More new Chinese models to follow – there’s even a truck with a built-in personal helicopter in development
, whose use of the letter Y would ensure you a haul of points, even without landing on a triple-word-score square.brand Xpeng may just have beaten it. It may be a shorter word, but that X pays serious Scrabble dividends., which has been in business for several decades now, and which began as a battery maker before it ever started making cars, Xpeng is a far more recent company. It was established in the Chinese city of Guangzhou as recently as 2014, and only put its first car on sale in 2018.
The G6 is crawling with digital assistance, not just in terms of driving but also in more ephemeral areas, such as a one-touch on-screen button that sets up the cabin for ‘mindfulness’ or another that converts the seats into a lie-flat double-bed There are also familiar column stalks – taken straight from the Mercedes parts bin, or at least the same supplier, as far as we can tell – and with roomy back seats and a decent 571-litre boot, the G6 feels less like a new arrival and more like a thoroughly mature product. EV doubters may be mollified, to an extent, by the fact that our test car was showing 500km available on an 80 per cent charge, and that it recorded 20kWh/100km on a brief test drive.
Of probably more importance for most consumers is a substantial list of standard equipment, including a panoramic glass roof, heated and chilled seats, heated steering wheel, ambient lighting and Xpeng’s own “XOpera” sound system which seemed suitably symphonic.
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