XPeng registered 7,900 vehicles between August 4 and 10, according to industry data shared on Chinese social media this Tuesday.
The figures declined by 13.2% from the 9,100 vehicles sold in the crossover week from July to August.
The Guangzhou-based brand has sold about 222,000 vehicles in its domestic market since the beginning of the year.
XPeng ranked fifth regarding Chinese new energy vehicle brands.
BYD lead sales with over 54,800 units, while US brand Tesla secured the third place, with 13,400 EVs, after Geely Galaxy brand’s 20,000 units.
Stellantis-backed Leapmotor and Huawei‘s Aito registered 9,300 and 7,000 vehicles, respectively. Tech giant Xiaomi listed 6,800 vehicles last week.
Li Auto, which launched its second fully electric model, the Li i8, in late July, sold 5,300 vehicles last week.
Nio Group‘s sales were 22.8% down week over week to 6,100 EVs. Nio brand’s vehicles represented 2,162 units of the group’s total, meaning that it was outperformed by its main competitor Zeekr, which sold 3,300 vehicles.
Nio‘s family-oriented sub-brand Onvo saw its weekly registrations in China drop 13.5% in the August 4-10 period, while the most recent Firefly sold 684 units, a sequential decline of 12.3%.
Over the weekend, XPeng‘s founder and CEO He Xiaopeng revealed that he discussed 24-hour endurance testing with Xiaomi‘s co-founder and CEO Lei Jun.
“Previously, Lei and I had a dedicated discussion about whether truly high-performance pure electric vehicles should undergo a 24-hour endurance test,” he wrote on Weibo.
Xiaopeng added that “this is an extremely difficult and intense test” and that “Lei suggested that if possible, such testing should be done,” in which they “share similar views.”
Noting that XPeng‘s P7 has been taken to “the high-speed ring test track,” the chief executive revealed that the brand is “planning to conduct a 24-hour endurance test” on the sedan.
The refreshed iteration of the P7 was unveiled last week, introducing improvements in range, performance, and smart driving capabilities.
The brand said the official launch will take place later this month.
Last week, the extended-range version of its X9 multi-purpose van was also unveiled by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), confirming that XPeng is walking away from only producing fully electric models for the last eleven years.
Data from China’s Passenger Car Association showed on Monday that the Mona M03 model — only available in its domestic market — represented nearly 43% of global vehicle deliveries in July.
