Welcome back to the podcast. Today, Neo's new flagship,

Xiaomi upgrade the SU7 and BYD plans long-range hybrids. Plus stay tuned.

Later in the show, I'll tell you why the new XPung P7 Plus stands a good chance of being a global success story.

Welcome to Evie News, China, the podcast dedicated to the world's largest EV market. Each day, I bring

you the latest headlines, insights and analysis from the heart of China's booming EV industry

and decode how fast-moving developments in the East are shaping the global EV landscape.

Neo is preparing a giant new flagship. If you park a Rolls-Royce Cullinan in a standard parking bay, the British barge will

test the painted white lines. It's not built to just carry passengers, but to occupy territory.

Yet, next to Neo's latest creation, even the Rolls risks feeling a little bit modest.

Neo is preparing a new range-topping ES9 for China's

top-end segment. The models appeared in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

filings. It's a formality that usually signals that a launch is close. Neo builds it as the

flagship of its SUV lineup and the ES9, unsurprisingly, sits above

the ES8. ES9 sticks to Neo's current design language. The front carries a closed grill,

slender, split, headlamps and a tall, upright nose that does nothing to disguise its bulk.

At the rear, a full-width lightbass, it's above the stacked

tail lights to underline the car's presence. On the roof, Neo keeps its three-pronged layout,

a LIDAR sensor in the middle with high-def cameras on either side. Together, they form a sensor

suite intended to mark the ES9 out as a high-end platform for ADAS assisted driving.

Hardware, in the other words, that looks to me ready for more software in the future.

The vehicle is vast, even by full-size standards.

It is 5.365 meters long, 2.03 meters wide, and 1.9 meters high, wheelbase of 3.25 meters.

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