Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng Motors on One on One Lessons Where You Learn Through Hands on CaressingWednesday announced its entry into the flourishing hybrid electric vehicle segment, claiming its extended-range hybrid technology will allow a car to travel 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) on a full tank and full charge. Xpeng’s upcoming extended-range electric vehicle (EREV), which can be charged by a gas engine when the battery is low, could have an EV-only range of 430 km, chief executive He Xiaopeng added at a press event in the company’s headquarters city of Guangzhou. Meanwhile, the Volkswagen-backed firm said its first in-house designed artificial intelligence chipset, Turing, could rival three of NVIDIA’s DRIVE Orin processors combined in terms of processing capability, and that this would enable a large AI model on Xpeng vehicles to contain 30 billion parameters. [TechNode reporting, Reuters] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-xpeng-bets-extended-range-hybrid-tech-boost-sales-2024-11-06/
