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Xiaopeng He

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Xpeng

Search every verified Xiaopeng He interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. He Xiaopeng, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Xpeng, recently led a global media road test of the XPENG G9L in Munich, highlighting the vehicle's dual-chamber air suspension, rear-wheel steering, and integration of Google Maps into global models. He stated that Xpeng is the first among China's new carmakers to integrate Google Maps, which he said improves autonomous driving performance. He also discussed plans for future VLA systems to support voice commands, allowing drivers to describe destinations without navigation. During the test, he emphasized the vehicle's stability, quietness, and agility across highways, tight lanes, and rough tracks. In an interview with Li Dan, He discussed Xpeng's broader ambitions in physical AI, including humanoid robots and flying cars, and expressed hopes for Xpeng to become a leading physical AI company. He also shared views on car industry profit models, suggesting revenue comes primarily from car sales, followed by services such as maintenance, finance, and insurance, as well as technology cooperation and licensing. During Xpeng's second quarter 2026 earnings call, He announced the first round of financing for Xpeng Robotics, raising over US $900 million at a post-money valuation of over US $6.2 billion, with participation from investors including IDG Capital, Tencent, and Alibaba. He stated that Xpeng aims to lead global scale application and commercialization of autonomous driving and build a valuable humanoid robot company. Additionally, in a test drive with a real owner, He discussed the VLA Lite system, which he said aims to maintain safety and comfort in city areas while improving smoothness and stability, with the owner describing the system as "beyond expectations."

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“I think the business profit in cars, the main thing is definitely the sales of cars. I think the second is the car service market, including maintenance, finance, insurance. I think there will be many other examples in the future of cars. Technology cooperation and authorization, that is, Chinese cars go to the world, there will be a lot of ability to exchange. Technology cooperation authorization is also one of them”

“I think the business logic of cars in the past is that the brand is good, and the scale is large. This is not the case in the Internet. Many companies in the Internet are strong from network efficiency and the innovation of commercial models. Because of the network efficiency, it can be heavy and then add the innovation of commercial models. If a car's hardware is stronger, it is more likely to have a large-scale eff”

“The German L03 pure electric is starting from 35,000 and 600 and then the German L03 range extender is I think is starting from 38,600 €100.”

“For MONA, we will once again break industry conventions by raising the ceiling of intelligent driving at the 150,000 RMB level to an extreme with 1500 TOPS effective computing power, bringing capabilities equivalent to a 20,000 USD level.”

“Since XPeng MONA was launched in the past few months including 2024 and 2025, we have consistently been number one in sales of pure electric A-class smart cars and the most popular pure electric smart car among young consumers.”

“I also wrote some initiatives. I hope that in China we can accelerate the L2 to L4 transformation for autonomous driving and also we can refine the regulations and management policies in this January. We already see that United Nations already announced that it will pass the global L2 autonomous driving regulation by the end of this year and by early next year they will open also the possibility for L3 era and also f”

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