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- Apple pulled the plug on its electric-vehicle project last month.
- One of its biggest Chinese smartphone rivals just started selling its own EV.
- Xiaomi launched the SU7 in dozens of Chinese cities on Thursday.
Last month, Apple called it quits on its electric-vehicle dream. One of the iPhone maker's biggest rivals in China is showing it how it's done.
The Beijing-based smartphone maker Xiaomi launched its first line of EVs, the Speed Ultra 7 — known as the SU7 — on Thursday in a lavish event in Beijing.