SPY PICS: 2025 XPeng X9 spotted in Sydney
Premium electric people mover is firming for Australia and should be confirmed within weeksAn eagle-eyed carsales reader has spotted a left-hook 2025 XPeng X9 testing in Bellevue Hill (NSW) ahead of its local introduction sometime next year, the electric people mover completely devoid of any camouflage and circulating in plain sight.
XPeng is one of more than a dozen new Chinese brands entering the Australian market within the next 18 months or so and will kick-off its local operation with the imminent release of the Tesla Model Y-fighting G6 medium SUV.
The X9 is tipped to be the brand’s third model introduced Down Under behind the G6 and the bigger G9 as a rival for the LDV Mifa 9 and cut-price alternative to the Lexus LM, Mercedes-Benz EQV and Zeekr 009.
The surprise sighting doesn’t reveal too much about the X9 that we didn’t already know, however its presence on local roads proves its Australian business case is progressing well having only been confirmed last month.
Local XPeng distributor TrueEV has been inundated with expressions of interest in the wedge-shaped van, so much so an official announcement confirming it for Australia could be made in the next couple of weeks, however a timeline for its release is a little less clear… for now.
“XPeng are warming, they keep asking me … because they want to do it,” TrueEV CEO Jason Clarke told carsales in early August.
“I would say in six to eight weeks we will be saying formally if this is going to be part of the range.”
The X9 rides on XPeng’s bespoke SEPA2.0 architecture and can be had overseas with the choice of a single- or dual-motor powertrain, the former outputting 235kW/450Nm and drawing current from an 84.5kWh battery pack for a claimed CLTC range of 610km.
A bigger 101.5kWh power pack ups the range to 702km and is the default option for the 370kW/640Nm dual-motor system which is capable of 0-100km/h in 5.7 seconds but predictably yields on range: 640km CLTC.
Studying the local evaluation vehicle reveals it to be a dual-motor ‘Performance’ version, which suggests XPeng is shooting for the stars and hoping to rattle the cages of LDV, Mercedes, Zeekr and Lexus.
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