XPENGTech · Field notes
The journal.
Technical writing and measured observations on XPENG vehicles — battery chemistry, 800V charging telemetry, XOS software, and autonomous driving.
7 November 2026
Your XPeng Logs Every Second of Your Driving. Here's How to Get It Back.
XPeng's EU Data Act portal hands owners a rolling 30 days of their own car — around 340 MB of CSV, one row per second. Three free tools read it, and you can authorise someone else to pull it for you.
7 November 2026
XPeng Filed an LFP All-Wheel-Drive P7. That's a Price Play, Not a Power Play.
China's 413th vehicle-approval batch contains an XPeng P7 with the cheaper LFP chemistry under the fast drivetrain: an EVE Power pack, dual motors, the same 2,220 kg kerb weight. The motors are unchanged, the filing gives no range or price - but it is the clearest sign yet that XPeng intends to sell a four-wheel-drive P7 below today's 243,800 yuan.
6 November 2026
XPeng Registered 6,832 Cars Abroad in October. Germany Was a Fifth of Them.
A Weibo registration digest puts XPeng's October overseas volume at 6,832 cars across 26 of the 44 markets it tracks: Germany 1,380, Norway 932, France 741, Australia 620. The mix matters more than the total - XPeng takes 5.9% of Norway's new-car market and 0.5% of Germany's - and the figure is a different instrument from the 13,326 overseas deliveries reported a week earlier.
6 November 2026
XPeng's EIS Chip Was a Safety Feature. It Turned Out to Be a Charging One.
XPeng's powertrain chief finally explained what the EIS battery chip does, and the answer was a stopwatch: a MONA L05 charged 10% to 80% in 15 minutes 44 seconds at -6 C, about a minute off its own laboratory figure. Behind it is a cell-core temperature estimate accurate to 2 C across the full state of charge - a sensor built to catch failing packs, now being used to charge a cold one faster.
5 November 2026
MONA Is Half of XPeng. The Spinoff Rumour Is About a Shop Sign.
A Weibo post says XPeng's MONA is 'really going independent'. What is actually documented: one MONA-branded store, standalone stores planned in selected cities from 2027, and a president who says independence is feasible - but no brand, no entity, no filing. Why the case for a split is strong, why the 2024 precedent says otherwise, and what would actually settle it.
4 November 2026
A 4B Model Beat GPT-6 Astra at Perception. XPeng Gave It Away.
XPeng's GroundingPI scores 73.68 against GPT-6 Astra's 71.54 across 34 perception benchmarks - but the model shipped to Hugging Face five weeks before the announcement. What the benchmark means, the 50%-data claim that matters more, the Kimi K3 licence detail the statement left out, and what it does not mean for your car.
1 November 2026
XPeng's Record October Is an Export Story, Not a China Story
XPeng delivered 50,237 vehicles in October, its first month above fifty thousand and 19.57% up year on year - but domestic volume fell 103 units while overseas deliveries jumped 166% to 13,326. Almost all of the growth, and more than a quarter of the month, came from exports. A month-by-month look at 2026, the 60,000-a-month target, and why the shares hit a 52-week low three days earlier.
31 October 2026
Robotaxi and Consumer L4: A 2027–2030 Timeline Worth Stress-Testing
Part 3: the post's 2027–2028 / 2028–2029 / 2029–2030 timeline for Robotaxi and consumer L4, restated, then stress-tested — what has to be true about permits, safety data, cost per km and regulation, and what to watch to know whether the forecast is holding.
31 October 2026
Autonomous Driving Is the Next Growth Era — for a Very Few Players
Part 2 of the series: 彦山堂's counter-thesis — the next five years are not a replacement market but a new autonomous-driving era, and only a few companies (Tesla, XPeng) can scale Robotaxi and consumer L4. Plus the new demand that would create, and the counterpoints.
31 October 2026
The Smartphone Analogy Won't Predict the Next Five Years of Cars
A Weibo post by 彦山堂 takes the standard 'EVs will follow smartphones' argument and then undercuts it: the comparison is loose on regulation, capital and what a car's core function is. Part 1 of a three-part series on where the next five years of car growth might come from.
29 October 2026
XPeng's MONA L05 Opens at 139,800 Yuan. Australia Is Not on the List Yet.
XPeng's third MONA model, the five-seat L05, launched in China from a limited-time 139,800 yuan, with six variants across BEV and range-extender powertrains - VLA Lite on Max, the full second-generation VLA only on Ultra SE. The first 5,000 near-stock cars were reported sold out and deliveries start 1 November; the federal ROVER register still has no L05 approval, so Australia has no date, price or specification.
29 October 2026
Inside XPENG's Paris 'Revenge': Cloud, Edge and the Australian Deployment
The Weibo essay calling Paris XPENG's 'revenge' is really an argument about compute: a 72B cloud teacher distilled into a car that decides in under 80 ms without a network, and an adaptation recipe of two weeks per country. Two later parts, added to this article, survey the rivals' infrastructure problem and predict the 2027-28 endgame between Tesla's AI5 and XPeng's next Turing.
28 October 2026
Whose Cheese Did XPeng Move? Inside the Pile-On Theory
A reposted essay by a Harbin car dealer, amplified by commentator 姬永锋, argues XPeng's October pile-on is structural: Paris, the VW software report and a city-wide L4 licence threaten a rival that sells ADAS rather than cars. The events check out; the coordination claim does not. The essay also concedes real problems, and the record supports those too.
28 October 2026
XPeng's IRON Robot Gets a Robot-Specific Solid-State Battery
XPeng Group vice-president Gu Jie told SAECCE 2026 that the IRON robot's solid-state battery has entered small-batch production, with the robot pre-SOP. XPeng calls it the first battery designed specifically for a humanoid: high energy density, rebuilt safety standards and a thermal-runaway barrier. No energy density, cell chemistry or supplier has been published, and cars are not mentioned. Mass production stays targeted for the end of 2026.
27 October 2026
XPeng's Guangzhou Line: One Car Every 102 Seconds
A Guangdong TV film shot inside XPeng's Guangzhou plant puts a car on the line every 102 seconds, and supply-chain watcher 烟隐烟隐 says the Wuhan plant where the L03 now builds is already faster on two shifts. The L05, which launches in China on 29 October, is expected to lift Guangzhou's pace again.
27 October 2026
MONA L05: 5,000 Units Built Before Its 29 October Launch
Two days before its China launch on 29 October, Weibo supply-chain accounts say the MONA L05 has a dedicated new production line at XPeng's Guangzhou plant and about 5,000 units already built, with one commentator expecting the fastest order-lockers to be allocated cars the same night and delivered within days.
27 October 2026
VW Weighs Using XPeng-Built Software in Europe
Manager Magazin reports that Volkswagen is considering using the electronic architecture it co-developed with XPeng - already running in VW's China cars - for roughly 75% of its next-generation Volkswagen, Skoda and CUPRA models in Europe, and that the Chinese stack is billions of euros cheaper than Rivian's software.
26 October 2026
XPeng Yoyo Robotaxi Wins a City-Wide Operating Licence in Guangzhou
XPeng Group has been granted Guangzhou's intelligent connected vehicle demonstration-operation qualification, allowing L4 Robotaxi demonstration operations across the whole city. Its Yoyo service moves from an invitation-only beta in specified areas to a city-wide permit, though XPeng will keep issuing invitation codes and has published no fleet size, fares or staffing. The substance is operations: dispatch, utilisation, service cost and exception handling.
25 October 2026
XPeng's G9L Takes Five Stars in China's EV Fire-Safety Index
XPeng says its G9L has won five stars in C-EVFI, China's EV fire-safety index, run by the CMVR testing institute. The protocol tests what crash ratings miss: two hours without fire after thermal runaway, smoke control, door release after power loss. We explain the tests, the film, XPeng's separate seven-stage crash-and-burn run, and why an 80% five-star rate limits what the badge proves. No score sheet has been published.
24 October 2026
XPeng Tops the DACH EV Satisfaction Study Again, With Tesla Second
XPeng has finished first in USCALE's EV Satisfaction Study for a second year: 82% of its owners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland would recommend the brand, against 53% across 23 brands. Tesla rose from sixth to second on 79%, with Skoda and Porsche at 67% and Opel last at 19%. We set out how the 4,004-driver survey works, what XPeng scored badly on (route planning), and the caveats that matter: a self-selecting sample, unpublished per-brand sizes, and a German fleet only months old.
23 October 2026
XPeng Wins Forbes China's 'Most Employee-Favoured Employer' Award
XPeng Group has been named a 2026 Forbes China most employee-favoured employer. It is a sub-list of the Forbes China Best Employers programme, not the main ranking, and the methodology is worth knowing: 40% employer questionnaire, 40% anonymous employee vote, 20% audit. We set out the weighting and the wider results, XPeng's own six-goods care scheme, and the survey finding that workers use AI more but believe in it less - the claim XPeng's AI-heavy pitch has to keep earning.
23 October 2026
The 460,409 km XPeng X9 Tests at 91% Battery Health
The 460,409 km XPeng X9 has been through the used-car inspection: a service order records 91% battery health at 460,349 km, with normal cell voltage spread and about 423 km of range on a full charge claimed. The owner, a Shanghai cross-city operator, says he saved 300,000+ yuan in fuel and bought a second X9. The result set off a trending hashtag arguing 460,000 km is nothing special for Chinese ride-hail EVs, especially LFP packs - while the 91% is the part that is.
22 October 2026
XPeng's MONA Product Manager Apologises for the Word 'Lao Deng'
The MONA product manager who fronted the L05's 15 October pre-sale launch has apologised for repeatedly using 'lao deng' - internet slang for an old man - on stage, including about her own bosses, while urging the audience to reject 'lao-deng taste' in design. Her 3:26 video concedes the public setting, says the target was fixed thinking rather than age, and asks that the row not colour views of the car. No company-level statement found; the L05 launches 29 October. English subtitles included.
22 October 2026
XPeng's IRON Gets the Car's VLA 2.0 Brain and Reads Your Next Move
XPeng's robot lab series shows IRON taking a handshake, a fist bump and a high-five with no voice commands, and switching arms when the person changes the gesture mid-movement. The claim behind it: the same second-generation VLA model as the L05's assisted driving, running on-device on the robot, re-reasoning every 0.2 seconds and predicting six seconds of possible human action - with a probability split across five likely gestures. Company footage, R&D build, one tester.
22 October 2026
He Xiaopeng: Skip L3, L4 in Late 2028, Three Metrics for the Second Half
He Xiaopeng used the WICV 2026 plenary panel to argue the industry should skip L3 and plan L2 and L4 together: L4 technology mature in late 2028, policy between 2028 and 2032, Robotaxi first because it demands a 100-fold safety factor. His three metrics for the second half are safe collision mileage, all-scenario coverage and the share of users willing to pay.
22 October 2026
Inside the MONA L05: the Product Manager's Own Walkaround
A 23-minute walkaround of the XPeng MONA L05 with the man who runs the programme, translated from Weibo: why the interior's silver skyline could not become grey, seat pressure measured against a Mercedes GLC, 100 W USB-C ports, a magnetic rear screen with light that follows the picture, mic-free karaoke, and a blunt account of how XPeng does customer research — including the 7.8 score a car must hit to pass review.
21 October 2026
XPeng's Own Test: MONA L05 vs a Mercedes GLC on Six Dynamic Conditions
XPeng's media test drive leaked a 3:20 proving-ground comparison: the MONA L05 against a 300,000-RMB-class luxury SUV (its dimensions and badge identify a Mercedes-Benz GLC) over three items and six conditions - ride comfort, steering agility, anti-motion-sickness. The L05 is ticked on all six, turns in 5.4 m against 5.68 m, and does a one-shot U-turn at a 4.3 m lane width. The video carries XPeng's own disclaimer: its test facility, non-standard conditions, comparison only.
21 October 2026
MONA L05: 587 km, Zero Takeovers, and a Pre-Sale Price of 169,800 RMB
XPeng has published a 5:40 video of a MONA L05 running Wenzhou to Shanghai on VLA 2.0 with zero takeovers - 587 km in three legs (73.8, 223.9, 289.3 km) through national roads, country lanes and night-time city traffic. It is the assisted-driving stage of Yiche's 8,000 km Golden Outer Ring relay. The same week brought the official pre-sale ladder: five trims, 169,800-191,800 RMB, launch 29 October - 16,000 RMB above the leaked slide.
19 October 2026
XPeng Is Putting Google Play in Its Cars. It Won't Say Which Ones.
XPENG will bring Google Play into its cars from early 2027 - a real differentiator, and the follow-on to the Google Maps Auto SDK. But the release names no models and no software gate, even though July's Maps release named the L03, the G9L's Paris material already promised Play, and XPeng Norway had told BilNorge that the G6, G9 and P7+ get it as upgrades. We set out what was withheld, how the vacuum filled, and what the paragraph should have said.
19 October 2026
Two Flat Tyres at 160 km/h: XPeng's L05 Blowout Test, Uncut
XPeng's MONA product-line head and reviewer Wang Ziru rode through a 160 km/h blowout test in a MONA L05 with five people, nine ballasted suitcases and roughly 500 kg aboard - both tyres on one side, then into a corner, in one continuous take. We look at the conditions XPeng published, the M03 programme that preceded it, the claim that blowout stability is now standard from the L03 up, and the measurements the video still does not show.
17 October 2026
The GX Sets Sail: 3,000 Middle East Orders Before XPeng Has Announced a Price
XPeng has begun large-scale GX shipments to the Middle East and Africa, saying the Middle East ordered more than 3,000 of the flagship SUV before any overseas price was announced. It lands on top of a 7,224-unit September for the GX and the group's first month above 10,000 overseas sales - but the announcement gives no shipment size, destinations, delivery timing or price.
16 October 2026
Inside the MONA L05's Infotainment: XOS 6.3.0, Screen by Screen
A 59-minute single-take walkthrough of the XPeng MONA L05's XOS 6.3.0 infotainment has been published on Weibo: nine scene modes from camping to conveyor car-wash, a 14-point cloud-massage seat with an AI driver's seat that re-trims itself around your posture, a Dock of ten slots expandable to sixteen, VLA 2.0 Ultra on two Turing chips with parking-spot-to-parking-spot driving, and sentry clips stored in the head unit rather than on a USB drive. We go through the hour section by section.
15 October 2026
XPeng's Export Target for 2027: Close to 300,000 Cars
Wang Fengying, XPeng's president, gave a rare interview at the Paris show: an export target of 200,000 to close to 300,000 vehicles in 2027, globalisation as the second growth curve with Europe as the first battlefield, all future models developed as global cars, overseas profitability better than domestic, and possible standalone MONA stores. She also argues Europe will be where assisted driving lands fastest. We set out the plan and the tension inside it.
15 October 2026
The MONA L05's Interior: 300,000-RMB Kit, Under 200,000-RMB Car
XPeng has revealed the MONA L05's interior a day before pre-sales open on 15 October: 14-point massage and zero-gravity front seats, a 17.3-inch 3K centre screen, a 17.3-inch roof entertainment screen, a 26.8-inch head-up display, 20 speakers and an electric sunshade - each slide labelled '300,000-RMB-class equipment' on a car expected under 200,000 RMB. We set out the feature list, what is trim-dependent, and the price question still unanswered.
14 October 2026
XPeng Opens Its Technology Stack to Global Partners
At the Paris Automotive Summit, where he was the only Chinese automaker CEO on the schedule, He Xiaopeng launched XPENG AI ENGINEERING: the vehicle platform, E/E architecture, assisted driving, AI BOX, chips, battery, e-drive and toolchain, plus the physical AI ecosystem of robots, Robotaxi, flying cars and Turing chips, offered to global partners. He also said Robotaxi talks with leading European mobility platforms are far advanced. We set out what is for sale, and what is missing.
14 October 2026
XPeng's NGP Takes On the Arc de Triomphe Roundabout
He Xiaopeng has published a four-and-a-half-minute video of the G9L driving through the Arc de Triomphe roundabout with NGP engaged - no lane markings, no signals, twelve avenues, France's priority-to-the-right rule and pedestrians in the road. He frames it as the third step after Germany and the Netherlands. We look at what the footage shows, why the junction is a fair test, and the attempt and intervention data it does not include.
13 October 2026
XPeng's CEO Tried Tesla's FSD in Paris. Here's His Verdict
He Xiaopeng rode in a Tesla with FSD engaged in Paris during the show's Autonomous Lab and posted his verdict: very smooth, both systems have made architectural breakthroughs, each has strengths, and XPeng's model is larger with stronger generalisation. We look at what the four-minute video shows, why the specific claim matches what XPeng's engineers told Bloomberg the same week, and why a CEO's comparison is the most interested one available.
13 October 2026
Why XPeng's Overseas Cars Run Google Maps Instead of Its Own
A Weibo walkthrough of the G9L's overseas car system says XPeng's Google Maps integration is the first in Asia-Pacific and required system-level work under strict data rules. Confirmed: the L03 is the first Asia-Pacific production model with Google Maps Auto SDK, keeping XPeng's own interface over Google's routing and data, outside China. The compliance detail is unconfirmed, and the world first was Rivian in July 2025. XPeng ties the map layer to NGP's overseas deployment.
13 October 2026
Two Weeks Per Country: XPeng's Plan to Bring NGP to Europe
Liu Xianming, who heads XPeng's General Intelligence Center, told Bloomberg that XPeng adapted its driving system from one European country to another in about two weeks, using a ten-thousandth of the training data, and maintains its plan to launch NGP in Europe in 2027 as the full-function version. A Weibo post goes further - Q1 2027, starting in Germany, France and the Netherlands - but credits a German blogger, not XPeng. We separate the two.
13 October 2026
XPeng's European Bottleneck Is Capacity, Not Demand
At the Paris show He Xiaopeng said XPeng targets 1 million global sales a year by end-2030, half in Europe, and that the key is finding ways to build more cars there. XPeng is weighing more capacity with Magna in Graz or a plant elsewhere in Europe - new build or a local partner - with a decision in the coming months and no country confirmed. We set out the numbers behind it, the G9L's new European prices, and why local content rules are driving the move.
11 October 2026
China Bans Fully Hidden Door Handles on New Cars From 2027
Four Chinese ministries have proposed banning fully hidden door handles and folding or flexible displays, with new filings affected from 1 January 2027 and existing approvals needing supplementary validation by July. The mandatory standard behind it, GB 48001-2026, already takes effect in January 2027 and requires mechanically operable handles with at least a 60x25x20 mm hand space, phased to all models by 2029. We set out what changes, for whom, and when.
11 October 2026
Reviewers Tried XPeng's VLA 2.0 in Paris. Here's What They Said
The Paris Motor Show's Autonomous Lab, the public-road test-ride programme that only Tesla and XPeng joined, has produced its first reviewer verdicts. A Chinese XPeng-focused reviewer has compiled quotes from three overseas testers - Devin Olsen saying NGP 'easily rivals V14 and in some places is even better', plus reactions from Chubby and David Moss - alongside four behavioural notes from Paris footage. We set out what the quotes show and why the curation matters.
11 October 2026
The MONA L05's Leaked Price List Is Unverified. The Car Isn't.
XPeng has now made the MONA L05 official: its own teaser names the car and positions it as "young people's first large five-seat SUV", coming soon. The leaked pre-sale price slide from 11 October is still unverified - its 525/625 km figures conflict with the MIIT filing's 71.1 kWh pack and 615-660 km CLTC tiers - but the car is well documented: MONA's first mid-size SUV, a 2,940 mm wheelbase, BEV and EREV, and a Q4 launch confirmed by He Xiaopeng.
11 October 2026
A Broken Brake Pedal Exposed a Gap in China's Car Standards
Dongchedi tested three Zunjie V800 luxury MPVs in 100-0 km/h braking and reported the brake pedal bracket fracturing in all three, topping Weibo's trending list. The bracket is a glass-filled plastic part, and the dispute turns on a gap between China's quantitative industry standard and national standards that set no load or material requirement. Within 48 hours CATARC surveyed automakers, four ministries published a draft on design validation, and JAC's shares hit the limit down.
11 October 2026
XPeng Is the First Automaker Mass-Producing ADI's Battery 'ECG'
Analog Devices' own case study names XPeng as the world's first automotive OEM to put ADI's EIS technology into mass production - the 'battery ECG' that measures impedance across many frequencies rather than reporting one resistance number. A Chinese commentator has paired ADI's claim with the company's public CN0510 reference design showing how the measurement is made. We explain what the spectrum reveals, what the bench hardware does not prove, and what has never been published.
11 October 2026
The G9L Gets a Cockpit Brain Shared With XPeng's Robot
Two days before the G9L's Paris launch, XPeng says the car's Turing VLM cockpit agent is the same VLM used by the IRON humanoid robot, giving it one 'brain' for understanding and linked decisions - able to handle fuzzy requests and plan complex trips. The cockpit supports Chinese, English, French and German, with in-cabin and exterior voice, sound-zone localisation and continuous dialogue. We separate the shared-model claim from the multilingual table stakes, and flag what is still unproven.
10 October 2026
XPeng Takes a UN Autonomous-Driving Working Group's Secretary Role
XPeng has been elected Secretary of TF-ESRI, a new task force under the UNECE working party on automated and autonomous vehicles (GRVA), and says it is the first Chinese company to hold a secretary role in the UN's core autonomous-driving regulatory framework. It takes the post representing OICA with CAAM's support, alongside a secretary from SAE; the task force is co-chaired by France and China and is about exchanging scenario information.
10 October 2026
The P7 Becomes the Asia Auto Gymkhana Championship's First Electric Car
XPeng's P7 will be the first all-electric production car used in the Asia Auto Gymkhana Championship, as the designated car for the Hong Kong round on 17-18 October at the Wan Chai waterfront - the series' first Hong Kong event, hosted by the Hong Kong Automobile Association with FIA support. The cars run in factory condition in a uniform-spec category, so the event is a durability and consistency test rather than a comparison with rivals.
9 October 2026
XPeng's P7+ Black Knight Edition: A Trim Package, Priced Like One
XPeng has launched a Black Knight Edition package for the P7+, priced at 10,000 RMB with a limited-time 6,000 RMB offer and available on every trim: Polar Night Black paint, blacked-out badges, 20-inch wheels, red caliper covers, a Lava Grey interior with red belts and stitching. It is an appearance option on a car sold for space and range, and the company's own lifestyle copy - a 'dream garage' that holds the family and you too - is the pitch. China only so far.
8 October 2026
Graz to Paris: The G9L Becomes XPeng's Fourth European-Built Car
XPeng says the G9L has completed its first production trial at Magna's plant in Graz, Austria, making it the fourth XPeng built in Europe after the G6, G9 and P7+ - and the first European-built car will drive 1,324 km from Graz to Paris for its global premiere on 12 October, where European orders open. We look at what a trial build does and does not mean, the Graz plant's premium pedigree, and the numbers behind XPeng's localisation push.
8 October 2026
Why XPeng's Stock Is Lagging Despite the News
XPeng has launched three SUVs since May, started building IRON humanoid robots and named its robotaxi business - yet the stock is at a two-year low, down 53% this year. Vehicle margin is stuck at 12.1% while half of group gross profit comes from one-off Volkswagen technical R&D services, and revenue guidance missed consensus by 15%. The market stopped paying for pre-revenue physical AI in 2026.
8 October 2026
MotorTaxi: A P7 Owner Tests the Single-Turing Distilled Build
MotorGogo's new MotorTaxi series puts the route in the guest's hands. Episode 1: an XPeng owner of nearly five years - a 2021 P7 and a P7+ - drives the XOS 6.3.0 single-Turing distilled build on a route he chose, and compares it with the dual-Orin car he drives daily. Better main/side road transitions, better judgement of illegally parked cars, much better overall feel; but clear hesitation on narrow roads and no ability to reverse out of an oncoming squeeze. With English subtitles.
8 October 2026
XPeng Names Its Robotaxi YOYO and Opens a Booking Mini-Program
XPeng has named its Robotaxi business XPENG YOYO (小鹏悠游), opened a robotaxi page and a ride-hailing mini-program, and will let the public in by invitation code. The car is a GX-platform vehicle with four Turing chips at about 3,000 TOPS, second-generation VLA and no lidar or HD maps; production units came off the line in May, employee testing has passed 2,200 orders, and since August it can test in Guangzhou with nobody in the driver's seat. The substance is the permit, not the name.
7 October 2026
Telescope on the MONA L03: 'The Best Compact Electric SUV in the World'
Telescope, one of the few English-language reviewers of Chinese cars, spent 13 minutes on the XPeng MONA L03 and called it the best compact electric SUV in the world: better taste than XPeng's own flagship GX at a third of the price, unusually good ergonomics and rear visibility, but fonts and icons that are too small, a small boot and a frunk nobody will use. We add English subtitles and set out what is his verdict rather than a measurement.
7 October 2026
XPeng's Dual-Orin Distilled VLA Takes On Its Weakest Scene
A Weibo reviewer has posted a 3.5-minute one-take clip of XPeng's VLA 2.0 distilled build on narrow market streets, the scene where dual-Orin hardware has been weakest, and says it is now almost indistinguishable from the three-Turing VLA 2.0. He describes creeping past oncoming traffic instead of stopping dead, and smooth yielding to e-bikes and pedestrians. We look at what the clip shows, what remains the driver's judgement, and the side-by-side comparison he has promised next.
7 October 2026
XPeng Tops a Chinese Ranking of Physical AI Driving Companies
A Chinese consultancy, DBC, has ranked the country's ten leading "physical AI" driving companies and put XPeng first, on a bar of mass production plus a data loop plus new scenarios. The table runs from XPeng through Momenta, Huawei, Horizon, WeRide, ZYT, DeepRoute, QCraft, MINIEYE and Qianli Technology. We set out what is verifiable in XPeng's case, what is self-reported, and why a list built on XPeng's own three growth curves is a narrative judgement rather than a measurement.
7 October 2026
The G9L Goes Global on 12 October - as a Six-Seater
The G9L's Paris world premiere on 12 October is a three-row car: XPENG Deutschland says five, six or seven seats, including a six-seat variant with individual seats developed for Europe, where China got a five-seater only. Norway gets a second premiere at the Oslo Motor Show on 23 October, positioned above the G9 as the AI flagship and further upmarket, and is reported to take six- and seven-seat cars only. Includes a dated correction.
7 October 2026
How Chinese Auto Bosses Talk About Tesla, in 54 Seconds
A 54-second Weibo compilation sets six Chinese auto executives side by side on Tesla - Li Bin, Yu Chengdong, He Xiaopeng, Lei Jun, Li Xiang and Musk - under the framing that their vision is worlds apart. The quotes are real, but checking when each was recorded shows the contrast is a chronological collage: Li Bin later paid tribute to Tesla, and He Xiaopeng's respect line comes five years after his 2020 challenge to Musk.
6 October 2026
Single-Turing G9L Max: A Reviewer Can't Tell It From the Dual-Chip Car
A reviewer spent several days in the single-Turing G9L Max on 6.3 - the distilled VLA 2.0 build for one chip - after driving the dual-Turing car, and could not tell them apart. He also explains why: assisted-driving models are small, and the binding constraint as they grow is memory, not compute. His prediction is that the gap opens by mid-to-late 2027, and his buying advice follows that date.
5 October 2026
Battery Swap: The Rental Works, the Station Does Not
NIO has 4,126 swap stations, 125 million swaps and over RMB 20 billion invested - and sold 30% of the business to Geely in September 2026. Walk the arithmetic and the model splits in two: battery rental yields ~12.5% and has already been securitised, while the station only breaks even around 95 swaps a day unless you are arbitraging valley power. Aulton's prospectus is the controlled experiment, and XPeng's refusal to build any of it is the opposite bet.
5 October 2026
A G9L Projected Its Charging Progress Onto the Tarmac
An XPeng owner charging a G9L watched the driver beside him bend down to inspect the car's charging progress, projected onto the ground by its AI projection headlights. The feature also projects a connected device for camping and an SOS icon after a driver-incapacity pull-over - and per our G9L launch breakdown it is not fitted to the entry trim, which tells you XPeng knows it sells cars.
4 October 2026
The Car G9 Owners Want: Turing Compute at G9 Size, Below G9L Money
A G9 owner at a charging station wants VLA 2.0 but refuses to buy a G9L - too big, he says, and not as handsome as the G9. His questions to XPeng have one answer (the dual-Orin distilled VLA 2.0 is targeted for Q4) and one silence (whether 6.3.0's interface can be reverted). What he and owners like him are really asking for is a five-seat G9-sized car with Ultra/Turing compute below the G9L's price - and the 2026 G9, which already has the Turing chip, costs more than the G9L, not less.
3 October 2026
September in China: BYD, Then a 10,000-Unit Scrum Behind It
The September 2026 Chinese new-energy sales table, compiled from company releases: BYD 463,600, Leapmotor 105,656, XPeng 41,256, Xiaomi 40,000+, HarmonyOS 37,490, NIO 37,408, Zeekr 37,216, GAC 35,494, Li Auto 31,817 and Deepal 30,185. BYD alone outsold the next nine combined, while eight brands are separated by about 11,000 vehicles in a domestic market down an estimated 7-12% year on year.
2 October 2026
XPeng L05 Spotted on a Transporter: Two Purple Units, No Announcement
A verified Weibo user reports two purple XPeng L05s on a car transporter and reads a tight schedule into it — display cars to dealers first, then a launch with no separate technology event. XPeng has said nothing, the post carries three likes, and the Australian register has no L05 on it.
2 October 2026
The MONA L03's September: 14,000 Deliveries and a Young Buyer Base
XPeng has put a number on the MONA L03's September: more than 14,000 deliveries. The buyer profile is the more interesting part - over half under 30, a near-even male-to-female split, 70% from tier-1 and tier-2 cities, more than 90% choosing the Max or Ultra SE trims, and one in five trade-ins coming from a BBA badge. The L03 is now on sale in Australia.
1 October 2026
XPeng and Tesla Take the Only Self-Driving Slots at the Paris Show
XPeng will join the Paris Motor Show's official Autonomous Lab, where it and Tesla are the only two automakers taking part - its first large-scale NGP test-ride experience outside China. The same show hosts the G9L's global launch on 12 October with European orders and pricing, a 1,000 sq m Physical AI stand, and the claim that the G9L becomes the fourth XPeng built in Europe.
1 October 2026
XPeng's September: 41,256 Deliveries and the L03 Reaches Australia
XPeng delivered 41,256 vehicles in September, up 5% month on month, taking Q3 to 118,390, up 15% quarter on quarter. The mix matters more than the total: the GX held above 7,000 for a third month with 3,000-plus Middle East orders, the MONA L03 passed 10,000 and is now selling in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia and Indonesia, and the G9L launched in China from 231,800 yuan.
30 September 2026
A Shareholder Critique of XPeng, and What the Numbers Say
A Chinese shareholder-group summary circulating on Weibo makes three complaints about XPeng: poor investor relations through the share-price decline, weak domestic sales concentrated in older models, and a GX top-trim forecasting miss. This piece reports the claims and then tests them against the data - September deliveries of 41,581 (up 10.3% month on month), a sector-wide September decline, a widening first-half loss, and a product-line consolidation already announced on 28 September.
30 September 2026
XPeng G9L vs Porsche Cayenne: 4.7 s, 36 m and a Wet Moose Test
A Chinese reviewer ran an XPeng G9L and a Porsche Cayenne back to back: 4.7 s to 100 km/h, 36.0 m braking, a 5.4 m turning radius against the Cayenne's 5.7 m, and a wet moose test at 66.3 km/h against 62.5 km/h. The Cayenne won the high-speed lane change 124.1 to 123.4. The revealing part is not the margins but how differently the two cars behave at the limit.
30 September 2026
What an Owner Saw in the Amsterdam NGP-vs-FSD Video, Scene by Scene
A Chinese owner who has driven both XPeng's test builds and an ordinary owner's production 6.3.0 car has published a scene-by-scene reading of Xinhua's Amsterdam footage: wider left turns since VLA 2.0, much smoother longitudinal control in 6.3.0, lateral prediction of a bicycle crossing from behind cover, and a detour NGP cleared in one pass where the Tesla needed a reverse. He also reports the smallest test-to-production gap he has seen from XPeng.
30 September 2026
XPeng P7's First Hill Climb: 1:02.694 at Beijing's Jinzhan Festival
XPeng has taken the P7 hill climbing for the first time, at Beijing's Jinzhan Speed Festival, setting 1:02.694 in the all-electric all-wheel-drive street-car class - fourth in class and seventh overall, according to the Weibo post and same-day Chinese coverage. The promotional comparisons to million-yuan EVs and thousand-horsepower coupes are treated here as claims, since no independent timing sheet has been published.
30 September 2026
First Hands-On With VW's ID.UNYX 09: XPeng Inside, Tuned Differently
The first hands-on impressions of Volkswagen Anhui's ID.UNYX 09 are in, and the tell is that the reviewer instinctively addressed it with XPeng's wake word. He reports the interface is XOS 6.2-equivalent and the assistance base is VLA 2.0 without the latest upgrade - a version behind XPeng's own cars - and finds the car more composed than a P7 despite 503 PS. The AR-HUD is his one real criticism.
30 September 2026
XPeng Patents the Hard Part of Exterior Voice: Choosing Who to Serve
Exterior voice is easy; the hard part is deciding which person to serve when several are standing by the car. A XPeng patent application published on 15 September 2026 (CN 122761318 A) sets out the method: find each candidate's position on the ground using the ankles, map the camera image to the vehicle body, and use a ground priority field that peaks where the component is mounted and decays outward - so the car compares numbers instead of predicting intent.
29 September 2026
XPeng X9 Wins the Luxury Class in German Car of the Year 2027
The XPeng X9 has won the Luxury class in German Car of the Year 2027, decided by a jury of 47 German and international motoring journalists in a category for new cars priced above €70,000. That makes it one of five finalists for the overall title on 2 November - and it is an award for a car Australian buyers can already order, from A$89,900.
29 September 2026
After Amsterdam, a German Tesla Owner on Software, AI and Europe
Andre Scheidler, the German EV content creator Xinhua invited to ride both systems in Amsterdam, has published his own account: he declines the XPeng-vs-Tesla framing, says the two systems were closer than many would expect, and argues the next round of competition will not be decided by range, charging power or horsepower - software, AI and intelligent driving matter more, and Europeans should watch the pace, especially regarding German manufacturers.
29 September 2026
XPeng Confirms Over ¥1 Billion in Carbon-Credit Revenue
XPeng's vice president has confirmed a market rumour: carbon-credit trading with Porsche and several unnamed international automakers is real, covering EU, UK and Australian emissions rules, with total transaction revenue estimated above ¥1 billion and more than ¥500 million expected in 2026. The more revealing numbers are in the Q2 filing — a 12.1% vehicle margin against a 75.1% margin on the services segment that includes carbon credits.
28 September 2026
XPeng's Biggest Owner Event Yet: 220 Cars at a Danish Drive-In
XPeng has posted a recap of what it calls its largest owner event to date: more than 220 cars and over 700 owners at a drive-in cinema in Denmark, with G6s and G9s filling the field, some owners using the sleep kit to make the back row a private screening room, and a user co-created "Drive-In XCombo" launched on site. Danish, Thai and Chinese coverage carries the same numbers - and the event itself appears to predate the post.
28 September 2026
XPeng Consolidates Its Product Lines From Four to Two
XPeng has merged two of its four product lines into one, according to a 36Kr Auto report citing industry sources: the F line (P-series sedans) and the I line (overseas products) are absorbed into G, leaving G for everything above the MONA band and D for MONA itself. The former F-line head now runs product definition for G, and the former I-line head moves to overseas affairs excluding overseas model sales. XPeng has not responded.
28 September 2026
Xinhua Puts XPeng NGP Against Tesla FSD in Amsterdam
A Xinhua-organised test in Amsterdam put XPeng's second-generation VLA driving stack and Tesla's FSD on the same streets on 11 September, with the results published on the 28th. Chinese coverage reports the two systems as closely matched, with XPeng clearing one construction section in a single pass where the Tesla needed two reversing adjustments. CleanTechnica's first-hand account adds the detail, and one caveat that matters: the same XPeng engineer drove both cars.
26 September 2026
XOS 6.3.0.8909: An Owner's Shipped Changelog, Translated
An XPeng owner's nine screenshots of the in-car version screen show the update landing as XOS 6.3.0.8909 — a later build than the 8907 list that leaked on 11 September. Here is the shipped changelog as the car displays it, translated: the Turing VLA 2.0 and Omni VLM models, navigation pull-over, nearby park-in, nose-in and tail-out parking, fuzzy navigation and voice vehicle control, CarPlay, the OPPO digital key, and the voice-architecture change that retires some Xiao P dialogue scenarios.
25 September 2026
Reported: Tesla's Robot Team Only Tracks Unitree and XPeng
A clip from the Chinese podcast High Energy claims a senior Tesla robotics person told a guest that Tesla globally only tracks two robot companies: Unitree and XPeng. We report the claim, are explicit that it is unattributed second-hand hearsay, and lay out what is verifiable around it - XPeng's IRON production line and end-2026 mass-production target, the 2025 catwalk incident where XPeng cut its robot's leg open live, and Musk's public dismissal of rival demos.
25 September 2026
VW and XPeng's ID.UNYX 09 Goes on Sale From 179,900 Yuan
Volkswagen Anhui's ID.UNYX 09 - the second model jointly developed with XPeng - went on sale on 24 October from ¥179,900, or ¥169,900 after incentives, ¥20,000 below September's pre-sale entry. Three trims, CATL 91.96 kWh LFP, 800 V 5C charging, up to 755 km CLTC, dual-chamber air suspension, and XPeng's VLA-based driving system on the Turing chip.
24 September 2026
Does the XPeng G6's Glass Roof Need a Sunshade? A 3-Hour Heat Test
A 2023 test by Chinese outlet EV Smart Travel parked an XPeng G6 and a car with its sunshade closed in direct sun for three hours and logged roof-glass and seat temperatures hourly. The seat ended within 0.6C of the shaded car - but the G6's glass itself ran about 3C hotter. What the numbers do and do not show, the Low-E technology behind it, and the methodology holes.
23 September 2026
XPeng's VLA 2.0 vs Horizon's HSD V2.1: A Reviewer's Split Verdict
A Guangzhou reviewer drove the same urban route with XPeng's XOS 6.3.0 / VLA 2.0 and Horizon Robotics' HSD V2.1, and reached a deliberately split verdict: XPeng's model quality is the closest to Tesla FSD 'bar none', while Horizon leads on functionality by roughly six months - especially in reversing and tight-space escape. Plus what HSD actually is, and the compute argument behind it.
23 September 2026
A 1 MW Flash Charger Opens in Hong Kong, and Australia Comes Next
XPeng and Halo Energy opened the world's first X-Energy megawatt flash charging station in Hong Kong on 22 September 2026 - 1 MW output, four bays, and only 120-240 kW of grid input thanks to on-site storage buffering. The ceremony also confirmed the next step: the Southern Hemisphere's first X-Energy system in Australia before the end of 2026. Includes English-subtitled video of Brian Gu and John Tsang.
22 September 2026
XOS 6.3.0 in XPeng's Own Slides: Every Feature, Translated
XPeng's official seven-slide deck for XOS 6.3.0, translated: the Turing VLA 2.0 prediction world model for Ultra and Ultra SE cars, VLA 2.0 Lite for single-Turing Max, the Omni-based Turing VLM model, navigation pull-over, nearby park-in with nose-in and tail-out, one-sentence voice control and fuzzy navigation, Apple CarPlay and split-screen, plus remote safety, HUD, gate-camera, Dock and scene-mode changes.
22 September 2026
XPeng's IRON Moves From Human-Like Motion to Human-Like Interaction
XPeng has published a real-world interaction test of its humanoid robot IRON: following three people around a room, recognising them after they swap places and clothes, switching between Chinese, English and German mid-conversation, and answering car questions as a store sales guide. XPeng names four capabilities, running on three onboard Turing chips rated at 2,250 TOPS.
21 September 2026
XPeng's G9L Press Conference: Paris, Dual-Orin VLA and IRON
Translated highlights from the G9L launch press conference: a global launch at the Paris Motor Show on 12 October with possible partnership announcements, a Q4 batch rollout of distilled VLA 2.0 to dual-Orin-X owners, IRON robot production targeted for end-2026 with China deliveries from Q2 2027, and G9L production starting at Graz - plus one claim about Australian EV buyers that does not survive checking.
21 September 2026
Why Dual-Orin XPengs Can't Run Full VLA 2.0: The Bandwidth Wall
A widely-read Zhihu owner analysis argues the reason dual-Orin-X XPengs get a distilled VLA 2.0 instead of the full 30B model is memory bandwidth, not TOPS: two Orin X chips share PCIe, leaving roughly 150-170 GB/s against the 300 GB/s a 30B model needs at 20 Hz, while Turing keeps its 273 GB/s on a dedicated ring bus. We separate the verified chip specs from the thread's AI-derived numbers - and note the uncomfortable finding that Turing's bandwidth sits below Tesla HW4 and NIO Shenji.
21 September 2026
He Xiaopeng: XPeng in Talks With More Automakers on Tech and Chips
XPeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng says the company is negotiating technology and chip cooperation with more automakers and with non-automakers, that it is talking to Volkswagen about further work, and that the Paris Motor Show in October may bring new overseas cooperation cases that could land commercially in Q4 2026.
20 September 2026
Sunwoda's 15C Flash Charging: What It Means for XPeng
Sunwoda has launched a 15C flash-charging battery — 10% to 97% in nine minutes, 190 Wh/kg — plus a 2.4 MW charging cabinet, storage-backed station retrofits and a plan for 10,000 megawatt-class stations in China by the end of 2027. Here is what that means for XPeng: a stake in the cell maker but no exclusivity, a pack-level strategy that is exactly the enabling layer, an 800V architecture that cannot exploit a 1.5 MW gun, and an X-Energy megawatt design that now has a much larger mirror image.
20 September 2026
XPeng Will Build Its Own Battery Packs From 2026 — But Not the Cells
Asked about self-developed batteries after the G9L launch, He Xiaopeng said XPeng now does its batteries itself — 'not the cells'. From 2026 XPeng leads pack design, the BMS and thermal management, with stakes in three cell makers (CALB, Sunwoda, SVOLT) and cells still bought in. Here is what pack-level control actually buys, how it differs from Li Auto's deeper cell-level approach, and what the 'escaping CATL' commentary does and does not establish.
20 September 2026
XPeng G9L's 1,200 km Zero-Refuelling Run, Analysed
Nine media outlets drove a G9L from Beijing to Shanghai — 1,200 km with zero refuelling, finishing with 81 km showing. 张抗抗KK's analysis of the logged data shows the three phases: electric first to 279.4 km at a 77.6% range achievement rate, then fuel burning while the battery climbed from 43 to 267 km, then the remarkable final stretch where the fuel display read zero while the battery gained charge — the 'hidden fuel' buffer, and why it is cheaper than an equivalent battery reserve.
20 September 2026
XPeng G9L Launches: Full Pricing, Specs and the Distilled VLA Debut
The XPeng G9L is on sale in six variants from a limited-time ¥231,800, with full per-variant detail: the 702 RWD Max runs one Turing chip and VLA 2.0 Lite, the 660 Ultra SE and Ultra add AWD and the third chip, and only the 755 Ultra gets the 110 kWh ternary pack (755 km, 4.45 s). Plus REEV pricing, chassis and cabin specifications, the option list, and estimated Australian pricing of roughly $67,000–96,000 plus on-road costs.
17 September 2026
XOS 6.3.0 Begins Rollout: VLA 2.0 Lite Reaches Turing Max Cars
XPeng's XOS 6.3.0 starts its first push on 17 September — split by hardware tier. Ultra and Ultra SE get a cabin and assisted-driving architecture refresh with the Omni multimodal model and an onboard Master Agent; single-Turing Max cars get VLA 2.0 Lite, distilled from the high-end Turing VLA 2.0, moving NGP onto the second-generation VLA architecture. Plus voice-linked pull-over and park-in, parking improvements, split-screen and CarPlay.
16 September 2026
XPeng's Hybrid Si/SiC Inverter: The IEEE Cover Paper, Explained
XPeng's powertrain head walks through the team's IEEE Power Electronics Magazine cover paper: a hybrid traction inverter mixing Si IGBTs, SiC MOSFETs and SiC Schottky diodes in one module, a four-stage switching scheme, and low-parasitic packaging — taking CLTC e-drive efficiency from 96.3% (all-silicon) to 98.7%, at full-silicon-carbide efficiency but without its cost.
16 September 2026
Will 5C Fast Charging Damage the Battery? XPeng's Powertrain Head Explains
XPeng VP and Powertrain Center head XP-Jacky answers the owner question behind every 5C claim: what does nine minutes of ultra-fast charging do to the pack? His answer is three layers of current control — an EIS safety chip doing real-time impedance 'ECG', BMS dynamic current regulation, and LFP cells with strong thermal management — plus a measured figure of about 1 percentage point of annual degradation difference, and the three charging behaviours actually worth avoiding.
16 September 2026
XPeng G9L 'TOP G9L': Five Extreme Tests, in Full
XPeng's 17-minute TOP G9L performance film, with English subtitles: a crest jump and a mid-air lane-change jump on the XVMC chassis system, the moose test at 80 km/h, cross-axle with the doors open, 700 mm of wading, and the driver-incapacity assist chain from warning to emergency call — plus what the entertainment format does and doesn't prove.
16 September 2026
XPeng Opens Its First X-Energy Megawatt Charging Station in Hong Kong
XPeng's first X-Energy megawatt flash-charging station is live in Hong Kong: 1 MW peak output, 1,000 A, a 400 kWh on-site battery that keeps the grid connection at or below 240 kW, four bays, built with Halo and open to all brands — with Europe next, and one important caveat about what 1 MW actually means.
16 September 2026
Liu Xianming on XOS 6.3.0: XPeng's Physical AI Upgrade, in Full
XPeng VP Liu Xianming's full article on XOS 6.3.0, translated — InfiniVLA's 30-second history, X-Foresight's 6-second prediction, Flow Matching and MoT — plus 电动知士大雨's reading of what the dual Orin-X distillation means for Max owners, and where that rollout stands.
16 September 2026
XPeng's Dual-Orin VLA 2.0 Distilled Build: First Drive in a MONA M03
A two-hour preview of XPeng's dual-Orin (双O) distilled VLA 2.0 build in a MONA M03, compared throughout with three-Turing 630: long temporal sequence, scene understanding and efficiency all present, with the remaining gap mainly in reaction speed. Plus Liu Xianming's explanation of how the distillation actually works.
14 September 2026
XPeng G9L 5C Charging: 450 km in 9 Minutes 17 Seconds, in One Take
XPeng's official single-take charging demo for the G9L: 8% to 72% state of charge, 450 km of range added in 9 minutes 17 seconds, and a 619.6 kW peak on a 720 kW charger — with the full charging curve and what the numbers do and don't prove.
14 September 2026
Wang Fengying Drives the Right-Hand-Drive XPeng G9L Bound for Australia
XPeng president Wang Fengying's first reaction to the right-hand-drive G9L heading to Australia: easily 150 km/h, solid at speed, a 5.4 m turning radius smaller than a MINI's, five-star safety and 700 mm wading — in a video posted ahead of the Australian launch, now with English subtitles.
13 September 2026
XPeng at IFA Berlin: Physical AI and the VLA 2.0 Turing Model
CleanTechnica's Larry Evans sat in on XPeng's IFA Berlin keynote with Dr. John MA: latency and safety as the constraints, Infini-VLA's 30-second memory, Streaming Inference, X-Foresight's 6-second prediction, the plan to distil VLA 2.0 onto single-Turing and dual-Orin cars, and robots riding in cars. With full credit and links to the original.
13 September 2026
XPeng L03's In-Cabin Auto-Parking, Demonstrated in Manila
An 87-second clip from the Philippines shows the XPeng L03 parking itself from inside the cabin: pick the space on screen, start the park, release the brakes, and the car finishes the manoeuvre — filmed with XPeng Philippines in Manila.
13 September 2026
China Signals Push for Automaker Mergers to End Homogeneous Competition
At an MIIT press conference on China's intelligent connected NEV industry, the NDRC's Shao Ji said the state will support mergers and restructuring among large automakers, and push back on homogeneous competition in product design and technology R&D.
11 September 2026
XPeng G9L Right-Hand-Drive Production Begins, Heading to Australia
The first right-hand-drive G9L batch rolled off the Guangzhou line on 11 September 2026, bound for Australia - and the detail that was missing then is now in: the G9L is due in Australia in Q4 2026 with deliveries from early 2027, export cars take six- and seven-seat layouts rather than China's five, and XPeng's exports are running well ahead of 2025. Australian pricing is still unpublished.
11 September 2026
XPeng Tops Egypt's Premium BEV Registrations, Launches G7 and P7+ REEVs
XPeng finished H1 2026 as Egypt's top premium battery-electric brand, then launched the G7 Super REEV and P7+ Super REEV in Cairo on 25 August — the G7's first market outside China, with up to 1,704 km of CLTC combined range.
11 September 2026
XPeng's Distilled VLA Reaches Dual-Orin MAX Cars: First Impressions
Auto photographer 铁皮摄影师 and 肉肉爸比ev got a first taste of the VLA distilled build for XPeng's older dual-Orin (双O) MAX hardware — the platform many owners feared would be left behind. The verdict: no compute compromise, and in most scenarios it can align with the Ultra's 630 build, though it is still an engineering version.
11 September 2026
XPeng XOS 6.3.0.8907: The Rumored Update's Full Changelog, Translated
The circulating 6.3 build's release notes run to eleven screenshots: Turing VLA 2.0 with Infini-VLA and X-Foresight, pull-over on navigation, nose-in parking, fuzzy navigation, CarPlay, an OPPO digital key, English UI — and "Pengyou Watch", which asks nearby XPeng owners to help when a driver is incapacitated.
10 September 2026
Hands Off the Wheel for 19 Minutes: XPeng's New VLA vs a Zero-Takeover Challenge
劝退频道 set out to drive a 7-waypoint, hour-long route in an XPeng G9L without touching the wheel or taking over. The new VLA cleared two barrier gates, caught green lights, pulled an unprotected U-turn with a 5.4 m turning radius and threaded a 2 m lane — and forced exactly one takeover, by parking itself.
10 September 2026
XPeng VLA 630, Frame by Frame: Where "Fast Reactions" Actually Come From
Chinese auto-tech channel 电动知士 spent a week and 2TB of test footage pulling XPeng's VLA 630 apart one frame at a time. Their answer: the "fast reaction" drivers feel comes less from raw compute than from long temporal sequence and prediction — plus an efficiency-first driving style that sometimes looks like FSD's Mad Max.
9 September 2026
XPeng's 2026 Battery Supply: CALB, EVE and FinDreams — No CATL in the GX
How XPeng's 2026 models are actually battery-sourced: CALB leads across the G6/G7/GX/X9/G9L and MONA L03, EVE Energy and BYD's FinDreams fill in — and why the flagship GX no longer uses CATL.
6 September 2026
XPeng 630 (XOS 6.3.0): More Than an OTA — the Underlying Upgrade, Explained
A 16-minute walkthrough of XPeng's 630 update: not a routine OTA, but a foundational upgrade to the second-gen VLA driving system — 4D spatiotemporal memory, streaming inference, and a world model.
4 September 2026
XPeng VLA-Lite Distilled Version — First Impressions From Guangzhou
A first-hand review of XPeng's VLA-Lite distilled version: same VLA 2.0 base as the full dual-Turing 6.3.0, with decision latency as the main trade-off.
4 September 2026
XPeng's Production Capacity Problem: A Systemic Analysis
Four capacity crises in four years — G6, MONA M03, 2025 G6, and now GX+L03. Why XPeng keeps missing demand, and the structural causes behind it.
4 September 2026
VLA 6.3.0 Remembers 30 Seconds and Predicts 6 Seconds
XPeng's second-gen VLA adds the dimension of time: Infini-VLA's 30s memory and X-Foresight's 6s prediction — first on the G9L.
4 September 2026
Three Turing Chips, 2250 TOPS: What Is It Actually For?
XPeng's answer: the biggest on-device model yet, 300% faster response, 30s Infini-VLA memory, and 6s X-Foresight prediction — plus a preview of L4 human-vehicle interaction.
4 September 2026
XPeng's Turing AI Chip: Redefining the Compute-Economics of Smart Driving
Traditional chips waste up to 60% of general-purpose compute in cars. The Turing chip targets 3× effective density — and costs 28% less than sourcing externally.
4 September 2026
Why V14 Lite, Not V13 Lite: The Logic Behind XPeng's Max Distillation
XPeng distilled the Max (single-Turing) version from VLA 6.3.0, not older models. Here's why the 'teacher' model matters.
4 September 2026
What Is 'Hardware End-to-End'? A Question About XPeng's AI Day
Software end-to-end is clear, but what does XPeng mean by 'hardware end-to-end' — sensors straight to chip straight to vehicle control?
4 September 2026
Turing Chip: 750 TOPS Isn't Top — But Software-Hardware Co-Design Is
Why judging XPeng's Turing chip by its 750 TOPS number misses the point — and why real-road results are the only benchmark that matters.
4 September 2026
Infini-VLA: The VLA 2.0 Upgrade That Understands Time
The core change in VLA 2.0's first major upgrade: 30s memory, 6s prediction, and 300% faster streaming response.
4 September 2026
From Rule-Based Code to End-to-End Model: XPeng 5.4.0's Leap
A long-time G6 owner on the day XPeng switched planning/control from code to an end-to-end large model — and why it felt like a step change.
4 September 2026
XPeng's 800V SiC Oil-Cooled Flat-Wire 3-in-1 E-Drive, Explained
Why the G6's '800V + SiC + oil-cooled flat-wire' deeply-integrated 3-in-1 drive unit was named a landmark technology.
4 September 2026
XPILOT VP on Control vs Planning: What End-to-End Will and Won't Replace
XPeng's 吴新宙 on whether a model will replace rule-based control and planning — and why the old stack stays as the 'teacher'.
4 September 2026
XPeng's 2nd-Gen VLA Upgrade: From Understanding the World to Understanding People
A plain-language summary of VLA 2.0's first major upgrade: 30s memory, 6s prediction, 300% faster response, and the Master Agent.
4 September 2026
Why the XPeng P7+ E-Drive Is Rated 180 kW When It Can Do 270 kW
The P7+ announces 180 kW (and 230 kW), but its motor can do 270 kW. Here's why XPeng deliberately de-tuned it.
4 September 2026
XPeng's 2nd-Gen VLA Upgrade: It Now Understands Time (4D Spatiotemporal)
The first major VLA 2.0 upgrade is about time — remembering the past 30s, predicting the next 6s, and acting in a streaming loop.
4 September 2026
Full SiC to Hybrid SiC: Is the XPeng G9L's Powertrain a Downgrade?
XPeng switched the G9L from a full-SiC motor to a hybrid SiC + IGBT design. A look at the re-division of labor — and why it cuts SiC use ~60% while lifting output ~10% and CLTC efficiency to 93.5%.
3 September 2026
XPeng GX's 800V "Hybrid Silicon-Carbide" E-Drive, Explained
Why the XPeng GX's solid range comes from an 800V hybrid-SiC coaxial e-drive — mixing IGBT + SiC to reach 98.7% CLTC efficiency at half the SiC cost.