Exceptional XPeng with Dr Brian Gu
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dr Brian Hongdi Gu is Xpeng Vice Chairman and President. Xpeng was founded in 2014, two years after the Launch of the Tesla Model S and it has since gone from strength to strength ever since. Dr Gu received a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Washington in 1997, a master's degree in business administration from Yale University in 1999, and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon in 1993.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged plus podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm coming to you this time from China. Well, obviously I'm not in China, but my guest is Dr Brian |
| 0:36.8 | Gooh is the vice chairman and president of X-Peng Motors, which we have covered on on the fully |
| 0:43.8 | charged show. Elliot has driven some of their models. In fact, owns one. He owns a X-Peng G3. |
| 0:52.0 | A very new company, 2015, they started, so seven years ago, and they are producing a huge, huge amount |
| 1:03.2 | of cars that have incredible range. As you will discover, the latest one, an eye-watering |
| 1:10.7 | recharge speed, just no one else is anywhere near them. I mean, they are doing incredible, |
| 1:16.5 | incredible work. They're a really exciting company to find out about. And for the last year and |
| 1:25.6 | a half or so, they've been for sale in Norway, and they've been very popular in Norway, and they are |
| 1:32.6 | now expanding into Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, where you'll be able to buy an X-Peng |
| 1:39.8 | car, which is pretty impressive, to achieve that in such a short time. Once again, they're a startup |
| 1:47.3 | that hasn't got the legacy of building diesel and petrol engines. They just make electric cars. |
| 1:53.5 | That's all they've ever done. They are now really ramping up their self-driving abilities, |
| 2:00.6 | their autonomous drive abilities. That's one of their key things. They make all the software |
| 2:06.8 | and all the hardware, and it's integrated together, a little bit like another company we know. |
| 2:12.3 | And they also run a supercharging network in China at the moment, which obviously is very fast, |
| 2:20.1 | very reliable, that their cars will plug into very easily, they're well-maintained charging systems. |
| 2:26.8 | We have a brief discussion about the charging network in China, which hard not to be |
| 2:33.6 | so fairly impressed with what they've achieved in the last few years. And the level of sales in China |
| 2:42.5 | is extraordinary. The amount of electric vehicles they have on their roads is their way ahead of |
| 2:48.6 | anyone else in the world. So that's what we're talking about today. Really interesting podcast, |
| 2:55.8 | really interesting to talk to Brian. He's a very knowledgeable man, and they're a very impressive |
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