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Two important milestones were just celebrated in China’s growing EV sector.

On November 21, 2025, XPeng Motors celebrated a double achievement at its Guangzhou plant: the production of its 1 millionth vehicle and the first customer deliveries of the X9 Extended-Range EV. With this, XPeng became the first pure-EV brand in China to reach the one-million-vehicle production milestone.

Just one day earlier, on November 20, Xiaomi Auto rolled its 500,000th vehicle off the line at its Beijing Xiaomi Super Factory. Xiaomi achieved this in less than 20 months since the SU7 went on sale in March 2024 and with only two models (SU7 and YU7) in its lineup.

These feats underscore the extraordinary speed of both companies and their heavy reliance on high volume Gigacasting production to scale production efficiently.

XPeng Motors

• First 500,000 vehicles: 82 months

• Next 500,000 vehicles: 14 months

2025 has been a breakout year for XPeng. From January to October, the company delivered 355,209 vehicles, a staggering 190% year-on-year increase, far outpacing the industry. Overseas deliveries reached 34,712 units in the same period (+106.7% YoY), also thanks to two new assembly facilities outside of China.

XPeng was an early and aggressive adopter of Gigacastings. It uses 7,000 ton, 12,000 ton, and 16,000 ton die casting islands to produce both front and rear underbody structures for all of its high volume models and nearly all of its one million vehicles produced to date. Xpeng also retrofitted the P7 with Gigacastings during their latest restyling.

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Xiaomi

Xiaomi needed only 20 months to hit its first 500,000 units, a pace that rivals every modern car manufacturing facility in the world. In the first three quarters of 2025, Xiaomi delivered over 260,000 vehicles, with monthly volumes exceeding 40,000 units in both September and October.

Like XPeng, Xiaomi has made Gigacasting a cornerstone of its manufacturing strategy. Both the SU7 and the newer YU7 feature a large rear underbody Gigacastings.

Xiaomi's Super Factory utilizes a self developed die casting aluminum alloy and die casting machines with a clamping force of 9,100 tons. Currently, four 9,100 ton machines are in production, and a fifth has already arrived at the factory, expected to be installed and put into production by the end of the year.

The expansion of the Gigacasting production capacity, or as Xiaomi calls it “Hypercasting”, is expected to serve the new vehicle which Xiaomi intends to present in 2026, likely a large SUV with an extended range EV powertrain, referred on Chinese social media as “YU9”.

Why Gigacasting Matters

Gigacasting replaces 70 to 200 stamped and welded parts with a single massive aluminum casting, reducing costs, welds, factory space and assembly time while increasing the torsional rigidity of the vehicle.

Tesla introduced this body architecture in 2020 with a 6,000 ton die casting machine for the Model Y rear floor, since then, millions of Model Ys are driving everyday all around the world.

Chinese manufacturers instantly saw the potential and installed more than one hundred of such machines up to 16,000 tons of clamping force, and made Gigacasting the default for every ambitious new EV platform.

Tesla, XPeng and Xiaomi are just three of the successful examples of high volume Gigacasting implementation. Find out more on The Gigacasting Database.

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