XPeng is one of China’s most technology focused electric car makers, founded in 2014 in Guangzhou by entrepreneur He Xiaopeng, who had previously built and sold a mobile browser company to Chinese internet giant UCWeb. The company has positioned itself heavily around software, autonomous driving technology, and even, notably, flying cars, through a subsidiary called XPeng AeroHT.
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The brand arrived in the UK relatively recently, first showing its G6 electric SUV at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2024 before officially going on sale in March 2025, in partnership with International Motors (which handled UK sales until September 2026), the distribution group also behind GWM Ora, Isuzu and Subaru in Britain. XPeng chose the UK deliberately as a strategic market, noting that Britain became Europe’s largest EV market in 2024 and represents one of the most significant right hand drive markets in the world.
Globally, XPeng has grown quickly. By the time it launched in the UK, the company had delivered more than 620,000 electric vehicles worldwide, and a panel of UK car dealers surveyed on which new entrants were most likely to succeed in Britain ranked XPeng’s chances the highest of any newcomer. The G6 was updated significantly for 2026, with XPeng describing more than 20,000 incremental changes aimed at improving how the car drives, alongside new battery technology capable of charging from 10 to 80 percent in as little as 12 minutes.
Until now, the XPeng G6 has been XPeng’s only model on sale in the UK, but that is changing. The seven seat X9 MPV has confirmed UK pricing from £74,990, with customer deliveries due to begin in the third quarter of 2026, and the flagship G9 SUV is expected toward the end of the year. A smaller crossover, the L03 (sold in China under XPeng’s Mona brand), is also being prepared for the UK, though no launch date or price has been announced. In September 2026, XPeng also took its UK sales operation in-house from International Motors, which continues to provide operational services. XPeng is also developing an AI defined vehicle platform, first previewed through the P7+, that it says will underpin future models across the range.
Vehicles sold in the UK are built in China and shipped as complete right hand drive units. As XPeng’s UK dealer network expands into cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh, the brand’s presence here looks set to grow well beyond the G6 alone.
