When talking about specific product planning, He Xiaopeng announced that Xiaopeng’s new brand will be officially released at the Beijing Auto Show in April. The car will target the global car market of 100,000-150,000 people, and the first model will be launched and delivered in the third quarter of this year. In addition, Xpeng’s main brand will launch another new model in the second half of this year.

He Xiaopeng also said that this 100,000-150,000 RMB new car will be the “most eye-catching hot new model” in the A-class pure electric market this year, and is committed to creating the first smart pure electric car for young people. In total, three new products will be released this year, and more new products will be pre-released.

Other details about the car were reported on the 16th. He Xiaopeng once said at the China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum 2024 that this brand will create the first AI smart driving car for young people, bringing the price Bringing a new smart driving experience and ultimate cost-effectiveness. In addition, the brand will successively launch a number of new models with different levels of intelligent driving capabilities in the future to provide users with the best intelligent driving experience of the same level.

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Today, blogger @电竞士 shared two spy photos of new cars, which are said to be “Xpeng’s new brand models.” As you can see from the picture, this new car adopts a different design language from Xiaopeng’s existing models. It is equipped with Y-shaped headlights. The overall design style is sporty and adopts a hidden door handle design commonly used in new energy models.

According to previous reports, He Xiaopeng once stated in the “First Letter to All Employees in the Year of the Dragon” that this year is the first year for the accumulation and explosion of Xpeng’s products and technology platforms, and about 30 new products or redesigns will be planned within three years.

This year, Xpeng will release the first car of the platform on the 300,000+ level and 150,000 level platforms, completing two important cornerstones of Xpeng’s layout in the 100,000-400,000 level. This year is the first year for Chinese automobile brands to enter the “bloody sea” competition, which is also the first year of the knockout round.

This year is the first year of Xpeng Internationalization V2.0. It will deploy core markets in Europe, ASEAN, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania and other regions, deepen the intelligent advantages of products, and strengthen the local adaptation of products (including left-hand drive, Right rudder), comprehensively creating a new path to globalization from products, intelligent driving, and brands.

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He Xiaopeng said that it is believed that low-altitude aircraft will gradually become a reality in the next year and the scale will become larger and larger in the next 5-20 years. At the same time, Xpeng will use its automotive supply chain and methods to reduce the manufacturing costs of low-altitude aircraft. “Only by reducing manufacturing costs and continuing to pursue higher safety can it be possible for more people to experience flying (cars).”

In February this year, a set of spy photos of Xpeng’s “Land Aircraft Carrier” split flying car were circulated online. The six-wheel layout and body outline are highly recognizable. Officials stated that the land-air integrated flying car is designed for future three-dimensional transportation. In land mode, the arms, rotors and other flight systems can be completely folded and stored inside the car body; through the folding deformation system, the arms can be opened to switch to flight mode. , achieving vertical take-off and landing when conditions permit.

According to previous reports, Xpeng Motors has announced that the split flying car “Land Aircraft Carrier” will start pre-orders in the fourth quarter of this year, and plans to start mass production and delivery in the fourth quarter of next year.

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He Xiaopeng’s Weibo forwarded a report about the resignation of Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. Vogt did not provide any explanation for his resignation, but he mentioned an accident that caused autonomous driving. Automotive operations are suspended and a safety review is conducted.

On the evening of October 2, a woman in San Francisco was violently hit by a car and fell in front of a Cruise driverless taxi. Although the Cruise driverless taxi braked in time, it then tried to pull over and stop. The woman was crushed twice and dragged for about 6 meters, causing her injuries to become more serious. On October 25, the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended the operating license of Cruise driverless taxis. On November 7, Cruise announced a recall of 950 self-driving vehicles across the United States, and more vehicles may be recalled in the future.

It is noticed that the first batch of Xpeng XNGP urban navigation assisted driving without high-precision maps has started public testing. The XNGP urban smart driving using the light map solution will not be limited by the use range and update time of high-precision maps. This function is not restricted by cities. After turning on the AI ​​driving function, users can set the starting point and end point nationwide. After one manual driving, a memory map can be formed, and the “AI driving” can be used when selecting the travel route later. function to realize urban navigation assisted driving on individual routes/specific scenes.

Previously, Xpeng Motors has announced that XNGP urban navigation assisted driving will cover 25 cities in November and will be open to 50 cities by the end of December. He Xiaopeng expressed the challenge to achieve full coverage of XNGP in major urban road networks (including Class 1-4 roads) across the country within 2024.

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Despite his fortune shrinking to a quarter of his $5.5 billion net worth in 2021, He Xiaopeng is still the 2048th richest person in the world.

According to a regulatory filing made public in February, He Xiaopeng owns 20.5 percent of Xiaopeng Automotive’s Class A shares as of Dec. 31, 2022.

Xiaopeng reported disappointing first-quarter results last Wednesday, showing that the company’s revenue fell nearly 50% year-over-year to RMB 4.03 billion. The company’s net loss also widened to RMB 2.34 billion, up from RMB 1.7 billion a year ago. The revenue decline was mainly due to the poor sales performance of Xiaopeng’s vehicles in the first quarter. According to the data, XPeng Auto’s total vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2023 were 18,000 units, down 47.25% year-over-year.

Xiaopeng’s poor performance was mainly affected by the price war triggered by Tesla in the Chinese electric car market. Among the “Wei Xiaoli”, Xpeng is the most aggressive in following through with price cuts. Shortly after Tesla announced a price cut at the beginning of the year, Xpeng quickly launched a price cut of up to RMB 20,000-36,000, but it did not attract more buyers.

China is Tesla’s second-largest market after the United States and a very important one for the company. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is visiting China for the first time in three years this week, Reuters reported Monday.

To improve competitiveness, Xiaopeng Auto made changes to its marketing system in the first quarter of this year. It is reported that after the change, in the internal organization and management structure, the two channel teams of auto trade and UDS completed the merger; in the sales system, the sales regions of the two national channels were withdrawn and adjusted to the cell system.

In terms of new products, the G6, a new model of Xiaopeng Auto with SEPA2.0 technology architecture, will be officially launched in June 2023.

Shares of New York Stock Exchange-listed Xiaopeng Automotive closed up 2.4% at $8.20 on Friday. So far this year, the stock is down 18% and 64% from a year ago. Shares of Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed Xiaopeng rose 0.2% at noon Tuesday. So far this year, the stock is down 19%.

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The new P7 has now been declared at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with few changes to the exterior, offering a LIDAR version with the LIDAR hidden in the headlight cluster position. It will be equipped with an 86.2kWh battery pack, with 610km, 670km and 702km range options.

The spy photos of the new Coupe SUV and MPV models of Xpeng have also been previously exposed, the former front with the same latest family design language as the G9, including split headlights and closed grille, is also expected to be equipped with LIDAR.

The MPV model is known to have very little information, the spy photos show that the new car adopts the X-BOT FACE 3.0 design style, the side of the car is typical MPV style, square and straight.

In terms of assisted driving, Xpeng Auto is accelerating the development of its next-generation full-scene intelligent assisted driving product, XNGP, with key features planned for launch in the third quarter of 2023.

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Simplicity Holding is wholly owned by the company’s co-founder, executive director, chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder, Xiaopeng He.

Following the completion of the acquisition, Simplicity Holding holds 327,708,257 Class B ordinary shares and 2.2 million American Depositary Shares of the company, and He Xiaopeng is interested in 327,708,257 Class B ordinary shares and 2.2 million American Depositary Shares of the company held by Simplicity Holding, as well as 21 million Class B ordinary shares of the company held by Respect Holding. and 21 million Class B ordinary shares of the Company held by Respect Holding, representing in aggregate approximately 20.5% of the total issued share capital of the Company as of the date of the Announcement.

In addition, the announcement stated that the Board believes the Acquisition demonstrates He Xiaopeng’s confidence in the Company’s prospects and growth potential, as well as its long-term commitment to the Company.

Delivery data shows that Xpeng Auto delivered a total of 9,578 units in August 2022, an increase of 33% year-on-year. Among them, Xpeng P7 delivered 5745 units, Xpeng P5 delivered 2678 units and Xpeng G3 series delivered 1155 units. From January to August this year, the total number of units delivered by Xpeng Auto exceeded 90,000, nearly doubling compared to the same period last year.

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This afternoon, the founder and chairman of Xiaopeng Automotive, He Xiaopeng tweeted: “With the launch of Xiaopeng’s ‘Fuyu’ intelligent computing center, the arithmetic boost to autonomous driving in simulation training, I believe that in 2025 Xiaopeng Automotive will start to remove the word auxiliary in automatic assisted driving and enter the real era of autonomous driving. the era of automatic driving.”

He Xiaopeng believes that any intelligent car company today, future intelligence must be self-research, and therefore will put forward very high requirements for arithmetic power, arithmetic power cost will rise from today’s billion level to the future billion level. The strong coupling between Xiaopeng and Ali cloud in the algorithm and arithmetic power is a necessary path.

The company has also released several test videos of its urban NGP, including urban road tests (turnaround, red light recognition, lane change detour, large vehicle handling, low-speed following judgment, etc.), road tests in extreme weather environments (dark and heavy rain), etc. He said he would cover all-weather scenarios as much as possible during the test phase, so that the product would receive all-round polishing and thus tend to higher The company also said on July 28 that the final push of the urban NGP is not far away.

The “Fuyao” arithmetic power of the Xiaopeng Auto Autonomous Driving Intelligence Center can reach 600 PFLOPS, increasing the training speed of the core Xiaopeng Autonomous Driving model by 170 times, increasing the utilization of GPU resource virtualization by 3 times, and reducing the end-to-end communication latency to 2 microseconds.

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The form of existence of these screens is also very interesting, some are alone, some are integrated, and the way the screen is opened, is also fancy, some are lifting, some support left and right movement, some can be rotated, and some can be removed, as if not installed these screens, the car can not be driven in general.

So would anyone really like so many screens? Recently, Xiaopeng car founder He Xiaopeng clearly said in an interview that he is firmly opposed to having many screens inside the car.

“I am very firmly opposed to having many screens in the car, the basis for more screens is that there are many people in the car. But a car, how much time proportional to how many individuals, and then multiplied by a proportional factor, they then use a different screen, input-output ratio, this is not much value.”

He Xiaopeng’s meaning is simple, the screen does not lie in more, enough on the line.

He also said more screens in the car, the problem also emerged, including power consumption, the impact on the vehicle range.

So do you agree with He Xiaopeng’s statement? And do you like to buy a car with many screens?

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