On July 18th, XPENG officially announced that XPENG P7 had become the fastest electric car at the Zhejiang International Circuit.
Test conditions: temperature of 30°C, dry track surface. The tested model was equipped with XPENG’s high-performance package, which costs an extra 42,000 yuan and includes Brembo front brakes, Ohlins DFV shock absorbers, 20-inch forged wheels, and orange seat belts. The Ohlins DFV shock absorbers are adjustable in 22 stages both in the front and in the rear, and XPENG’s engineers recommend adjusting them to 5 in the front and 5 in the rear for this circuit.
Yesterday, XPENG P7 ran several laps at the circuit equipped with Ohlins DFV shock absorbers, which performed pretty well on the track. You could clearly feel the difference between the car with the high-performance package and the one without it when pushed to a certain speed.
Looking at the rankings, if we ignore the test conditions, XPENG P7 is faster than Model 3 and ES6. It would be interesting to see their performance under the same conditions…
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