Xpeng G9L debuts August 11: 800V five-seat SUV opens pre-sales same day
Xpeng will unveil the G9L large five-seat SUV in Guangzhou on August 11 and start pre-sales that evening.
- 450 km in 9 minutes
- 2,250 TOPS
- 6.74 million+ km
- 300,000 yuan (~$44,180)
What Happened
Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) will reveal its G9L large five-seat SUV and start taking pre-orders on August 11, with the ceremony planned for 7:00 p.m. Beijing Time (7:00 a.m. US Eastern Time) in Guangzhou, where the company is headquartered. The company said on Weibo on Monday that the event doubles as the model's world premiere. Xpeng began teasing the SUV on August 3 as a large five-seat technology flagship aiming to set a benchmark in China's 300,000-yuan (roughly $44,180) price bracket. The G9L joins the six-seat GX, which arrived in May, as Xpeng's twin flagship models on shared core platform technology aimed at different family-focused audiences.
The project was launched about three years ago, and Xpeng disclosed on August 7 that it had been road-tested in 26 countries and regions under complex road conditions and extreme environments, logging more than 6.74 million km. The SUV is built on an 800V architecture and can recover 450 km of range in 9 minutes.
Xpeng starts teasing the G9L as a large five-seat technology flagship.
Xpeng reveals the G9L's road-test program across 26 countries and regions with over 6.74 million km of mileage.
Xpeng announces the August 11 debut and pre-sales event.
Global debut and pre-sales start at 7:00 p.m. Beijing Time in Guangzhou.
Filings with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology list the G9L at 5,120 mm long, 1,999 mm wide and 1,782 to 1,795 mm tall, with a 3,100 mm wheelbase and a curb weight of about 2.72 tons. A dual-motor all-wheel-drive system combines a 160 kW front motor and a 270 kW rear motor for 430 kW, and the car's top speed is 200 km/h. Xpeng will offer the G9L in battery-electric and extended-range forms, continuing its dual-powertrain approach.
- 91.9 kWh, CLTC range 672 km
- 110 kWh, CLTC range 805 km
- 63.3 kWh LFP, WLTC electric range 325-350 km
- First major update to Xpeng's second-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, delivering up to 2,250 TOPS of computing power.
- Claimed world-first ability to recline front and rear zero-gravity seats together with one tap, turning the cabin into a bed longer than 1.8 meters without removing headrests.
- AI active-fit zero-gravity seats that adapt to body changes in real time and fit nearly 98% of body types globally.
- Safety package including ABTS-integrated dual pre-tensioning, force-limiting seatbelts and anti-submarine cushion airbags.
He Xiaopeng, Xpeng's chairman, said that when the project was approved he asked the development team to create a large five-seat technology flagship and beat 99% of rivals in the 300,000-yuan segment. Xpeng positions the G9L against the Li Auto L7, NIO ES7 and Tesla Model Y High Performance. The company delivered 38,027 vehicles worldwide in July, a 3.57% year-on-year increase but a 5.23% drop from June, and 204,004 in the first seven months of the year, down 12.78% year-on-year.
Previously from Xpeng
Xpeng spent 2026 building out the AI foundation the G9L draws on. In June it introduced X-Mind, a world-model framework that enables vehicle AI to predict and reason proactively, and in May it announced that VLA 2.0, its second-generation assisted-driving system, had entered mass production with assisted driving accounting for more than half of mileage in its first month.
- XPENG unveils X-Mind world model framework for proactive autonomous driving reasoning
- XPENG Unveils World Model Blueprint and VLA 2.0 Mass Production at CVPR 2026
Background drawn from MotorClaw's earlier coverage of Xpeng's official releases.
Why this matters
The G9L is Xpeng's global flagship for China's 300,000-yuan segment, where it will compete with the Li Auto L7, NIO ES7, and Tesla Model Y High Performance. Its 800-volt platform and 2,250-TOPS VLA system are aimed at family buyers, and the model extends Xpeng's dual-powertrain strategy as July global deliveries slipped from June and year-to-date deliveries remain down.
Terms in This Story
- EREV
- Extended-range electric vehicle — an electric vehicle with a small internal-combustion engine used only to generate electricity to recharge the battery.
- CLTC
- China Light-duty Vehicle Test Cycle — the standard used in China to estimate an electric vehicle's range.
- WLTC
- Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Cycle — an international standard for estimating a vehicle's fuel or electric range.
- TOPS
- Trillions of Operations Per Second — a measure of how much computing power an AI chip or system can handle.
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