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April 14, Guangzhou City Tianhe District Metropolitan Square near a small Peng G3 smoke fire. According to the video exposed on the spot, the Xiaopeng G3 stopped next to the Xiaopeng charging pile, when the fire was fierce and accompanied by a lot of white smoke.

According to witnesses at the scene, the cause of the fire may be related to the long-term charging of Xiaopeng G3. At present, the cause of the accident is still under investigation, Xiaopeng car did not respond to this matter.

At present, Xiaopeng Automobile has two Xiaopeng G3 and Xiaopeng P7 models on sale, both of which have been on fire. In February and July, Xiaopeng P7 appeared smoke and fire in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. According to the exposed video, a white Xiaopeng P7 parked beside the road, with a lot of smoke and fire at the top of the rear wheel of the vehicle. A few minutes later, the fire brigade arrived at the scene to put out the fire. Finally, the Xiaopeng P7 was burned into a skeleton. It is worth mentioning that this is Xiaopeng P7 since the listing of the first fire incident, but so far Xiaopeng car officials have not announced the specific cause of the incident.

As the first electric vehicle of Xiaopeng Automobile, Xiaopeng G3 has many accidents in China. On January 29, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration issued an announcement saying that 13399 Xiaopeng G3 vehicles produced from March 29,2019 to September 27,2020 were recalled because tinned terminals connecting copper bar screws on inverter DC bus capacitors may cause short circuit between positive and negative electrodes of high voltage DC due to tin whiskers, resulting in no high voltage supply to inverters. If the vehicle is parked, it may not be able to start again; if the vehicle is in a driving state, it may cause the vehicle to lose power. In view of the above problems, Xiaopeng Automobile will replace inverters for vehicles within the recall range free of charge to eliminate hidden dangers.

On the night of the Xiaopeng G3 fire, Xiaopeng Automobile released its third production car, Xiaopeng P5. Xiaopeng automobile P5 positioning compact pure electric car, from the appearance point of view, although the main visual continuation of Xiaopeng P7 design style, but including lights, front surround and other details are brand-new design, but also adopted active air intake grille. From the overall feeling, its visual effect is much inferior to Xiaopeng P7.

In the interior layout, Xiaopeng P5 does not continue the integrated screen design of Xiaopeng P7, but adopts suspended vertical central control display screen, the overall shape is more like Xiaopeng G3. In addition, similar to the Xiaopeng G3, the vehicle also uses a camera on the driver's side A-pillar to detect driver fatigue.

Assisted driving is the highlight of a new car. According to officials, Xiaopeng P5 is the world's first mass-produced lidar intelligent car. The dual-lidar combination provides 150° ultra-wide point cloud vision in front of the whole vehicle, aiming at solving China's complex road conditions and realizing automatic navigation assisted driving under some urban road conditions.

At this conference, Xiaopeng Automobile did not announce the price of Xiaopeng P5. However, there are media predictions, the price of new cars in 170,000 - 230,000 yuan, up and down fluctuations will not exceed 5000 yuan, refer to Xiaopeng P7 if the introduction of lithium iron phosphate version, the price will also have room to reduce.

It is worth mentioning that the release of Xiaopeng P5 failed to save the capital market, or because of the impact of the fire event, Xiaopeng car in the U.S. stock market once fell. By the close of U.S. stocks, Xiaopeng Auto was down 7.30% to $32.89 per share, with a total market value of $26 billion and a loss of $2.039 billion. Although Tesla, NIO and Ideal all fell sharply on that day, in contrast, Xiaopeng's decline was much higher than that of the above three car companies.

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