Xpeng P7

• Xpeng P7 completes 24-hour endurance test – EV sets new distance record of 3,961 km, beats Xiaomi YU7

  In Cars, International News, Xpeng / By Gerard Lye / 15 August 2025 5:35 pm / 0 comment

  

  After a brief delay due to heavy rain, the Xpeng P7 has completed its 24-hour endurance test, achieving a distance of 3,961 km to set a new record. The attempt began on August 13 shortly after order taking for the P7 start in China, and comes a few months after the Xiaomi YU7 clocked 3,944 km in April.

  The endurance tests by both Chinese brands were done under the supervision of the China Automotive Technology and Research Centre (CATARC), with the goal being to push electric vehicles (EVs) to their limits in terms of sustained performance and charging efficiency.

  This involves driving an EV continuously to cover the most distance in 24 hours, which means high-speed driving that will stress the powertrain. During the attempt, there will be required stops to top up the battery and swap drivers, with the former being its own test of how fast the battery can be charged. Spend too much time at a charger and there is less available to pile on the mileage.

  

  While Xpeng did not provide specifics on its attempt, CarNewsChina reports that the Xiaomi YU7 (a Max variant) maintained an average speed of over 210 km/h during its attempt and underwent 30 charging sessions, each lasting between 10 and 12 minutes.

  If you’re wondering if this 24-hour endurance test for EVs is limited to Chinese models, it isn’t. In 2019, the Porsche Taycan managed 3,425 km and averaged 205 km/h, while the latest Mercedes-Benz CLA (the one with EQ Technology) covered 3,717 km with an average speed of 154.9 km/h and made 40 charging stops. Next came the YU7 with 3,944 km, and the P7 now holds the crown with 3,961 km.

  Xpeng’s decision to take on this challenge comes after company co-founder and CEO He Xiaopeng revealed on August 10 via Weibo that Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun suggested the EV endurance test to him. Seems like some friendly rivalry is going on between the two, much like how Rimac and Koenigsegg have their own battle going on.

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• 2025 Xpeng P7 gets over 10k orders in under 7 mins in China – EV sedan with up to 594 PS, 820 km CLTC

  In Cars, International News, Xpeng / By Gerard Lye / 7 August 2025 11:37 am / 7 comments

  

  The order books for the second-generation Xpeng P7 are now open in China, a few months after the brand’s new flagship sedan was revealed in May this year. Response to the new P7 has been encouraging, as Xpeng announced on its Weibo page that over 10,000 bookings were received in just six minutes and 37 seconds.

  At the moment, customers can place an order by paying a deposit of 99 yuan (about RM58), which can later be used to offset a 3,000 yuan purchase price (RM1.8k). Full pricing will only be announced later this month when the electric vehicle (EV) is officially launched.

  The same goes with specifications, although the Chinese company has provided some preliminary details. To start, the P7 is built on an 800-volt electrical architecture and can be had with rear- or all-wheel drive.

  RWD variants come with an electric motor rated at 367 PS (362 hp or 270 kW) that is paired with either a 74.9-kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) or 92.2-kWh nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) battery. Meanwhile, the AWD only gets the NCM battery and gains another electric motor on the front axle with 227 PS (224 hp or 167 kW) for a total system output of 594 PS (586 hp or 437 kW). This version is claimed to have a top speed of 230 km/h and a 0-100 km/h time of 3.7 seconds.

  

  All battery packs support 5C fast charging, with up to 525 km of range recoverable with just 10 minutes of being plugged in. Xpeng touts three range figures – 702 km, 750 km and 820 km – all of which are based on China’s generous CLTC standard.

  The P7 is a large car, measuring in at 5,017 mm long, 1,970 wide, 1,427 mm tall and with a wheelbase of 3,008 mm. Xpeng says the sedan’s sleek shape and over 25 wind optimisation design elements help it to achieve a low drag coefficient of just 0.201. For context, the Mercedes-Benz EQS has a drag coefficient of 0.202.

  As for styling, the P7 adopts the brand’s Xmart Face that sees light strips form an expressive (and reactive) H-shaped signature at the front, with the effect replicated at the rear as well. Active front shutters, flush door handles, a retractable rear wing and 20-inch aero wheels are other notable items, the last of which can be swapped for sports wheels or larger 21-inch forged units.

  

  

  Our first look at the P7’s interior reveals a minimalistic dashboard that is dominated by a 15.6-inch infotainment touchscreen. You won’t find any physical controls on the dash, which means the central display is how you’ll go about accessing vehicle functions. Most EVs follow this path, but Xpeng is taking a page out of BYD’s playbook by making the screen more interesting by enabling it to swing left and right, as well as up and down, with up to 25 degrees of motion.

  Elsewhere, the three-spoke steering wheel comes with dials that can adjust driving assistance systems, air suspension settings and drive modes, along with enabling a boost mode. There’s also an 87-inch head-up display with augmented reality, a rear 8-inch entertainment screen behind the centre console, rear seats with backrests that have 30 degrees of motion, a glass roof and a 23-speaker sound system.

  Powering the intelligent cabin with VLM (Vision Language Model) is one of three in-house developing Turing AI chips providing 2,250 TOPS. The remaining two serve to enable the assisted driving features that are improved with what the company calls VLA-OL (Vision Language Action with online reinforcement learning capabilities).

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

   

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