China’s XPeng reveals astounding roll-out of “more than a dozen” all-new EVs and PHEVs, but how many are coming to Australia?

A senior global XPeng executive has revealed during an Australian visit a massive model expansion that dwarfs any previous publicly announced plans.

In November XPeng founder He Xiaopeng announced the emerging Chinese electric start-up would launch a record four new models in 2025.

But at last week’s official launch of XPeng’s new flagship store in Sydney, the brand’s global finance and accounting vice president James Wu confirmed the model roll-out plan was significantly more ambitious.

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“Starting from Q3 this year until middle 2026, we are going to have more than a dozen all-new models coming out,” Wu revealed.

“This is outside of facelifts and overseas models.

“I wouldn’t get too much into specific models but obviously there will be SUVs and sedans and MPVs.

“We will also introduce extended range (hybrids) next year as well.”

Just how many of these models will come to Australia is yet to be confirmed, but Wu said Australia was one of “five to six” strategic markets that are the most important among the 30 or more countries XPeng has entered so far.

Via importer TrueEV, XPeng has just launched in Australia with the Tesla Model Y-rivalling G6 battery electric SUV. But by the end of 2025 it plans to have added at least another four models – the X9 people-mover, the G9 SUV, the Mona M03 compact car and the P7+ family car.

But the AWD Performance version of the G6 is expected to be the very first addition in 2025.

In 2027 XPeng and TrueEV want to sell 25,000 cars annually in Australia. It’s symbolic of XPeng’s global sales ambitions.

“We are aiming at more than one million units [annual sales] at some point,” Wu said. “To achieve that you have to have the right portfolio.”

Building one million cars a year would be a huge step up for 10-year old XPeng, which is expected to top 200,000 annual sales for the first time in 2024. It is also yet to make money and is forecasting it will break even in late 2025.

“In the past we may launch one or two vehicles per year,” said Wu. “But that is because we have not prepared ourselves good enough in terms of cost saving, investment saving, efficiencies and commonisation across platforms.

“Now we are ready.”

It is expected the 2025 XPeng new model roll-out in China will include a super-sports EV, a robotaxi and its first ever plug-in hybrid, an SUV.

XPeng claims its Kunpeng range extender system will have an enormous 430km electric range and 1400km combined range.

Wu agreed Kunpeng opened up the opportunity for XPeng to develop a dual cab ute rival or a heavy duty 4×4.

Both modes of transport are lucrative and popular but also don’t apply well to pure EVs because battery power combined with vehicle weight limit range between recharges.

The BYD Shark 6 is the first PHEV dual cab ute to go on-sale in Australia and has generated significant orders and massive interest. GWM and Ford will release PHEV utes in Australia in 2025.

“We are going to introduce extended range propulsion system next year,” Wu confirmed

“Previously we thought this is something that would not get that much traction as a transitional approach.

“But in China we realise this is the fastest growing segment, even faster than true EV.”

Wu made it clear Kunpeng was a real chance to make it to Australia.

“That’s very possible. Not official decision, but it comes in natural because in some of the countries the policies are tailored toward true EVs, but in Australia there’s none such preferential difference.

“It’s a large country and you travel long distances so it makes perfect sense.”

Wu made it clear he was aware of the popularity of utes and 4x4s in markets such as Australia and how suitable Kunpeng could potentially be for these vehicles.

“We are definitely open for different types of architectures,” he declared. “We are capable, we have the architecture to create these types of vehicles.

“It really depends on what’s the market and how long’s the return and what’s the priority.

“We are still in the process of completing our portfolio from a passenger-car perspective.”

Details of Kunpeng – in Chinese mythology a Kunpeng is a hybrid of a fish and bird – are still limited.

But XPeng has confirmed it uses an 800V platform that supports a 5C fast-charging battery capable of charging from 10 to 80 per cent in 12 minutes.

XPeng also claims the system’s internal combustion engine (ICE) will add only one decibel of noise in the cabin when running.

While the size of the battery has not been revealed, it is clearly larger in Kunpeng than is normal for a PHEV. For instance, the Shark 6 has a 29.6kWh battery pack, a claimed 100km EV-only range and a claimed 800km combined range.