The 2023 Xiaopeng Automotive Technology Day will be held in Guangzhou on October 24th. Xiaopeng Automobile Chairman He Xiaopeng's forward-looking technical perspective points out that the automotive category will gradually evolve from software defined cars to the AI defined automotive era. Xiaopeng Automobile has deeply applied the large model in multiple business sectors and technology research and development fields, and has made the latest progress in multiple fields such as intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, electric drive system, electronic and electrical, intelligent manufacturing, flying cars, robots, etc.
Meanwhile, as the flagship model of the Xiaopeng "Fuyao" architecture, the Xiaopeng X9 has made its first appearance on this year's Technology Day, and the new car will be unveiled at the Guangzhou Auto Show in November. The Xiaopeng X9 is also the only MPV model in the world with standard rear wheel steering. "Have you ever seen such a flexible MPV?" He Xiaopeng said on-site.
The Xiaopeng X9 is also the first car model to be equipped with the 5th generation Xiaopeng intelligent cockpit system XOS Tianji, and the first to be equipped with the Snapdragon 8295 chip. In terms of power, the new car offers two versions: single motor and dual motor. The single motor version is equipped with a 235 kW motor, while the dual motor version has the front 235 kW and rear 135 kW motors. The car is equipped with 84.5kWh and 101.5kWh battery packs, and the CLTC pure electric range is 610 kilometers, 640 kilometers, and 702 kilometers, respectively.
In the second quarter of 2023, Xiaopeng Automobile suffered losses that exceeded market expectations. According to the financial report, in the second quarter, Xiaopeng Automobile's revenue was 5.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 31.9% and a month on month increase of 25.5%; The net loss was 2.8 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8% year-on-year and 20% month on month, exceeding the market's expected net loss of 21.71 yuan; The gross profit margin of automobiles is -8.6%, 9.1% in the same period of 2022, and -2.5% in the first quarter of 2023.
However, the sales of new energy vehicles, the main business of Xiaopeng Automobile, have shown signs of recovery recently. Delivery data shows that Xiaopeng's sales reached 15300 units in September, a 12% increase compared to the previous month and an 81% increase compared to the same period last year. It has resumed growth for 8 consecutive months; The cumulative delivery volume in the third quarter was 40000 vehicles, an increase of 72% month on month.
In addition to the main business of new energy vehicles, Xiaopeng Huitian, a subsidiary of Xiaopeng, has launched a mass-produced land air integrated flying car with a supercar design. The flight system can automatically fold and fully store, and the steering wheel can be retracted and folded. Xiaopeng Huitian has identified two development paths for flying cars, namely land air integrated flying cars and split flying cars. He Xiaopeng introduced that split body flying cars have a wide range of application scenarios, which not only vertically expand the travel boundaries of individual users, but also serve public utilities such as emergency and rescue, allowing technological exploration results to benefit more public fields.
On Technology Day, Xiaopeng Pengxing, a subsidiary of Xiaopeng, also launched Xiaopeng Automobile's self-developed humanoid bipedal robot PX5, which has the industry's top bipedal walking and obstacle crossing capabilities. With its self-developed high-performance joints, the PX5 can stride indoors and outdoors, perform agile movements, and withstand disturbances and obstacles. From quadruped to bipedal, the new generation of robots has evolved a pair of ultra lightweight humanoid arms and humanoid dexterous hands. The maximum load on a single arm is 3kg, and the maximum terminal line speed is 1m/s. It can provide different grasping and wrapping postures for objects of different shapes, and has the ability to perceive the end touch. In the future, Xiaopeng Pengxing will deeply link intelligent robots with AI cars, heading towards the next stop of the automotive company.