Xpeng will develop its first electric vehicle system with extended range: EV range of 430 km, combined 1,400 km

At Xpeng’s AI Day event today, the company announced that it is developing a new Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV) system that will enter production in the future. This represents an interesting shift for the brand that has exclusively produced pure electric vehicles (EVs) since its inception.

It’s called the Kunpeng Super Electric System and is said to deliver an all-electric range of 430 km and a combined range of 1,400 km with the range extender in play. The company claims that these figures are a significant improvement over existing EREV systems currently on the market.

As reported by AutoNewsChinaXpeng CEO He Xiaopeng said current EREV systems do not provide a good experience as it typically takes about 30 minutes to charge from 30-80%. The Kunpeng system is said to use a 5C battery pack – the “C” indicates how many times a battery can be charged in one hour – which can be charged from 10 to 80% in just 12 minutes.

This ties in with the rollout of the Xpeng S5 capable of delivering up to 800 kW of charging power in China, with export markets set to receive the supercharger in 2025. Another problem with current EREV systems, as he explained, is range, which requires more frequent charging stops that the Kunpeng system aims to reduce.

In addition, the company also wants the motor, which acts as a generator for a battery, to operate quietly, with only an increase of one decibel during operation. He said existing systems have difficulty dealing with mountainous roads. Therefore, the Kunpeng system will use artificial intelligence (AI) to warm up the engine earlier in anticipation of such roads.

He went on to say that there is a need for an EREV system due to the unreliability of electricity grids in many countries, including areas where charging stations are few and far between.

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