CleanTechnicaNovember 2, 2021 By Zachary Shahan
XPeng Deliveries Grow 233% In September SNIPPET:
If you’re following the
EV revolution in China — and, increasingly, growing out of China — XPeng is one of the big names. While one EV startup after another has crashed on the runway or quickly crashed into a tree after getting airborne, there are two or three companies that have had a clean and inspiring launch. One of those is certainly XPeng, and the company’s latest sales figures are a testament to its intelligent management and high consumer demand yet again.
The company delivered
10,138 smart electric vehicles in October. Extrapolating out to one year, that would be
121,656 ⚡ EV deliveries a year — not too bad for a company that delivered its first vehicles about 4 years ago. An annual capacity increase from 0 to 100,000+ in 4 years is
astounding. Furthermore, just looking at that 10,138 total, that’s a 233% increase over October 2020.
In the first 10 months of the 2021, 66,542 XPeng vehicles were delivered. As if the October result wasn’t good enough, that’s a 289% increase year over year!
Incidentally, at the same time that XPeng is comfortably cruising above an annual production rate of more than 100,000 vehicle deliveries, it surpassed 100,000 cumulative deliveries to customers.
The
XPeng P7 has risen to becoming the 19th best selling plugin vehicle in the world in the first 3 quarters of the year, and 13th in September. Among
full-electric vehicles, it was 16th and 11th, respectively.
XPeng ⚡ P7 Meanwhile, the lower-cost, more-mass-market P5 has hardly landed.
XPeng ⚡ P5 Full article:
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/01/xpeng-deliveries-grow-233-in-september/Fully Charged Elliot takes the hotly anticipated Xpeng P5 on a road trip to the Great Wall of China to find out if this new electric super saloon could be the best value EV on the market.
Sitting somewhere between Xpeng's G7 smart SUV and their luxurious P7, the P5 is a capable, comfortable and, most importantly, affordable electric car making it accessible to the masses. Whilst the design is more generic and lacks the finesse of the P7, this car is packed full of impressive technology that you wouldn't expect for such a bargain price.
The P5 also offers some unusual, fun features including the
ability to make the entire car into a bed and watch films on a projector screen, oh and a
built in fridge!
If this car comes to Europe, and we hope it will, it has the potential to completely transform the EV market.