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On the evening of March 17, Xiaopeng CEO he Xiaopeng revealed at the latest earnings call that Xiaopeng's new SUV model, Xiaopeng G6, will be unveiled at the Shanghai Motor Show, which opens in April. At present, the new car has appeared in the new car declaration catalogue of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It is expected that the new car will be launched and delivered in the middle of this year. The price range may be in the range of 200000-300000 yuan. After listing, it will compete with Tesla Model Y.

According to the new car declaration chart, the new car design is very similar to Tesla Model Y. The new car adopts a new design style, and the front face is a closed grille design. Unlike the current Xiaopeng car models on sale, the new car embeds Xiaopeng brand LOGO in the middle of the smoked through headlight belt, with a black-bottomed brand logo and a white body, which looks highly recognizable. Inside the opening on both sides of the front face is the upper and lower layered design, the top is the far and near light group, the bottom is the installation location of the lidar, the lidar layout is the same as Xiaopeng P7i, just fused to the split headlight. It should be noted that the new car will become the first integrated application casting model in the domestic brand.

On the side of the body, the new car adopts sedan car-type SUV styling design, the roof arc line is very smooth, and the obvious back-slipping trend is formed from the B-pillar. At the same time, the curved decoration line of the wheel eyebrow position enhances the sense of movement for the whole car. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4753/1920/1650mm, the wheelbase is 2890mm, and the positioning of medium-sized sedan car SUV. For comparison, the length, width and height of Tesla Model Y are 4750/1921/1624mm, and the wheelbase is 2890mm.

The rear part is another highlight of the new car, the rear design of the new car is round and smooth, the rear LOGO is also embedded in the center of the through lamp group, and provides different styles of rear windwindows and electric tail wings, the rear windshield has an oval profile and looks more refined.

In the interior part, the previously exposed espionage photos show that the new car adopts a new design style, equipped with embedded full liquid crystal instruments and suspended central control screen, and an entertainment screen in front of the new car passenger. The steering wheel multi-function key area is composed of four buttons and rollers, and the overall sense of science and technology is high.

In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with front and rear dual motors of models YS230XY01F30X and TZ230XY01F30X, of which the single motor rear drive version of the maximum power 218kW, equipped with innovative aviation lithium iron phosphate, ternary lithium battery; the maximum power of the dual motor is the first 140kW / rear 218kW, equipped with China Chuangxin Airlines ternary lithium battery.

According to the plan, in addition to Xiaopeng G6, Xiaopeng will also launch Xiaopeng MPV with internal code name H93 this year. As the new car is still covered with heavy camouflage materials, I do not know the details of the design, but it can be clearly seen that the exterior design of the new car still continues the family design style. The front face is also designed with closed design, with inverted trapezoid grille design below, and a penetrating LED light belt between the front engine hatch and the front of the car. The position of the split lamp group is relatively outside, and the recognition is also good. In the rear part, it is expected that the new car taillights will be designed with through-type taillights. He Xiaopeng revealed that the new car will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.

According to the official website, Xiaopeng currently sells five models: Xiaopeng P7, P5, G3i, G9 and P7i, of which the P7i went on sale on March 10. A total of four new models were launched with a price range of 24.99 yuan to 339900 yuan. The new car is the first new car released after Xiaopeng announced the adjustment of its organizational structure. as a mid-term revamped model of Xiaopeng P7, its appearance and design style is basically the same as that of P7. However, the vehicle function, comfortable configuration, three electricity system, handling performance, intelligent platform and other aspects have been upgraded. Xiaopeng P7 is currently Xiaopeng's highest-selling model, and P7i will continue the important task of boosting brand sales after the launch of P7i.

According to the latest figures, Xiaopeng delivered 5218 vehicles in January and 6010 in February 2023, down 59.6 and 3.45 per cent respectively from a year earlier. A total of 11228 new cars were delivered in the first two months of 2023, down 41.36 percent from the same period last year. It was the only car company in the "Wei Xiaoli" camp that showed a decline. By comparison, ideal cars delivered a total of 31761 vehicles in the first two months, an increase of 53.57 percent over the same period last year. Lulai delivered 20663 cars, an increase of 30.92 percent.

In recent months, Xiaopeng car market sales performance is in a state of weakness, for Xiaopeng Motor, Xiaopeng Motor urgently needs to speed up product iteration and launch new products to improve market performance, as for new cars on the market, whether Xiaopeng car sales can hit bottom rebound remains to be seen.

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