The MONA L05's Leaked Price List Is Unverified. The Car Isn't.

Updated 12 October: XPeng has now made the L05 official. Its own account posted a teaser the next morning naming the car and giving it a segment: "MONA L05, young people's first large five-seat SUV — coming soon." The 24-second film sets it alongside the L03 in a "Let's MONA club" scene and ends on the line 即将登场. The name and the positioning are confirmed; the price list below is still not.

▶ Play XPeng's 24-second L05 teaser — the company's own film, showing the L03 and L05 together.

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A Weibo account with a record of getting XPeng details early posted thirteen images on 11 October: one appears to be a pre-sale price slide for the MONA L05, and the other twelve are photographs of an undisguised car. The post says an XPeng executive has confirmed the L05 "will be seen next week", and asks followers how much more than the L03 the new car should cost.

The slide is the interesting part, and it should be treated carefully.

The slide posted with the leak. It lists six prices under the heading "XPeng MONA L05 pre-sale price". Image: via 烟隐烟隐 on Weibo.

What the slide claims

Trim	Powertrain	Price
Max	BEV, 525 km	153,800 RMB
Max	BEV, 625 km	163,800 RMB
Max	EREV ("1,330")	159,800 RMB
Ultra SE	BEV, 525 km	165,800 RMB
Ultra SE	BEV, 625 km	175,800 RMB
Ultra SE	EREV ("1,330")	171,800 RMB

That is a 153,800 to 175,800 RMB spread, with the Max trims below 165,000 and the Ultra SE trims above it — the same Max/Ultra SE two-tier naming XPeng has used on its recent launches, where Ultra SE sits above Max in compute. The slide itself says nothing about chips or assistance hardware.

Why the slide should not be taken at face value

Three things argue for caution, and they are worth stating before the pricing gets repeated as fact.

The range figures do not match the regulatory filing. The slide quotes 525 km and 625 km for the two battery-electric versions. The MIIT filing reported in August lists a 71.1 kWh LFP pack with four CLTC tiers — 615, 635, 640 and 660 km. No 525 km variant appears in that filing. Either the slide describes something not yet filed, or it is not what it appears to be.

The extended-range figure is a different kind of number. "1,330" on the slide is a combined figure; the filing's EREV data is a 37.2 kWh pack with 237–253 km of CLTC electric range and a 1.5-litre, 70 kW range extender. Those are consistent with each other — a 1,330 km combined number is plausible on top of a ~250 km electric range — but the slide mixes test cycles in a way that makes it look bigger than the underlying electric range.

Nobody else has it. The leaked price slide has not been corroborated by any Chinese auto outlet, and XPeng's own teaser on 12 October carried no pricing at all. The slide still exists only as a Weibo post.

What is actually established about the car

Strip the leak away and the L05 is well documented, because it has been through China's regulatory process:

• It is MONA's first mid-size SUV, aimed at young families, and it is bigger than the L03 in every dimension: 4,870 mm long, 1,930 wide, 1,636 tall, on a 2,940 mm wheelbase — longer between the axles than the current G6 (2,890 mm).
• It is the first MONA model with both powertrains: a 183 kW motor in both cases, battery-electric with the 71.1 kWh LFP pack, or extended-range with the 1.5-litre extender and 37.2 kWh battery.
• He Xiaopeng confirmed a Q4 2026 China launch on the 24 August earnings call. Industry expectation for the starting price has been "around 150,000 RMB or below" since the filing — which is roughly where the leaked slide lands, and is the main reason it is circulating at all.

The expected launch window is now the week beginning 12 October, with Chinese Weibo chatter pointing at the 15th and noting that cars are already being stockpiled. XPeng has not published a date — the teaser says only 即将登场, "coming soon".

The official positioning is worth a second look. "Large five-seat SUV" (大五座) is a deliberate Chinese segment label: a five-seater with the space of something bigger, sold as a choice rather than a compromise. It is a different proposition from the G9L, which XPeng is taking to Europe with a six- or seven-seat layout, and it settles something the leaked slide never said — the L05 is a five-seat car, on a 2,940 mm wheelbase that is longer than the current G6's.

The car in the same post: undisguised, and clearly a larger, taller shape than the L03. Image: via 烟隐烟隐 on Weibo.

Why the L05 matters more than the price

The L05 is the moment MONA stops being a car and becomes a range. The L03 — the car that started as the M03 — gave XPeng a volume model in the compact segment; the L05 puts the sub-brand into the mid-size family SUV market, which is the most contested space in China and the one where the company needs volume rather than margin.

It also arrives at a specific moment. XPeng has guided to challenging 60,000 sales in a single month in the fourth quarter, and a 150,000-RMB family SUV is the kind of product that moves a monthly number. And it brings extended range to MONA for the first time, the same dual-powertrain strategy the company has applied to the G9L and the P7+ — a hedge that makes sense in a market where buyers in the north and in export markets still weigh range anxiety against charging speed.

The rumour we were asked to check

In the comments under the same post, a follower asked the account whether XPeng's G6, G7 and G9 will be completely redesigned next year with a more rugged style. The account — the same one that had the L05 images — replied: "现在谈这个还早" — "it's too early to talk about that." The follower took the non-denial as encouragement and joked about adding to his XPeng position before Monday.

We looked for anything else, and there is nothing. No filing, no executive statement, no supplier reporting and no Chinese outlet has described a wholesale redesign of the G6, G7 or G9 for 2027 in a "rugged" direction. XPeng's recent activity on those cars has been the opposite kind of change: model-year updates and the addition of extended-range powertrains — the G6 and G9 were both updated in the current cycle, and the G7 Super Range extends the same pattern.

So the honest result is a null one: a rumour raised in a comment section, neither confirmed nor denied by the person best placed to know, with no corroboration anywhere else. "It's too early" is not a confirmation; it may equally mean there is nothing yet to say.

Caveats

• The price slide is unverified. It comes from a single Weibo post, its range figures conflict with the MIIT filing, and no outlet has corroborated it.
• The launch date is not official. "Next week" is the post's wording; the 15 October date is Weibo chatter, not an XPeng announcement.
• The specifications are the regulatory filing's, not final marketing specification — ranges and grades can change between filing and launch.
• The 60,000-per-month target is XPeng's own guidance and a target, not a forecast we can verify.
• The redesign rumour produced nothing. We report it because it was asked, and because a null result is a result; we have not written it up as news.
• The leaked images are of a real car, but we cannot verify that the price slide in the same post belongs to XPeng's launch material rather than being assembled by the poster.

The bottom line

The L05 is a real car with a confirmed launch window, a regulatory paper trail and a role in XPeng's fourth-quarter volume targets; the price list is a single unverified image whose numbers do not line up with the paperwork. Those two things are circulating together this week, and only one of them should be repeated as fact.

Source: the Weibo posts by XPeng's official account and by 烟隐烟隐, the MIIT filing as reported by Chinese auto media (Bitauto, ZOL), and He Xiaopeng's 24 August earnings-call confirmation — translated & adapted for XPENGTech.

Updated 12 October 2026 with XPeng's official naming and positioning of the L05, and the company's teaser film.

Update, 15 October: XPeng revealed the L05's interior on 14 October and confirmed that pre-sales open on 15 October — we set out the cabin specification here. The leaked price list above is still uncorroborated; the pre-sale price will settle it. Update, 21 October: the pre-sale prices came out on 15 October, and the slide above did not survive them. XPeng opened the L05 at 169,800 to 191,800 RMB across five trims — 535 Max at 169,800, 1310 Max at 169,800, 635 Max at 179,800, 1310 Ultra SE at 181,800 and 635 Ultra SE at 191,800 — with the full launch on 29 October. Every line of the leaked slide was wrong: the entry trim is 16,000 RMB higher, the range labels are 535 and 635 km rather than 525 and 625, and the EREV is badged 1,310 rather than 1,330. The official ladder — and the 587 km zero-takeover run that was published the same week — are set out here.