Xpeng is likely one of the latest EV manufacturers to land in Australia and in latest weeks, a number of sightings of their mid-sized electrical SUV, the G6, have been reported. Many of those have been take a look at autos and have been noticed each in NSW and Victoria.
Now, one other mannequin has been noticed in NSW by EV fanatic Jason B, who shared photographs of the G9 giant electrical SUV mannequin on X.
@Rizflip @LudicrousFeed Xpeng G9 in LHD at Wollongong. Perhaps for show, appeared fairly good to sincere pic.twitter.com/HrTDijPc9b
— Jason Ball (@volvoman101) July 13, 2024
The noticed mannequin has an opulent orange inside and is in a left-hand-drive configuration. Wanting into the inside, a big display could be seen which spans from the centre to the passenger aspect.
The flat-bottom steering wheel additionally has a display behind it which just like the G6 SUV is prone to have key driving and driver help data displayed.
From the skin, the black G9 has flush door handles to assist with the aerodynamics of the massive EV. It additionally had a black Xpeng badge on the boot lid within the rear.
For these taking a look at a big electrical SUV, there aren’t too many choices available on the market so the G9 could possibly be choice for these in search of extra space in an electrical SUV.
In latest occasions, Kia has launched the EV9 which has seen modest gross sales of simply over 300 within the first 6 months.
Xpeng formally launched the G9 again in 2022. At the moment, the model claimed that the G9 had the quickest charging speeds of any electrical SUV.
The G9 relies on an 800-volt high-voltage platform. Variants of the SUV are able to charging the automotive at as much as 430 kW on the proper charger.
In accordance with Xpeng, on the firm’s 480 kW ultrarapid chargers, this EV from 10% to 80% in quarter-hour.
In the meantime, the quickest variations of the G9 SUV with AWD can speed up to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds.
Xpeng has been promoting automobiles in varied European nations for a number of years now. These embrace Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The G9 is out there on the market within the Netherlands with some stocked autos beginning at €60,478 or $A97,600. This is able to put the G9 in shut competitors with the Kia EV9 which begins at $97,000 for the Air variant.
It’s unclear if the G9 will probably be bought in Australia however the newest sighting might present a touch of what’s to return. We look ahead to listening to extra in regards to the G9 however in all probability after the G6’s native pricing has been introduced in September.
Riz is the founding father of carloop primarily based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception stories and traits. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for automobiles, notably EVs and needs to assist scale back transport emissions in Australia. He at the moment drives a crimson Tesla Mannequin 3.