It’s 2025, and the electric vehicle wars are hotter than a lithium-ion battery under stress test. Tesla’s still the name to beat, but Chinese automaker XPeng is rolling up with a freshly unveiled weapon—the second-generation XPeng P7. Revealed on May 14, 2025, this sleek sedan isn’t just a facelift; it’s a full-on reinvention, codenamed E29, designed to take on the Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal while flexing some serious AI muscle. After spending a week geeking out over the specs, design teasers, and posts from X, I’m here to break down why the new P7 might just be the EV to watch this year.
The new P7 is a fastback sedan with a roofline that flows like a Polestar 5 daydream, complete with rakish C-pillars and a full-width rear lightbar that’s practically begging for a neon-soaked Instagram post. At 4,888 mm long, it’s roughly the same length as its predecessor, the P7i, but the vibe is sharper, more aggressive. Think of it as the P7i after a year at the gym and a consultation with a sci-fi stylist.
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The front end sports a T-shaped light signature stretching across the car’s width, paired with flush-mounted door handles and frameless side mirrors that adjust like they’re ready for a close-up in a Tron sequel. A power-deployable rear spoiler adds a touch of drama, and the four-Y-spoke wheels nod to XPeng’s Swedish-Chinese rival, Polestar, while carving out their own identity.
Under the hood—or rather, under the floor—the P7 is built on XPeng’s E platform, shared with the G9 SUV, which means it’s packing some serious EV cred. While XPeng hasn’t spilled all the beans on powertrain specifics, the teasers and context from the P7i give us a solid foundation to work from.
The outgoing P7i offered two flavors: a rear-wheel-drive (RWD) single-motor setup with 203 kW (272 hp) and 440 Nm of torque, and a dual-motor all-wheel-drive (AWD) Performance variant churning out 348 kW (467 hp) and 757 Nm. The new P7 is expected to at least match these figures, with whispers of potential tweaks for even more grunt.
XPeng is doubling down on AI, calling the P7 “more than a car—it’s XPeng’s answer for the AI era.” The star of the show is the Turing ADAS chip, a homegrown beast delivering 700 TOPS (tera operations per second) of computing power. That’s a massive leap from the P7i’s dual Nvidia Orin-X chips, which topped out at 508 TOPS. What does this mean? The P7’s autonomous driving system is poised to be a game-changer, ditching LiDAR for a camera-based “vision-only” setup, much like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving approach.
