One other 12 months, one other “facelift” for the Xpeng X9, which went on sale in Thailand final week – simply two weeks after it was launched in China. This time, the modifications, seen on the ongoing Bangkok Worldwide Motor Present (BIMS), are far more substantial, albeit not ones that we haven’t seen earlier than.
That’s as a result of the seven-seater electrical MPV’s new design touches have truly been lifted from the PowerX vary extender mannequin, revealed within the Center Kingdom in October. These embody a brand new entrance bumper with a bigger centre air consumption that replaces the body-coloured hexagonal array, fitted with an energetic grille shutter. The latter works with the also-new nook air curtains to chop drag by 22 factors.
In the meantime, the rear bumper contains a body-coloured decrease part with a black valance – the inverse of what was supplied earlier than, in different phrases. The brand new-for-2025 20-inch multi-spoke wheels with Rolls-Royce-style self-righting centre caps have been retained for higher-end fashions, whereas the color palette has been expanded to incorporate two new colors – Polar Violet and Lambent Cyan.
The modifications are simply as minor on the within, with a brand new steering wheel that centralises the Xpeng brand and provides a 360-degree digicam shortcut button and a “Mode” change, plus ayous wooden trim and a brand new cloud rose and brown and white color scheme.
Past that, the automotive is similar to earlier than, sporting the identical metallic ripple-effect air-con vents, a large 17.3-inch infotainment touchscreen, a ten.25-inch digital instrument show, a 21.4-inch roof-mounted rear monitor, a rear fridge and 18-way power-adjustable second-row captain’s chairs with heating, air flow, therapeutic massage and one-touch “zero gravity” recline.
It’s good to see that the export X9 additionally positive aspects options added to final 12 months’s Chinese language-market automotive, akin to soft-closing entrance doorways, ISOFIX baby seat mounts on each outer second-row seats (beforehand solely on the appropriate aspect) and the third row, and bodily rear aspect window switches. The latter replaces the previous capacitive ones.
Mechanically, the X9 EV’s single entrance motor has been boosted by 27 PS (20 kW) to 346 PS (255 kW), whereas torque holds regular at 450 Nm. New for international markets is a dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup that produces a sum whole of 537 PS (395 kW) and 640 Nm.
Battery sizes have additionally been elevated to 94.8 kWh (up from 84.5 kWh) for the LFP pack and 110 kWh (up from 101.5 kWh) for the NMC unit; the dual-motor all-wheel-drive model is barely obtainable with the bigger battery. This, along with the aerodynamic enhancements, have netted an honest enhance in WLTP vary – 535 km (up from 500 km) for the smaller battery and 615 km (up from 590 km) with the larger one, each with the only motor. The twin-motor AWD model clearly has a shorter vary, at 580 km.
Charging speeds have additionally seen a large leap to a whopping 537 kW for the 94.8 kWh battery and 542 kW for the 110 kWh pack (beforehand 317 kW max). All fashions now cost from 10 to 80% in a blistering 12 minutes, down from 20 minutes – deeply spectacular for such giant batteries.
Final however not least, the X9 EV positive aspects the most recent Turing AI chip for driver assists, providing as much as 2,250 TOPs of energy. In China, this permits a second-generation visual-language-action (VLA) mannequin that’s stated to enhance the automotive’s highly-automated driving options. The corporate is working in direction of full Stage 4 autonomy with the system in “one to 3 years,” it stated in a press launch. Clearly, this received’t be supplied in export markets, which get the standard Stage 2 semi-autonomous driving performance.
Costs begin at 2,399,000 baht (RM292,400) for the bottom 94.8 kWh Premium mannequin, rising as much as 2,599,000 baht (RM316,800) for the 110 kWh Govt and a pair of,799,000 baht (RM341,200) for the top-spec Luxurious AWD. On condition that product updates are likely to arrive in Malaysia fairly quickly after they have been launched in China, count on the revamped MPV to go on sale imminently, probably as soon as CKD native meeting kicks off.
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