Welcome back to EV News China. Today, X-Pung GX goes on sale. Stalantus explores a Dong Feng tie-up and BYD updates the U1 Plus for China.

Plus stay tuned later in the show. I'll tell you why plug-in hybrid batteries are about to get bigger again.

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fast-moving developments in East shape the global landscape. Let's kick off with what even Chinese

commentators and forum dwellers have dubbed X-Pung's version of a Range Rover.

It does look strikingly similar on the outside.

Under the skin, though, you get some incredible specs for a third of the ticket price,

and they've just opened pre-orders and given us all the details with a launch.

Went live yesterday on 15th of April.

It's their flagship large SUV in both pure electric and

EREV range extended form. Both cost 43.5,000 pounds or 58,000 US dollars equivalent. That's 400,000

RMB. It puts the GX in the fullsize SUV class. The GX comes in pure electric form and what they

call super range extended. So, 750 kilometres of range for the Bev, E-Rev version 430 kilometers

pure electric and 1585 kilometers combined with the engine. Well, XPung leans hard on

safety, as is pretty much common, I would say over the last 12 months, maybe longer in China,

a big focus on safety. Not just safety around batteries, but generally because of some

guidelines and some regulations

coming from Beijing, a lot of the carmakers lean on safety first, and that's the case with this.

GX uses a front and rear integrated die-car structure, rated at 16,000 tonnes, they say.

X-Pung says it engineered the structure to absorb impacts from frontal, side, rear, roof, and even underbody impact.

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