XPeng’s self-driving system was fantabulously good nearly two years ago when I tested it virtually for a long drive into a busy city. At the time, it was called XPeng’s “City Navigation Guided Pilot” (CNGP), and on that drive at least, it was very similar to the Tesla FSD v12.3 … [continued]
This weekend, we saw on Twitter that the first batch of Xpeng G3 electric crossovers for Europe has arrived in Norway. I reached out to Xpeng to see …
As I wrote last night (er, early this morning), Xpeng has made the next step in its IPO process by indicating its expected share price at IPO ($11–13) and the fact that it aims to raise $1.1 billion on the high end of that target.
Xpeng, or Xiaopeng Motors, was founded in 2014 — two years after the Tesla Model S came out — in Guangzhou, China. Without a doubt, it took the idea of “copying what Tesla did” to a potentially obsessive level (I’ll come back to that later on).
Xpeng Motors (Xpeng) continues its steady progress by completing another production milestone, that of 10,000 units of its G3 smart electric vehicle (EV). This was just 188 days into its official launch. Xpeng thus clenched the title of most EV sales from a new EV manufacturer/startup in China.
