XPeng P5 Test Drive

Is it comfortable to lie flat in P5?

XPeng P5 is a highly anticipated model recently because its price, ranging from 160,000 to 230,000 yuan, falls within the mainstream consumption range and electric vehicles in this price range are not plentiful. From a product perspective, P5 has many highlights. For example, it is the first mass-produced vehicle equipped with a lidar in the world, it can achieve high-level assisted driving in the city in the future, and you can even lie flat and watch movies in the car. Additionally, P5 also achieves a good level in basic configuration and driving experience.

At one point, I was also puzzled. After all, P5 is not XPeng’s flagship product, so why spend so much effort on these cool features? On second thought, XPeng’s philosophy of car-making is completely different from that of traditional cars. P5’s whole series has a torsion beam rear suspension and a single motor front-wheel drive. The power of the high-end and low-end models is the same. Obviously, when creating P5, XPeng did not regard driving as the biggest selling point. On the contrary, with limited costs, it raised the level of driving assistance and other functions so high that other competitors could hardly catch up in the short term, even more advanced than XPeng’s own flagship P7. It is really ruthless to sacrifice oneself to gain an advantage in future competition.

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