In April 2025 XPENG had the research firm Opinion ask 211 Norwegian car owners. 77 percent said range matters most, 7 percent said charging speed, and 16 percent had no preference. The same question a year earlier returned 67 percent for range. The movement is away from charging speed.
The comparison needs a caveat. The 2024 survey is named only as a corresponding survey, with no sample size and no fieldwork date, so there is no way to tell whether the two measure the same thing.
There is also a gap in the arithmetic. 46 percent worry about running out of battery on long trips, 18 percent are neither worried nor unworried, and 22 percent are not worried. That is 86. The release does not account for the remaining 14 percent, and it calls the same 211 people both EV owners and car owners.
XPENG disagrees with its own customers
Claes Persson, managing director of XPENG Norway, thinks Norwegians weigh this wrongly. Fast-charger coverage is good enough almost everywhere, in his assessment, and what matters is the time lost at a charging stop. He puts the company line briefly: the strategy is to be best at charging speed.
The release put the New G6 and G9 in Norway during the autumn, at up to 451 kW and 525 kW respectively. Charging time is given as 10 to 80 percent in 12 minutes, with no cycle, no temperature and no indication which of the two cars it applies to. The heading immediately above that paragraph says 20 minutes.
The XPENG G9 page has the version sold today. What happens to range in real cold is in the X9 El Prix story, where the same test series measured 361 km in winter and 646 km in summer.
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