Xiaomi Wants Its Smart Cars on European Roads by 2027, Linking Them to Your Home

Xiaomi is preparing to take its ambitions beyond smartphones and home electronics, with the Chinese technology giant planning to bring its electric vehicles to European roads in 2027.

The company used IFA 2026 in Berlin to showcase its broader vision, presenting its cars as another part of an interconnected ecosystem that links smartphones, vehicles and smart-home devices. Euronews reported that Xiaomi calls the strategy “Human × Car × Home.”

Rather than treating the car as a standalone product, Xiaomi wants it to become another control point for the connected home. During its IFA demonstration, the company showed how people could use the car to control devices at home, including adjusting air conditioning and opening or closing connected curtains.

The company says its HyperOS operating system and AI will provide the technological link between these devices. The longer-term goal is for AI to use contextual information to coordinate activity across the user's car, smartphone and home, potentially making the ecosystem work with less manual intervention.

Germany could be Xiaomi’s European starting point

Xiaomi is already laying the groundwork for its European vehicle push. At its IFA press conference on September 3, the company signed letters of intent with eight German automotive retail groups, including Emil Frey Germany, Ernst Dello Group, Autohaus Dinnebier, Hahn Automobile, LUEG Mobility Group, Fett & Wirtz, SPT Avior and Penske-Jacobs.

Germany is expected to serve as a starting point, with Xiaomi planning similar partnerships across other European markets.

The company is also committing significant resources to its wider technology ambitions. Xiaomi says it plans to invest more than €24 billion globally between 2026 and 2030 in research and development, covering areas including AI, operating systems, semiconductors, intelligent vehicles, robotics and smart manufacturing.

Xiaomi's push into cars represents a major expansion for a company still primarily associated with smartphones and consumer electronics. If its European rollout goes ahead as planned, the company will be competing not only in electric vehicles but also in the increasingly important race to build connected ecosystems around consumers' daily lives.

And that may ultimately be Xiaomi's bigger bet: not simply selling Europeans an electric car, but making the car another smart device in their home.