XPENG won the ADAC e-Competition at the Hockenheimring on 26 and 27 October 2024 at its first attempt, taking both its class and the outright classification. The car was a P7 Long Range with rear-wheel drive, start number 19.
The rules are to cover as many laps and kilometres as possible inside an 18-hour window, with charging time counting inside that window. The cars are split into classes by battery size, and the P7 ran in class C for cars with at most 97 kWh net.
The result was 216 laps and 972 km, with 15 hours, 41 minutes and 58 seconds of pure driving time. The runner-up finished 6.8 seconds behind on the same lap, with the pass coming shortly before the end.
The crew was the journalist Daniel Krenzer, Gordon Krug from XPENG Germany’s marketing team, who drove the final stint, and press officer Bernhard Voß.
Energy and charging strategy
The P7’s average consumption during the race was 15.8 kWh per 100 km, below the car’s WLTP figure of 16.8. The figure appears in that form in XPENG’s German account from August 2025.
972 km at 15.8 kWh per 100 km corresponds to a total energy use of about 154 kWh.
Markus Schrick, head of XPENG Germany, called it a strong team effort in which the better energy strategy decided the win.
Measured under competition rules
A German federation put a series-production P7 against the field under rules that penalise long charging stops, and the car won. The XPENG P7 page covers the car.
Images: XPENG
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XPENG Germany: victory in the ADAC e-Competition at the Hockenheimring · 27 October 2024