The competition in the electric vehicle market continues at full speed. Manufacturers like BYD, Tesla, and Xpeng are fiercely racing against each other to get ahead and grab a larger market share. However, it’s not enough just to manufacture a good car to stand out in this race. They need to support it with modern technologies and attract interest.
For example, BYD is working on a model that can go on water. One of these additional factors is autonomous driving technology. Most of us think of Tesla models when this technology comes up. However, the head of autonomous-driving tech at Xpeng has claimed that their self-driving technology will always be better than Tesla’s. Here are the details…
Xpeng Confident in Autonomous Driving Dominance Over Tesla in China
The presence of Chinese manufacturers in the automobile industry is becoming stronger day by day. For instance, BYD has been holding the title of the world’s top-selling electric vehicle manufacturer for a while now, a title that once belonged to Tesla. Now, Elon Musk’s company is facing another tuff competition from Xpeng.
In 2022 the company introduced a autonomous-driving system, called XNGP, and it has been implemented in models such as the Xpeng P5 and Xpeng G9. This technology is already being allowed to use in some big cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing, and it’s receiving a lot of praise. It’s nearly as good as a human driver, about 90% as good, to be precise.
Moreover, Xpeng’s founder, He Xiaopeng, has made a big promise: Xpeng will be the first to launch fully autonomous-driving vehicles in China in 2023. They plan to have their cars driving on their own in more than 50 cities across the country. Recently, Xpeng’s Vice President of Autonomous-Driving Cars, Wu Xinzhou, talked about their technology.
Wu said that making a vehicle that can drive itself is not a marketing trick. It’s a serious project that needs a lot of hard work. You can’t do it quickly, and it takes a strong team and lots of testing. When asked about Tesla’s FSD coming to China and competing with Chinese vehicle manufacturers, Wu was confident. He said, “Even if Tesla comes now, we’ll be better. Our autonomous-driving cars work better in China than theirs would.”
“We’re not worried about Tesla. I don’t think they’ll be ready soon. I guess they need at least a year. And even when they’re ready, that’s fine, we’re ready to compete. We’ve always wanted to compete fairly with Tesla.” Wu went on to say, “I believe Tesla will never be better than Xpeng, because our work is more efficient and our engineers work harder.” Xpeng’s city NGP is already used in many cities, and people love it. It works well in difficult situations like heavy traffic, changing lanes on busy roads, and passing other cars.
Right now, Tesla’s FSD hasn’t come to China, and it hasn’t started big tests in local conditions. But when it does, it’ll be interesting to see who wins: Xpeng’s NGP, Huawei’s ADS, or Tesla’s FSD.
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