Additionally, Xpeng announced they were expanding their existing 24 outlets in Australia\/New Zealand to around 50 with the aim of placing most Australian customers within a 40-minute drive of an XPENG showroom.<\/p>\n
Xpeng also announced they planned to address the oft-perceived issue with new vehicle brands: the timely delivery of service and parts. \u00a0<\/p>\n
This is being done through delivery of a training program for technicians and dealer staff, establishing three support offices (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane), a 24\/7 help line and a large parts warehouse in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Servicing is also not going to be limited to Xpeng dealers: authorised and independent repairers will soon be able to access eligible XPENG service and repair information under MVIS (the Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) \u2014 meaning owners can choose an independent workshop for service and repair work. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Circling back to the new models being launched: two were formally shown at the brand-day event, these being the X9 luxury seven-seat BEV people mover \u2013 priced at $89,900 before on-road costs \u2013 and the L03 medium SUV\/crossover BEV.<\/p>\n
Whilst the other two models were shown in a \u2018black room\u2019 to the attending media \u2013 details of these are still under embargo until Xpeng release them formally later this year. What can be released at this stage is that one will be launched in November this year and the second early in 2027.<\/p>\n
Also on show were Xpeng\u2019s vertical take-off and landing (VTOP) \u2018flying car\u2019 and the vehicle that caries it \u2013 dubbed the \u2018Land Aircraft Carrier\u2019.<\/p>\n
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Xpeng also announced plans to accelerate their expansion in Australia by launching all future new models in sync with China, plus to move rapidly into commercialising leading edge vehicle AI applications such as autonomous vehicle tech, robotaxis, flying cars \u2026 and even humanoid robots.<\/p>\n
That last was shown to the audience in a video as moving with an almost human-like gait and natural looking arm movements. Named \u2018Iron\u2019, the robot is said to have the \u2018ability to reason and decide autonomously rather than follow pre-programmed routines, with human-like motion and interaction\u2019. Xpeng expect to start rolling examples of Iron out as AI-powered retail sales assistant in Chinese stores in Q1 2027 and in selected overseas stores later that year.<\/p>\n
Summing up: the overall impression from the event is Xpeng seem to have taken a leaf out of Elon Musk\u2019s playbook with massive expansion plans beyond just vehicles based on an AI future. <\/p>\n
However, Xpeng also seem to have learnt from Tesla\u2019s stumbles by building a more traditional R&D based company rather than rely on the single-minded vision of an individual (and arguably massively flawed) genius. <\/p>\n
We shall have to wait and see which of these two similar, yet very different, visions of an AI and robotic future rolls out more smoothly and\/or lasts.<\/p>\n
You can find The Driven\u2019s detailed EV sales data here:\u00a0Australian electric vehicle sales by month in 2026; by model and by brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n And you can sign up for The Driven\u2019s free daily newsletter and get the latest EV news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox.<\/a><\/p>\n Bryce Gaton is an expert on electric vehicles and contributor for The Driven<\/a> and Renew Economy<\/a>. He has been working in the EV sector since 2008 and is currently working as EV electrical safety trainer\/supervisor for the University of Melbourne. He also provides support for the EV Transition to business, government and the public through his EV Transition consultancy EVchoice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xpeng appears to be a company in a hurry. Founded in 2014, Xpeng may have only been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-814109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7a114a781c2ac36fc214b0d9a61b109ded7ad31692e9d44c4e1d94abe36808fe.png\")
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