I just reported earlier today on XPENG’s exploding sales in February. It had 570% sales growth in February 2025 compared to February 2024. Now it’s entering another big market, Indonesia. Earlier today, XPENG launched in the country of 281 million. XPENG will even produce the X9 and G6 in Indonesia … [continued]
XPENG* is continuing its pretty significant global expansion. In the past few days, it has taken steps to enter Poland and Thailand, after bringing its cars to several other new markets in the past year. The Chinese smart EV startup is setting up infrastructure and partnerships around the world with … [continued]
Xpeng launched in Australia in Sydney two months ago. The cars are now making their way into the deep north, and lo and behold, one showed up at our coffee, cake and EVs morning and we had the opportunity to have a good gawk. Marc (the new owner) was proud … [continued]
XPENG has now come to the UK, and Ireland, and Finland. The XPENG G6, a highly competitive new electric SUV or crossover, is now available in the UK. Perhaps most notably, the G6 is priced starting at just £39,990. That’s less than the cheapest Tesla Model Y. To start, 20 … [continued]
The Kia EV3 compact electric SUV is the 57th car to earn the title of The Car of the Year in Denmark. It was followed closely by the Skoda Elroq in second place, and the Renault Scenic (which was named The Car of the Year in Europe in the spring) … [continued]
XPENG is entering another major EV market. This week, it’s the UK. For starters, XPENG will launch the G6 via distribution partner International Motors Ltd. The company will reportedly start delivering the G6 SUV to customers in the UK very soon. XPENG notes that the UK is a priority market … [continued]
This is the fourth of a five-part series of articles (you can check the others here: part one, part two and part three), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. See the background for this series in the first two articles if you missed them. … [continued]
Like several other Chinese EV producers, Xpeng is quickly entering one new market after another. Its latest market entrance is into Ireland. On Tuesday, the company noted, “XPENG strengthens its European commitment with an official entry into the Irish market, another key right-hand drive market.” The first model available in … [continued]
September saw plugin EVs at 23.7% share in Germany, up from 21.0% year on year. The low year-on-year baseline masks weakness — BEV share (and volume) 2 years ago was higher than now. September’s overall auto volume was 208,848 units, down 7% YoY and down around 14% from 2017–2019 seasonal … [continued]
September witnessed plugin EVs take a record 97.5% share in Norway, up from 93.0% year on year. BEVs crushed all other powertrains, taking 96.4% share, also a new record, with PHEVs a distant runner-up at 1.1% share. Overall auto volume was 12,966 units, up 25% YoY. Tesla dominated, taking around a … [continued]
