Eye-catching new model replaces iconic P7 which was the first model from a pure electric Chinese brand to reach 100,000 deliveries.
XPeng has officially unveiled the new P7 electric fastback, a futuristic retake on the iconic design of the original P7 that debuted back in 2020.
Highlights of the new model include a maximum CLTC range of 820km, a silicon-carbide 800-volt platform, and some as-yet-unrevealed sporty elements.
The model received 10,000 pre-orders within just six minutes and 37 seconds of its pre-sale opening in China, suggesting the more sporty and divisively styled model might still prove to be quite popular.
Prices have yet to be announced but pre-sales are now open with refundable deposits of just RMB 99 (£10 / $14) that will reduce purchase cost by RMB 3,000 (£311 / $418). An official launch is expected in late August.
The 2025 XPeng P7, being dubbed The Next P7, features a futuristic, sleek, and minimalistic design that builds upon the iconic shape of the original model but extends it while adding the practicality of a hatch.
A new interpretation of XPeng’s X-MART face now features vertical and horizontal lighting elements on a closed and shark-nosed front with the P7 boasting a drag coefficient of just 0.201Cd, while the long bonnet houses a 56-litre frunk.
It features a selection of bold 20-inch alloy wheel designs, housing performance Brembo brake calipers, blacked-out A-pillars, and a slightly pinched waistline just ahead of swollen rear arches, similar to the original P7 design.
The same vertical and horizontal lights feature at the rear with an active rear spoiler, body-coloured badges, and an electronic hatch into a 575-litre boot.
In the cockpit, a minimalist yet sporty design features XPeng’s new 87-inch augmented reality head-up display, co-developed with Huawei, a wide and slim display behind the steering wheel, and a 15.6-inch central screen running the Snapdragon 8295 processor.
This screen boasts a tri-axis mechanised system that allows the screen to tilt 15-degrees to each side, and 10-degrees up and down, similar to that on the HiPhi Z, and it can tilt towards the person speaking to the AI assistant.
Elsewhere, there’s extensive dual-zone ambient lighting, an abundance of soft-touch materials, optional Nappa leather on the seats, and twin 50W vented wireless chargers within a chrome framing on the centre console.
Both front seats come with 16-way adjustability, including 50mm of base cushion adjustment, and both are heated and ventilated, though experience up close with the car suggest the massage function might be reserved for the driver’s seat.
In the rear seats, the P7 does without the electric backrest adjustment of the P7+, offering good foot and knee room, but with slightly limited head space as a result of the rakish coupe roofline.
There is, however, an 8-inch screen for rear occupants, for ventilation, seat heating controls, and entertainment, while rear passengers also benefit from the 23-speaker sound system in the car.
Measuring 5,017mm long, 1,970mm wide, 1,427mm tall, and with a wheelbase of 3,008mm, the new P7 is shorter in both length and height than the P7+, but wider and with a marginally longer wheelbase.
It sits on XPeng’s 800-volt high-voltage platform, enabling faster charging and improved efficiency, and comes in both rear and dual motor variants, with both featuring a 270kW motor on the rear axle, and the dual motor getting an additional 167kW motor on the front.
The entry-level single motor version gets a range of 702km from a 74.9kWh pack, while the long-range single motor version, packing a 94.3kWh battery, gets as much as 820km, with the flagship dual motor version getting 750km, all on the CLTC cycle.
5C fast charging with a peak charge speed of 486kW enables the P7 to add as much as 512km of range in just 10 minutes, while a heat pump system helps improve range by as much as 15 percent in cold weather.
The P7 will come equipped with three of XPeng’s self-developed Turing AI chips, that boast three-times the power of an NVIDIA Orin-X chip and twice the power of Tesla’s HW4 chip, giving the car as much as 2,250 TOPS of processing power.
Two of these chips will support the XNGP Eagle-eye vision and radar-based autonomous system, which uses the vision-language model (VLM) to process situations in real time, meaning all processing can take place on the car without needing connection to an external platform.
The system is designed to be future-proofed and is expected to be rolled out globally in time but with no timeline confirmed for it yet.
