Xpeng Motors, dubbed “China’s Tesla,” will start mass manufacturing of modular flying automobiles on a scale of 5,000 items subsequent yr. The corporate additionally unveiled its next-generation flying automobile “A868,” revealing its ambition to preempt the flying automobile market.
Xpeng founder and Chairman He Xiaopeng introduced on the 2025 Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Day occasion held at Xpeng headquarters in Guangzhou, China on Nov. 5 that the corporate will start mass manufacturing of the removable flying automobile “Land Plane Service” beginning subsequent yr, with an preliminary manufacturing scale of 5,000 items. The Land Plane Service contains a construction the place a 2-seater flight module (electrical vertical takeoff and touchdown plane) is mounted on a 4-seater, 6-wheel drive automobile, able to separation and mixture inside 5 minutes. It will possibly fly for as much as half-hour. Xpeng additionally showcased its next-generation flying automobile A868. The 6-seater A868 reaches a most pace of 360 km/h and has a flight vary of 500 km. Take a look at flights started final month.
Xpeng additionally introduced it should launch three kinds of robotaxis subsequent yr, geared up with 4 self-developed “Turing” AI chips. They are going to be developed as high-performance fashions with computational capabilities of three,000 TOPS (3 trillion operations per second), which is among the many world’s highest ranges. The gross sales worth was introduced to be set at lower than 200,000 yuan (roughly 40.5 million received). Xpeng’s second-generation humanoid robotic “Iron” was additionally formally unveiled. It’s geared up with Turing AI chips and makes use of solid-state batteries for the primary time within the business. With synthetic muscular tissues and pores and skin, 82 joints, and 22 levels of freedom in arms, it’s evaluated as having a kind near people. Chairman He emphasised, “Xpeng will turn out to be the world’s main embodied intelligence firm that leads bodily AI know-how.” Embodied intelligence refers to AI geared up with bodily entities that work together with actual environments.
