{"id":570678,"date":"2023-04-19T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570678"},"modified":"2023-04-19T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:15:55","slug":"shanghai-auto-show-chinas-xpeng-takes-cues-from-tesla-for-its-new-ev-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shanghai-auto-show-chinas-xpeng-takes-cues-from-tesla-for-its-new-ev-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Auto Show: China\u2019s Xpeng takes cues from Tesla for its new EV platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng Inc is the latest manufacturer hoping to save money and speed development and production by shifting to a digital vehicle architecture &#8211; an approach that bears a striking resemblance to Tesla Inc&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled this week ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, Xpeng&#8217;s Smart Electric Platform Architecture 2.0 has essentially the same foundation that Tesla has developed over the past two years with its Model Y: large single-piece front and rear underbody castings, joined in the center by a massive battery pack that helps to reinforce the vehicle body structure.<\/p>\n<p>The first Xpeng model to use the SEPA 2.0 platform, a compact SUV called G6, was unveiled at this week&#8217;s Shanghai show and is also startlingly close in dimensions and shape to the Model Y. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng Inc is the latest manufacturer hoping to save money and speed development and production by shifting to a digital vehicle architecture &#8211; an approach that bears a striking resemblance to Tesla Inc&#8217;s. Unveiled this week ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, Xpeng&#8217;s Smart Electric Platform Architecture 2.0 has essentially the same foundation that Tesla has developed over the past two years with its Model Y: large single-piece front and rear underbody castings, joined in the center by a massive battery pack that helps to reinforce the vehicle body structure. The first Xpeng model to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}