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XPENG has been quick to develop its autonomous driving capabilities. It feels like the company has barely been on the market at all, and now it’s making robotaxis! A couple of days ago, the company wrote: “today announced the official rollout of its first mass-produced Robotaxi in Guangzhou.”
While there are other non-consumer robotaxis roaming the roads of China, this is a different thing seeing a passenger car company produce robotaxis. “This marks the first time in China that an automaker has achieved mass production of a Robotaxi through full-stack, in-house development,” XPENG writes.
“The newly unveiled Robotaxi, built on the XPENG GX platform, is China’s first production-ready, pre-assembled Robotaxi model developed entirely with in-house technologies and engineered to L4 autonomous driving standards. Powered by four self-developed Turing AI chips, it delivers an industry-leading effective on-board computing power of 3,000 TOPS.”
XPENG isn’t playing around. It’s talking about Level 4 autonomous driving capability. Furthermore, it’s already been testing that on the road. “In January of this year, XPENG Robotaxi secured a road testing permit for intelligent connected vehicles in Guangzhou, formally entering the phase of routine L4 public road testing. In March, the company established its Robotaxi business unit to oversee product definition, R&D testing, and operations, thereby accelerating the commercialization roadmap.”
