billion CZK) in the production of electric cars within ten years. Lej Jun said at the time that Xiaomi’s entry into the automotive industry would be his last major business project.
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In the summer, Xiaomi announced that it had agreed to take over Deepmotion, a company that focuses on autonomous control technology. Xiaomi will pay $ 77.4 million (approximately CZK 1.7 billion) for this acquisition and promises to strengthen its research and development activities.
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In recent years, companies that have so far operated outside the automotive industry have become increasingly interested in the electric car market. The Taiwanese company Foxconn, which is known primarily as a contract supplier of consumer electronics and manufactures, among other things, iPhone smartphones for the American company Apple, on Monday, for example, presented its first three prototypes of electric cars.
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