Xpeng has locked in five new models for Australia inside six months. Two more sat behind a curtain in Melbourne that nobody was allowed to film, and Xpeng isn’t yet saying whether they’re two of that same five, or something else altogether.
Xpeng parked a cutaway X9 on the front lawn at Essendon Fields last Tuesday, sliced open so onlookers could see the battery pack and processors underneath. Beside it sat a six-wheeled ground vehicle built to carry and launch a two-seat flying aircraft, and a life-sized humanoid robot capable of walking a shopping centre floor and greeting customers on its own. Inside, five production cars sat under a slide reading “Five Cars, Six Months, Each One a Benchmark.” Two more sat behind a curtain nobody was allowed to film.
This was Xpeng’s first Australian Brand Day, held at the Hyatt Place Essendon Fields on 21 July 2026. Xpeng vice chairman and president Brian Gu flew in for it, alongside international development head Alex Tang and Xpeng ANZ’s Damian Royce.
They came to lay out how Xpeng plans to rebuild its entire Australian operation from the ground up.
Five cars, six months
Royce used the event to confirm four new nameplates on top of an already-announced update to the G6, the SUV that has carried Xpeng in Australia since 2024. The full lineup: the updated G6, the seven-seat X9 people mover, the Mona-branded L03, the G9L large SUV and the L05 mid-size SUV. All five appeared on the presentation screen together, in right-hand drive, well before most of them (the G6 aside) have confirmed local pricing.
| G6 (updated) | X9 | L03 | G9L | L05 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segment / key rivals | Mid-size SUV: Tesla Model Y, BYD Sealion 7, Zeekr 7X | 7-seat people mover: Denza D9, VW ID. Buzz, Zeekr 009 | Mid-size SUV (Mona sub-brand): BYD Atto 3, Geely EX5 | Large SUV: Kia EV9, Volvo EX90 | Mid-size SUV, above L03 |
| Australian arrival | On sale now | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 | Late 2026, deliveries into early 2027 | January 2027 |
| Starting price (before on-road costs) | $51,800 | $89,900 | TBC | TBC | TBC |
The G6 and X9 are the two customers can already act on. The L03 and G9L follow in the final quarter of 2026, with the L05 pencilled in for January 2027.
What’s behind the curtain
Two cars were avaialble for private viewing at the event. Media were told not to film them and not to describe them, only that more detail was on its way. Xpeng ANZ has said publicly that both are larger versions of existing models in the range, without naming which two.
That description lines up neatly with two cars further down this list: the G9L, an enlarged replacement for the outgoing G9, and the L05, the bigger sibling sitting above the L03. Whether those two are exactly what sat behind that curtain is something Xpeng (or me myself!) isn’t confirming. Draw your own conclusion, and keep an eye out for when the embargo lifts.
Updated G6 undercuts its own predecessor
The rebuilt G6 is the car Australians can already buy, and the one Xpeng has reworked hardest. It now spans four grades and undercuts the outgoing model by $3000 at entry level.
| Standard Range | Long Range | Performance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price (before on-road costs) | $51,800 | TBC | from $63,800 |
| Power/Torque | Single motor (output TBC) | Single motor (output TBC) | 358kW/660Nm dual motor |
| EV Range (WLTP) | 480km | 525km | TBC |
| Combined Range (WLTP) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Battery | TBC | 80.8kWh LFP | TBC |
| Standard Inclusions | 12-min 10-80% fast charging, V2L, 15.6-inch touchscreen, 7-year unlimited-km warranty | Same as Standard Range | Same as Standard Range |
| 0-100km/h | TBC | TBC | 4.15 seconds |
Every grade gets the larger 15.6-inch touchscreen, up from 14.9 inches on the outgoing car, and the same 12-minute fast-charging hardware Xpeng is rolling out across its range. It remains the car most buyers will cross-shop against the Tesla Model Y, BYD Sealion 7 and Zeekr 7X, and for now it is still the only Xpeng anyone in Australia can actually drive home.
X9 delivers proper seven-seat space
The X9 is Xpeng’s Australian debut for a genuine three-row EV, and the car David spent the most time walking around in the video. Its party trick is a third row that folds completely flat, something few EV people movers manage given where the battery pack usually sits.
| Standard Range | Performance | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (before on-road costs) | $89,900 | $109,900 |
| Power/Torque | Single motor, front-wheel drive (output TBC) | Dual motor, all-wheel drive (output TBC) |
| EV Range (WLTP) | 535km | 580km |
| Combined Range (WLTP) | N/A | N/A |
| Battery | 94.8kWh LFP | 110kWh NMC |
| Standard Inclusions | 800V architecture, 5C charging (10-80% in around 12 minutes), V2L, 7-year unlimited-km warranty | Same as Standard Range |
Arrival is pencilled in for the third quarter of 2026. Rivals line up as the Denza D9, Volkswagen ID.Buzz and Zeekr 009, though nothing else in that group folds its third row quite so flat.
L03 takes aim at Atto 3 money
The L03 is a Mona sub-brand play, built for buyers chasing the tech without the badge price. Xpeng flew a right-hand-drive example into Melbourne days after its global reveal in Munich on 16 July, and local pricing is still TBC. The Chinese range runs from ¥123,800 to ¥156,800, roughly $26,000 to $33,000, in similar territory to the Chinese-market Geely Galaxy E5, sold here as the EX5 from $41,990 plus on-road costs.
Specs point to a 183kW/280Nm single motor, a 56kWh or 69kWh battery good for 550km or 650km CLTC, and an overseas EREV variant pairing a 1.5-litre engine with a 37.2kWh battery for over 1300km of combined range. The cabin gets electric front seats, leather trim on both rows, a 15.6-inch touchscreen and a surround-view camera system, with higher grades adding Xpeng’s own Turing processor chip. Measuring 4650mm long on a 2850mm wheelbase, the same wheelbase as a Toyota bZ4X, it arrives in the final quarter of 2026 aimed squarely at the BYD Atto 3 and Geely EX5.
G9L and L05 round out the five
The G9L takes over from the outgoing G9, which Australia is skipping entirely given how close it sits to the end of its model cycle. Confirmed as a seven-seater at 5120mm long, it lines up against the Kia EV9 and Volvo EX90, with both EV and EREV versions planned. A Chinese government filing points to a 270kW rear motor alone, or 270kW plus a 160kW front motor in all-wheel drive form, with EREV versions running a 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine.
The L05 sits above the L03 in both price and size, at 4870mm long on a 2940mm wheelbase, sharing the same EV and EREV powertrains. Full Chinese specification is yet to land, and Australia isn’t expected to see it before January 2027.
A flagship still waiting for a name
Xpeng previewed a sixth car outside the official five: the GX, a 5265mm flagship SUV whose silhouette borrows so heavily from Range Rover and borrows its name as well, not with Land Rover, but with Lexus, which already owns the GX badge in Australia. Riding a 3115mm wheelbase with six seats in China, it sits above the G9L in Xpeng’s range and runs the brand’s SEPA 3.0 Physical AI 800V architecture, offered as either an EV or an EREV.
Tang confirmed the car is coming regardless of the name it lands under. “The GX will come, that’s our flagship now,” he told media at the event. Chinese pricing starts around ¥279,800 for the EV and ¥289,800 for the EREV, roughly $59,000 to $61,000, though Australian pricing is tipped to clear $100,000. No local timing has been set, with industry reporting pointing to 2027 at the earliest. But expect to see it with a different nameplate given the Lexus GX already exists.
Iron, a flying car and the chip under both
Xpeng calls this its Physical AI push and it wants Australia in early. Iron stands about as tall as David does, and this is not the first time the robot has caused a stir. At Xpeng’s AI Day in Guangzhou last November, Iron walked so convincingly that onlookers assumed a person was inside a suit, so the company had its leg cut open on stage to prove otherwise. Xpeng is targeting late 2026 for Iron’s rollout into local dealerships and retail spaces, not homes, running on solid-state batteries and three of the company’s own Turing chips.
The six-wheeled ground vehicle beside it belongs to Aridge, Xpeng’s flying car subsidiary, rebranded from AeroHT. It carries a detachable two-seat aircraft good for around 20 minutes in the air, deployed and stowed from the rear of the ground vehicle. Aridge has taken more than 7000 orders globally, including at least one from a buyer already on the Gold Coast, though nobody at Xpeng has put a date on when either the aircraft or the robot clears Australian regulation.
The Turing chip sits under all of it: up to three per vehicle, up to 2250 TOPS combined, feeding Xpeng’s VLA 2.0 self-driving stack and its Robotaxi ambitions. Xpeng wants Australia among the first right-hand-drive markets for VLA 2.0 by the end of 2027, and is already inviting local fleet operators and dealers to talk about autonomous mobility. Whether Australian regulation moves anywhere near that pace is an entirely separate question.
Rebuilding after TrueEV
Xpeng launched in Australia in 2024 through TrueEV, an independent distributor that spent more than $60 million standing up the brand and delivered over 2000 G6s by the end of 2025, plus another 224 in the first half of 2026. Xpeng gave TrueEV notice on 1 January 2026 and took direct, factory-backed control on 1 April, less than two years into a five-year agreement. TrueEV disputes the move in the Federal Court, with a trial set down for 6 October.
Xpeng plans to grow the dealer network from 13 locations to 50 by 2027, backed by three flagship technology centres, a Melbourne parts warehouse run with FedEx, and a right-to-repair arrangement with AASRA so independent workshops can access service data too. None of that changes the fact that some early G6 buyers are still waiting on money promised eight months ago, with the answer tied up in a court date that is still months away.
The next six months decide it
Xpeng wants Australia to stop being an afterthought in its global rollout, and on this showing it has the model range, the chip hardware and the ambition to back that claim up. Whether the dealer network, the court case and the regulators can move at the same pace as the presentation slides is the part worth watching between now and the next Brand Day.
