XPENG Robotaxi First Mass-Produced Unit Officially Rolls Off the Production Line
The vehicle uses a pure-vision system, four self-developed Turing AI chips and 3,000 TOPS of computing power, the company said.
- On Monday, May 18, 2026, XPENG announced the official rollout of its first mass-produced Robotaxi in Guangzhou, China, marking the first time a Chinese automaker has achieved mass production through full-stack, in-house development.
- Built on the same GX platform as XPENG's consumer SUV, the vehicle utilizes a pure vision solution without LiDAR, running on the VLA 2.0 AI model to compress system response latency to under 80 milliseconds.
- Powered by four in-house Turing AI chips, the Robotaxi delivers 3,000 TOPS of computing power, offering roughly double the compute headroom of Geely's Nvidia-based stack.
- XPENG plans to launch pilot operations in the second half of 2026 to validate user acceptance and the business model, with a dedicated business unit established in March 2026 overseeing commercialization.
- Targeting fully autonomous operations without on-site safety officers by early 2027, XPENG enters a crowded field alongside established competitors Waymo and Tesla.
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GUANGZHOU, China, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, today announced the official rollout of its first mass-produced Robotaxi in Guangzhou. This marks the first time in China that an automaker has achieved mass production of a Robotaxi through full-stack, in-house development. The newly unveiled Robotaxi, built on the XPENG GX platform, is China's first production-ready, pre-asse…
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