Tesla gets all the self-driving headlines, but Chinese XPENG rolled out its version, called VLA 2.0, in March 2026. Can its success in China be repeated globally?

I test-drove Xpeng's VLA 2.0 in Beijing traffic for 40 minutes without intervening. Tesla's FSD lead in consumer cars is ...

Chinese automaker Xpeng has been going head to head with Tesla on multiple fronts. Like Tesla, Xpeng has been developing electric vehicles for about a decade and has expanded into areas such as ...

XPeng advances electric vehicle expansion and AI innovation as delivery momentum and global partnerships reshape its ...

Chinese EV automaker XPeng confirmed that it has secured an L3 autonomous testing permit in Guangzhou, one of the first such permits in China. They also released a video of their autonomous software ...

Fri, March 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM UTC XPeng (NYSE:XPEV) stock is down 5% in early trading on Friday, sliding toward $18 after closing at $19.15 the day prior. The move comes on the same morning the ...

GUANGZHOU, China, June 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XPENG Motors (“XPENG” or the “Company,” NYSE: XPEV and HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, was invited to present its advancements ...

In less than a year, Xpeng updated its Tesla-rivaling G6 model with over 20,000 incremental developments and I’ve driven it ...

XPeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV), in collaboration with Peking University, announced on Monday that its autonomous driving research paper has been accepted by AAAI 2026. AAAI 2026 is one of the world's most ...

Xpeng (NYSE:XPEV) has developed chips for autonomous driving with Volkswagen (OTC:VWAGY) and other auto rivals as potential customers. The Chinese EV maker said that its chips could beat that of ...

This first real-world test with Western journalists reveals where VLA 2.0 shines, and where FSD still pulls ahead.

XPENG-PKU Research Breakthrough: XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, has developed FastDriveVLA—a novel visual token pruning framework that enables autonomous driving AI to "drive like a ...