GM’s Buick GL8 led the segment with 126,838 units ... only a handful of companies such as BYD and Li Auto are profitable. The X9, built on Xpeng’s SEPA 2.0 architecture launched in April ...

The X9, the premier model of Xpeng, recently debuted at the Guangzhou Auto Show. This exceptional seven-seater electric minivan seems futuristically otherworldly, both externally and internally.

So the next one on the table after the X9 is probably the G9. The G9 is already on sale in Europe as left hand drive. It’s a big saloon. “[Xpeng] is planning a fairly major update to that car ...