China’s smartphone maker Xiaomi has hinted at plans to build electric vehicles as tech groups increasingly look to cars as next-generation smart devices.
In a regulatory filing in India publicised on Tuesday, Xiaomi said it may sell “all types of vehicles for transport, conveyance and other transport equipment, whether based on electricity or any other motive or mechanical power, including the components, spare parts” in India.
The company has not announced any concrete plans to make electric vehicles in its native China and said it was not currently seeking any licences or permission to produce them. “We have nothing in the pipeline,” said one company employee.