Xiaomi EV records the first officially certified autonomous-driving lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany on June 23, 2026, using a Xiaomi YU7 GT.

The electric vehicle was said to have completed the 20.8 km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit without a human driver with a lap time of 10:29.483.

The Nürburgring created a new official AUTONOMOUS DRIVING category under ELECTRIC VEHICLES after the test. The lap covered 73 corners, about 300 meters of elevation change, and varied road conditions.

Xiaomi said its end-to-end autonomous driving architecture used real-time perception and dynamic prediction to coordinate steering, braking, and power delivery at high speed and load to maintain stability.

The company reported it launched Xiaomi HAD in 2024 and in March 2026 introduced a new vehicle platform based on its Xiaomi XLA architecture and MiMo-Embodied foundation model.

Through the Nürburgring project, Xiaomi gathered data to refine vehicle dynamics modeling, control strategies, and safety redundancy mechanisms.