Electric cars are undoubtedly the great protagonists of the new Shanghai Motor Show that is currently taking place. There are so many innovations on the part of manufacturers that seem to be increasingly immersed in this new era of electricity and that at the Chinese event have decided to outsource with the first concrete models to be able to enter the market. Not only important brands but also emerging startups which, however, seem ready to compete already with the big names. In this sense comes the example of Xpeng Motors, a Chinese startup, which has repeatedly admitted to be inspired by Tesla and that in Shanghai presents its new electric sedan car capable of becoming the first true "clone" of the Tesla Model S, however, beating it in some features.
Xpeng P7 vs Tesla Model S: the differences
If aesthetically the similarities with the Tesla of Elon Musk may not be too obvious then it is in the software agent on the new Xpeng P7 that the similarities become really evident. So obvious that the American company had decided some time ago to bring Xpeng to trial with the accusation of having stolen Autopilot system development code through a former Tesla employee. Clearly the Chinese company has always denied any involvement in this affair even though some projects showed extreme similarities with Tesla products.
However, everything seems to have been forgotten and Xpeng Motors has recently presented its Xpeng P7 electric car at the Shanghai Motor Show . The company did not want to share too many technical details on the powertrain. However, the electric car should have two engines, one per axle, which allows it to have all-wheel drive. Not only because according to Xpeng, the car will be able to accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in just 4 seconds.
According to the indications, the new Xpeng P7 should even manage to exceed 600km of autonomy even if these are declared in the NEDC homologation cycle, that is the system known to be a bit generous from this point of view. It will therefore be necessary to understand how many kilometers of autonomy the car can make. However, it is not only the kilometers of autonomy that dominate the new Xpeng P7, but above all the new autonomous driving system that the start-up has created to really create curiosity. It's called XPILOT 3.0 and allows the progressive implementation of level 3 autonomous driving. The platform used is that of the powerful NVIDIA Xavier SOC with a Qualcomm Snapadragon 820A processor capable of automating the Chinese car at high levels.
The Xpeng P7 will be assembled in the Zhaoqing plant that is currently under construction. According to the plans of the Chinese startup, the first car deliveries should start in the second quarter of 2020 and the company has already made it known that it had in just a few hours since the car's presentation even more than 3000 orders for the Xpeng P7 even if the price unfortunately it has not yet been externalized.