Vortex around Xpeng P7: Tesla, Porsche, Bosch and Nvidia technologies, priced at 33,000 euros

Start of sales

April 28, 2020 at 12:21 pm Reading time: Two minutes

The price of Xpeng P7 is only a small part of Tesla Model S. This electric car is equipped with Nvidia, Bosch, Brembo and even Porsche technology, with a cruising range of 700 kilometers. Starting to sell now is probably the most exciting Chinese electric car.

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Recently, Chinese manufacturer Xpeng has attracted a lot of attention. With the SUV G3, the company already owns another car in the series, according to which it sold more than 10,000 cars. The industry believes that Xpeng P7 will surpass this brand in a short time. Looking at the technical data of Xpeng P7 is enough to draw similar considerations.

Introduction of Xpeng P7

• 700 km range [NEDC]
• Prices start from 33,000 euros [including subsidies in China]
• The price of the top version with a full set of equipment is about 50,000 euros
• Battery 80.9 kWh
• Charging 120 minutes can charge 10 minutes
• Accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in 4.3 seconds
• Rear-wheel drive and all-wheel version
• With 13 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors and 5 radar units for autonomous driving
• Nvidia chip [the first vehicle equipped with the Nvidia AGX Xavier platform]

Arguing with Tesla

Xpeng is especially thorny on Tesla. This has nothing to do with the appearance of Xpeng P7, it reminds many people of the hybrid of Tesla Model 3 and Model S, and it is related to the automatic driving function called Xpilot by the manufacturer. Tesla's allegation: A former employee stole the intellectual property, the source code of the autonomous driving function, and brought it into the development of P7.

In fact, Xpeng P7 provides the functions known for Autopilot [Level 3] and Tesla's Autopilot function. This also includes automatic parking.

Expertise in Porsche, Bosch, Brembo and Nvidia

Despite the low price, the manufacturer does not seem to save equipment. For example, there is a spacious glass panoramic roof, a chassis jointly developed by Porsche, and the braking system comes from Brembo, ABS and Bosch's braking energy recovery technology. The autopilot function is said to be very complicated. For example, the lane keeping assist system should be able to automatically operate electric vehicles even in very narrow corners.

Xpeng P7 is now available in China. It is unclear whether the car will be sold in Germany in the foreseeable future. SUV G3 has not officially entered Germany.