XPeng registrations fell to 5,820 vehicles in China between July 7 and 13, according to registration data shared on social media this Tuesday.
The figures represent a 9.8% decline from the 6,500 units recorded in the first week of July, when registrations had already dipped due to the typical slowdown seen at the start of each quarter in the automotive industry.
Last week’s figures marked the lowest result since early June, when the brand posted 4,190 units insured.
XPeng started last week delivering its new SUV G7. The model is priced from 195,800 yuan — equivalent to $27,300 — and targets Tesla Model Y and Xiaomi’s recently launched YU7.
Sales for the mid-size SUV, which is the first model to feature XPeng’s in-house developed AI Turing chip, started three days earlier — with the carmaker receiving 10,000 firm orders in the first nine minutes.
The brand delivered 34,611 vehicles globally in June — its eighth consecutive month above 30,000 units.
From those, 14,111 were Mona M03s, the brand’s best-selling model, only available at its domestic market. The sedan accounted for 40.7% of all vehicles handed over. Its entry-level is priced from 119,800 yuan, equivalent to $16,700.
Late last week, XPeng surpassed 800,000 cumulative vehicle deliveries since handing over its first car in December 2018.
This marks a doubling in deliveries compared to about a year and a half ago, when the company had reached 400,000 handovers.
The Guangzhou-based company announced that sales for the refreshed iterations of the G6 and G9 SUVs have started in several markets in Europe last Friday, with deliveries set to begin “at the end of the summer.”
XPeng participated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with the refreshed G6, which happened from July 10 to July 13, in England.
Founder and CEO He Xiaopeng revealed that the P7+ was also present at the show — the first time the model appeared in Europe, despite no official plans for sales of the model on the continent yet.
It was “the first time a Chinese AI-powered car has appeared at this holy ground for global car enthusiasts,” according to a post on Weibo by the chief executive.
Among best-selling new energy vehicle (NEV) Chinese brands last week, BYD continued to lead the ranking, with about 48,800 hybrid and fully electric vehicles sold from July 7 to 13.
Huawei’s Aito and Stellantis-backed Leapmotor were the best-selling NEV newcomers, with 8,600 vehicles registered each — despite sales of both having dropped week over week from 9,400 units.
Xiaomi‘s sales rose to 6,700 EVs, from the 4,900 units sold in the prior week.
Last week, Tesla sold 12,300 vehicles, from which 9,400 were Model Ys — which XPeng‘s G7 and Xiaomi’s YU7 are set to compete with — and 2,900 were Model 3s. Figures more than doubled from the first week of July.
Premium brands Nio and Zeekr sold 2,400 and 3,100 vehicles, respectively. This means that the Geely-backed brand continued to ouperform the Shanghai-based EV maker — which recorded a new three-month low last week.
Nio Group’s sub-brand Onvo, which unveiled last week its second model, the L90 SUV, saw weekly registrations drop to 1,140 units. The recent Firefly brand accounted for 550 of the total units sold by the group.
