XPeng‘s weekly registrations in China rose to 6,400 units from June 9 to June 15, data shared on social media showed on Tuesday.
In the prior week, the brand had sold 4,200 vehicles, its lowest figures since mid-February. Last week’s numbers show an increase of 52.4% in sales.
Leapmotor and Li Auto ranked above XPeng, with 8,800 and 7,900 units, respectively, while Xiaomi was listed below, with 5,600 SU7s.
Tesla was the top-selling brand when it comes to only battery electric vehicles (BEV), setting a new quarterly sales record with 15,500 EVs. It is the second-best new energy vehicle (NEV) brand after BYD.
China’s giant BYD sold 70,300 fully electric and hybrid models last week. So far this year, the company registered more than 1.2 million units in its domestic country.
From January 1 to June 15, XPeng has sold 158,100 vehicles in China. The company is positioned as the fourth best-selling NEV brand in the country.
It aims for second quarter deliveries to be between 102,000 and 108,000 vehicles. In China alone, the company registered 69,640 vehicles from March 31 to June 15.
The company is expanding further overseas, announcing its arrival across several markets in Europe over the last month — Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
Since the start of the second quarter, the brand has averaged 6,331 units sold per week in its home market.
XPeng opened pre-orders for the G7 SUV last week, at a pre-sale price of 235,800 yuan ($32,850). The Guangzhou-based brand secured 10,000 orders in less than an hour.
The model is positioned to rival Xiaomi’s upcoming YU7 SUV and the refreshed Tesla Model Y.
Last week, at the pre-launch event, founder and CEO He Xiaopeng stated that the XPeng-developed AI Turing Chip has a computing power of 2,200 tera-operations per second (TOPS).
The chief executive claimed that the chip is “three times greater than that of the leading autonomous driving chip, [Nvidia’s] Orin-X.”
The SUV is positioned between XPeng‘s entry-level SUV G6 and its family-oriented G9, both of which have been revamped earlier this year.
The refreshed versions of the G6 and the G9 will be launched in Europe in mid-July, the brand revealed last week.
The company has also unveiled refreshed versions of its P7 and X9 models, while debuting the P7+ and the new Mona M03 Max trim in its domestic market.
The best-selling model, which is the first one under the Mona series, is not expected to be launched overseas.
