XPeng Launches G9L Five-Seat SUV From 231,800 Yuan as President Says 'No Rival at This Price'

The model was announced on August 3 and opened for pre-orders on August 11. Its official guide price starts at 241,800 yuan, and buyers who pay a 5,000-yuan deposit before 24:00 on November 15 receive a 10,000-yuan limited-time cash benefit. The remaining limited-time prices are 249,800 yuan for the 660 all-wheel-drive Ultra SE, 279,800 yuan for the 660 AWD Ultra, 309,800 yuan for the 755 AWD Ultra Flagship, 249,800 yuan for the 1602 range-extender AWD Ultra SE and 299,800 yuan for the 1602 range-extender AWD Ultra Flagship.

The G9L measures 5,120×1,999×1,782mm with a 3,100mm wheelbase, close in length to the six-seat GX but arranged as what chairman He Xiaopeng calls a "golden large five-seat" layout. Its exterior was designed by a team led by Juan Ma, keeping XPeng's familiar full-width light bars while adding a sportier profile and a tapered rear than the GX. With no third row, the boot holds 1,152L including 230L of underfloor space large enough for two 20-inch suitcases; the floor cover is double-sided and the side walls contain an 18L storage box.

XPeng devoted much of the launch to the seats, which use an "all-body-type AI active fitting" system that senses occupant build and posture and reshapes the cushion and backrest. It relies on 91 sensors and 27 adjustment air cells with 2g sensing precision and 2ms response, and XPeng says the seat models were trained on more than 300,000 human body datasets to suit 98% of users worldwide. The side bolsters provide support during lane changes and a tapping massage engages when fatigue is detected. The front passenger zero-gravity seat has 24-way electric adjustment, an integrated seatbelt and an anti-submarine cushion airbag, and the car offers one-touch simultaneous zero-gravity recline for front and rear occupants plus a bed mode across the first two rows without removing headrests.

For cabin quietness, the G9L uses 122 acoustic components, nine pieces of double-laminated glass and Michelin acoustic tyres, along with RNC active road-noise control; the range-extender version adds ENC active noise cancellation, which XPeng says keeps the noise difference before and after the engine starts below 0.5dB. A smart four-motor executive centre console for the rear stows a table in the central armrest that can be deployed by voice, button or screen and rotated through 360 degrees, with an integrated phone holder and vanity mirror, 50W air-cooled wireless charging and hidden cupholders. Other equipment includes a 12.5L dual-door, dual-temperature-zone air-cooled refrigerator and a 21.4-inch 3K rear entertainment screen controllable by voice, touch or remote, while Ultra and Flagship versions add 270-degree three-sided electric sunshades.

The chassis uses a front double-wishbone and rear H-arm multilink layout, with dual-chamber air suspension standard and 70mm of height adjustment. Rear-wheel steering is also standard, giving a 5.4m minimum turning radius, and buyers can specify staggered 265/40 R22 front and 285/40 R22 rear tyres. The G9L shares the SEPA 3.0 architecture with the GX. The 702 Max pairs a 91.9kWh lithium iron phosphate battery with a 270kW rear motor for 702km of CLTC range and a 0-100km/h time of 6.8 seconds; the all-wheel-drive Ultra SE and Ultra add a 160kW front motor for 430kW of system output; the 755 AWD Ultra Flagship switches to a 110kWh ternary battery for 755km and a 0-100km/h time of 4.45 seconds.

On safety, XPeng cites 16,000-tonne front and rear integrated die-casting and a body torsional rigidity of 56,000N·m/deg. The battery has four layers of underbody armour and an EIS safety chip that monitors cell condition. The company also lists 700mm emergency wading, stable running at 122km/h in rain and in level-12 crosswinds, and 180km/h tyre-blowout stability, along with five minutes of emergency flotation to allow occupants to escape. Braking has triple redundancy, emergency communications dual redundancy and door unlocking quadruple redundancy.

The G9L debuts XOS 6.3.0, which adds time awareness to the vehicle's VLA system. A long time-series architecture allows visual information from the previous 30 seconds to inform current decisions, while the X-Foresight world model predicts what comes next, helping the car judge the positions of surrounding vehicles and pedestrians. A Master Agent coordinates driver assistance, the cabin and body controls, enabling voice commands to pull over or park nearby, and the assisted-driving system gains head-in parking so the tailgate faces out for loading. The 702 Max carries one Turing AI chip with 750 TOPS of effective computing power, the 660 AWD Ultra SE carries two for 1,500 TOPS, and the 660 AWD Ultra and 755 AWD Ultra Flagship carry three for 2,250 TOPS. Max versions run a distilled Turing VLA 2.0 Lite. XPeng positions the G9L alongside the GX rather than below it, offering a two-row car for buyers who do not need a third row.

Beyond China, XPeng plans to sell the G9L in close to 70 countries and regions, with the first right-hand-drive production cars rolling off its Guangzhou global intelligent manufacturing plant. The model will make its European debut at the Paris Motor Show in October and will be built in parallel at the Guangzhou plant and Magna Steyr's factory in Graz, Austria.