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The Xpeng P7 electrical conveyance (EV) has made its Australian nationalist debut successful Melbourne, but the automaker says it's yet to determine whether the striking liftback, a rival to the Tesla Model 3, Mazda 6e and BYD Seal, volition articulation its section lineup.
The second-generation 'E29' P7 was launched successful China successful 2025 and was among the vehicles displayed astatine the brand's Australian relaunch this week arsenic a factory-backed operation.
The P7 was the lone accumulation exemplary displayed that the automaker hasn't locked successful for section showrooms (discounting the Aircraft Carrier), with 5 models including 4 SUVs and a radical mover set to get implicit the adjacent six months.
The Xpeng GX flagship SUV is besides acceptable to get successful 2027 astatine the earliest, though nonstop timing is yet to beryllium decided.
"We are looking astatine the marketplace currently," Xpeng vice president and president Brian Gu told media including CarExpert, erstwhile asked astir the P7's chances of a section launch.
"I spot a inclination that sedans becoming much marginalised arsenic a format, truthful we are reasoning precise hard whether we privation to bring much sedans to this market. Obviously that determination hasn't been made yet."
The P7 measures 5017mm long, 1970mm wide and 1427mm high, and uses a rear-mounted 270kW/465Nm electrical centrifugal driving the rear wheels successful the entry-level grade, paired with a 74.9kWh lithium robust phosphate (LFP) battery.
Claimed scope connected the CLTC rhythm is 702km, rising to arsenic overmuch arsenic 820km successful higher grades utilizing a 92.2kWh lithium ternary battery.
This larger artillery is besides fitted to the flagship Ultra, which produces 437kW/695Nm done a dual-motor all-wheel thrust system, for a claimed 0-100km/h clip of 3.7 seconds and a 750km CLTC range.
With Xpeng pitching itself arsenic a rival to Tesla, the P7's cardinal rival successful Australia would beryllium the (smaller) Model 3 sedan, which starts astatine $54,900 earlier on-road costs here, with the 2 EVs priced comparatively intimately successful China.
While Tesla income person been resurgent successful 2026, some globally and successful Australia, it has been the Model Y SUV doing the dense lifting, making headlines by becoming the archetypal EV to apical the Australian income charts successful May.
Tesla doesn't study idiosyncratic planetary income by model, but Electric Vehicle Council figures amusement Model 3 income person fallen successful Australia, with 3192 delivered successful the archetypal six months of the year, down 14.1 per cent connected the aforesaid play successful 2025.
Meanwhile, 20,396 Model Ys were delivered successful Australia successful the archetypal fractional of this year, putting it 3rd wide down the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux utes.
Bucking the inclination is the BYD Seal, which is up 64.9 per cent year-to-date with 2654 deliveries, blistery connected the heels of the declining Model 3.
Regardless, the P7 would participate a comparatively low-volume conception contempt humble maturation this year, with Xpeng apt keeping a keen oculus connected income of the caller Mazda 6e electrical liftback, lawsuit deliveries of which statesman this month.
The different caller arrival, the Kia EV4 electrical sedan, has contributed lone 277 income to Kia's 41,846 year-to-date deliveries, contempt grounds EV marketplace stock driven by record substance prices.
In China, Xpeng besides offers the M03 sedan, which is person successful size to the Model 3 and EV4, but is aimed astatine younger buyers and priced overmuch lower. At the different extremity of the scale, the P7+ is different ample liftback with much sedate styling than the P7.
Passenger cars person mostly been replaced by SUVs successful presumption of popularity successful Australia.
The Holden Commodore sedan and wagon scope past topped the yearly income charts successful 2010, with the Mazda 3 that took the apical spot successful 2011-12 and the Toyota Corolla that took it from 2013-15 some offered arsenic a hatch oregon sedan.
While SUVs person grown successful popularity, it's really utes that person taken the apical spot each twelvemonth from 2016 onwards – archetypal the Toyota HiLux, and past the Ford Ranger.
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