Send driving assistance + more than 10,000 subsidies, buy Xiaopeng P7 E and E+ series to earn?

At present, the new domestic car-making forces are fiercely fighting, and major brands are inseparable in terms of products, prices, intelligence, and even user rights and interests. However, with the continuous deepening of technology and the continuous improvement of consumer demand, everyone agrees that the core competition point in the future will fall to high-end automatic driving and core computing power. Affected by this, Xiaopeng Automobile, which has always been aggressive in style, took the lead and announced that it had made significant adjustments to its models, prices, rights and interests. Among them, Xiaopeng P7 has added 4 new models, and some models are equipped with XPILOT 3.0 as standard, so in addition, what other changes in car purchases? Let's take a look at the Xiaopeng P7.

The E/E+ series comes standard with XPILOT 3.0, but the stakes have declined

Affected by the chip crisis, the epidemic and other aspects, the sales strategy of many new car-making forces has recently been adjusted, but in contrast, this time the policy adjustment of Xiaopeng Automobile may be the most bold, specifically: Xiaopeng Automobile announced that from 00:00 on May 9, 2022, the E/E+ version of Xiaopeng Automobile P7 will be ordered, and the corresponding version of the intelligent auxiliary driving system software and upgrade services will be adjusted to standard, without the need for optional purchase in the later stage. At the same time, from May 9, 2022, all Models of The Xiaopeng brand will no longer provide lifetime free charging service rights and free household charging piles.

In response to this policy adjustment, the most debated by everyone is nothing more than the question of whether it is worth it or not. So before that, let's first look at Xiaopeng's statement, Xiaopeng Automobile introduced: This policy adjustment is to popularize the driving assistance system and let more people enjoy the convenience brought by science and technology. Objectively speaking, there is indeed no problem, E/E+ series standard XPILOT 3.0 is an increase, which solves many people's choice doubts. However, behind this, Xiaopeng Automobile has indeed been affected by the dual impact of cost and automatic driving research and development/iteration.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand, taking Tesla's pure visual automatic driving as an example, the premise of the system is easy to use and powerful is to collect massive data for labeling, analysis and calculation, and tesla has millions of Tesla vehicles driving day and night around the world, constantly collecting data, which is currently very envious of the new domestic car-making forces. Therefore, in order to improve the level of autonomous driving technology, collecting data is an important prerequisite. Falling on Xiaopeng Motors, the best thing to do is naturally to decentralize XPILOT 3.0 to more models, so that more car owners can use XPILOT 3.0, so as to quickly collect data. Only in this way can Xiaopeng Automobile fulfill the commitments made at the financial report meeting in the fourth quarter of 2021: complete the opening of urban NGP technology in the second quarter of 2022, and expand the list of supported cities for urban NGP in batches after obtaining the approval of high-precision maps; and launch EPILOT 4.0 in 2023 to achieve high-speed and urban all-scenario intelligent assisted driving.

In addition, due to the optional configuration of Xiaopeng P7, coupled with the price of the optional XPILOT 3.0 is not cheap (standard lifetime service 36,000 yuan), so the price of a car accidentally exceeds 300,000 yuan, so that it is impossible to enjoy the national subsidy, which means to pay more than one "purchase tax" money, and after the standard XPILOT 3.0 is equipped with hardware support, users are also more likely to get the national supplement, which is more impulsive for friends who are hesitating to buy a car.

Of course, the Xiaopeng brand of the whole series of models no longer provide lifelong free charging service rights and free household charging piles, but also indeed the car purchase rights and interests have declined, which is beyond doubt, which will also increase the user's car cost to a certain extent, but fortunately, the current electricity price is not expensive, the charging pile installation price is also cheap, so for friends who really want to buy Xiaopeng P7, there will be unhappiness in the heart, but it will not be too entangled.

The E/E+ series comes with driver assistance as standard, and it's certainly more cost-effective to buy it

In addition to the change in car purchase rights, Xiaopeng P7 also launched four new models of 480G+/480E+/586G/625E this time, which can be seen as an optimization and supplement to the car series, so what are the characteristics of these four models? See the table below for details:

From the configuration point of view, 480G + and 586G only have a difference in the endurance version, the rest of the configuration is almost the same, of course, the driver assistance system is missing, but the basic technology configuration, practical configuration is complete, so the difference of 20,000 yuan can be said to be spent on getting more endurance.

480E+ is the top model with a 480km endurance, in addition to a lower endurance, including XPILOT 3.0 and other technology configurations are the top of the series, more importantly, after having XPILOT 3.0, it has a series of scientific and technological configurations such as NGP intelligent navigation assisted driving, SR environment simulation display, parking memory parking, IHB intelligent lighting, etc., and intelligence has reached a new height. The configuration of the 625E model is almost exactly the same as that of the 480E+, but the mileage is different, and the tens of thousands of yuan that are expensive are also spent on increasing the mileage, if there are intelligent and high endurance requirements at the same time, you can only choose this configuration.

So what are the changes to the four new models compared to the previous models? We still start with the two models of the 480. Compared with the 2022 480N, the new 480G+ is 10,000 yuan cheaper, and the configuration is mainly less XPILOT 2.5, including less sensors, driver assistance systems, etc. To be honest, it is more valuable to spend 10,000 more to buy 480N, but at present, due to the shortage of chips, this model is out of stock and cannot be booked. The more expensive 480N+ can be booked, the price is 13,000 yuan more expensive than 480G+, the configuration has upgraded the 19-inch aluminum alloy wheels, and there are XPILOT 2.5, which is actually acceptable, but considering that this car and the 480E equipped with XPILOT 3.0 are only 7000 yuan apart, it is better to directly go to 480E or 480E+, which is more cost-effective.

586G and 625E can be said to be a supplement to the "head and tail" configuration of the high endurance version, 586G is reduced with XPILOT 3.0, but the mileage is guaranteed, and the 625E is based on the XPILOT 3.0 to increase the endurance, overall giving users more choices. However, because the car market is still in a period of insufficient production capacity, the booking cycle will be very long, the delivery time will take 15-16 weeks, and the pickup cycle of a small number of models will even exceed 20 weeks, which is still very difficult for friends who have a car purchase plan.

Summary:

Affected by various factors, Xiaopeng P7 car purchase rights have been greatly adjusted, for the preparation of the car, especially to buy low-end friends are more uncomfortable, may not enjoy the lifelong free charging service rights and interests and free household charging pile rights. In contrast, the owners who are ready to buy the E/E+ series are much easier to accept, although there is no power transmission and charging pile rights, but at least the standard XPILOT 3.0. Of course, the most cost-effective is to count those who are ready to install XPILOT 3.0, and the price is more than 300,000 yuan of car owners, not only save the money of the optional, but also enjoy the national subsidy, the two superposition can save at least 30,000 yuan, I don't know if this will promote the sales of Xiaopeng P7 in the short term.