Xpeng brought Mashable reporter Amanda Yeo to China to experience the new VLA 2.0 autonomous driving model inside its P7 electric vehicle.
0:00 The Car the US Government Doesn’t Want You to Buy
0:18 Meet XPENG: China’s High-Tech Tesla Rival
0:39 How VLA 2.0 Autonomous Driving Works
1:43 Stress Testing Self-Driving in Hectic Traffic
2:21 The Challenge of “Corner Cases” in Autonomy
2:43 Hands-Free Self-Parking Demo
3:00 Heads-Up Display and Interior Tech
3:24 XPENG’s Personal Flying Machines
4:22 Why Chinese EVs are Banned in the US
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@Parametricism0
June 14, 2026 at 10:30 am
Buddy, check out what FSD is capable now😂.
@CiroMorra
June 14, 2026 at 10:57 am
Heads-Up display??? 🤔
@feizheng-r7p
June 14, 2026 at 11:04 am
As a Chinese. I will not buy a Chinese car if possible
@theolich4384
June 14, 2026 at 12:03 pm
加价去买你的丰田呗
@Arutemu
June 14, 2026 at 1:26 pm
😂
@wel2myworld
June 14, 2026 at 11:08 am
That’s why “Tesla” are scared 😂
@subree_keller
June 14, 2026 at 12:41 pm
With all the money Elon Musk now has he can easily just buy that company. We know that he really wants to make self – driving a thing in America allow people to buy cars as small business ’employees’ and he doesn’t care where all the mapping data goes…
@testaccount1563
June 14, 2026 at 11:12 am
A reminder, Xpeng hired a ex-Tesla employee and stole Tesla’s self driving code. Chinese EVs are indeed best in the world, however chinese stealing stuff like software and code indicates they still rely on others to do the hard stuff
@dman7310
June 14, 2026 at 1:36 pm
This is untrue. Tesla sued their ex-employee personally as an individual, Xpeng was never implicated. Despite that, Xpeng immediately offered to have their source code compared by third-party but Tesla initially refused, they wanted to drag out the case and tarnish Xpeng reputation. Eventually the source code was shown to have no Tesla code at all. The engineer in question was let go from Xpeng while the trial was going on and eventually settled with Tesla for uploading data to his personal cloud, while maintaining it was never transferred to Xpeng.
@thealmightyz73
June 14, 2026 at 11:18 am
Not a fan of EV’s, but I got to admit that this car looks quite good. Nice job xpeng.
@undeadkitty334
June 14, 2026 at 11:22 am
its only a matter of time those tariffs will go away.
@Goodboy38581
June 14, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Yep when he is out of office
@undeadkitty334
June 14, 2026 at 1:24 pm
@Goodboy38581 who says he wont be out of office sooner 🙂
@youtubeisdeadd
June 14, 2026 at 11:53 am
Wall st. will make sure you NEVER get this. I’ll trade my 2025 Ioniq5 for any Chinese car right now!! The only way out of this mess, is healthy competition.
C’mon USA, we can get all sorts of new factories for ICE to raid.
@Jeo-What
June 14, 2026 at 11:56 am
It’s an interesting and cool idea for a vehicle to take over at times when needed. That being said, our cerebellum requires challenges daily by solving problems by stay healthy and not shrinking down as we age. By allowing a vehicle to take over the driving, we are also decreasing our brain exercising (yes I know some drivers seeing to have none already!! 🤣) which decreases our own longevity at the same time. Why buy an expansive self-drive car and pay for insurance and maintance while one can call for taxi or just use public transportation at this point?
@linux1123
June 14, 2026 at 11:57 am
I just bought a XPeng P7+ in Europe to replace my model 3, great car 😉
@JAD73567
June 14, 2026 at 12:22 pm
Yes, yes and yes!
@flyentity
June 14, 2026 at 12:39 pm
Sorry CNET, I’d be very interested to know more about this car but this report was childish and lacking any depth at all. To be honest the most lacking CNET video I’ve ever seen. Hopefully you can revisit this with a better informed reporter in the future.
@Rob-p2c
June 14, 2026 at 2:17 pm
What did you want to see in this report?
@elfuturomio
June 14, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Ev period then they can say they did something 🤣👍
@showersB4bed
June 14, 2026 at 1:30 pm
America – The land of the Dinosaurs.
@Rob-p2c
June 14, 2026 at 2:19 pm
I would give Chinese cars at least a look because the Chinese people in general have a great work ethic and are very smart
@PigRipperLAW
June 14, 2026 at 2:21 pm
No spy cars: neither foreign nor domestic
@Skaterpunkkid
June 14, 2026 at 2:27 pm
Way better than what they have out here
@amanimaniac
June 14, 2026 at 2:44 pm
I want nothing to do with autonomous driving. If that can be turned off, I like the look of the car.
@fatcole1152
June 14, 2026 at 2:50 pm
The US government doesn’t want the public buying most cars.
Only 10-11 million cars are produced annually for the US market. Nearly 93 million cars are produced worldwide each year
@Check_This-e4b
June 14, 2026 at 3:42 pm
I saw one in my country days ago. I has to turn again and watch it when i passed by it.
@siddharthminz6367
June 14, 2026 at 5:08 pm
Makes my boring long distance trans canada highway journey becomes easy
@Dubov1933
June 14, 2026 at 5:36 pm
What’s the point of “autonomous” driving if you have to grip the steering wheel with both hands at all times, just drive atp.
@LaJuanHughes
June 16, 2026 at 10:33 am
That need more data. That is why Tesla is in the lead they have the datab
@clever4ever603
June 14, 2026 at 7:17 pm
I need a Xiami SU 7 ultra plz
@alukic1
June 14, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Baby sitting the autonomous vehicle
@GamesplayChris42
June 14, 2026 at 8:13 pm
Requiring blue light outside the car to signal that the car is self-driving is such a good idea!
@kasio22B
June 15, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Not gonna work in the U.S. It’s prohibited display blue color light outside of the vehicle on public roads since it’s mostly used on authorized emergency vehicles only.
@x0Kamix0x
June 15, 2026 at 10:30 pm
@kasio22B Think bigger picture… There are other colors that can be used to communicate that the car is in autonomous mode…
@LaJuanHughes
June 16, 2026 at 10:28 am
We don’t need light since at least Tesla drives better than most people on the road . Putting special lites on the car put a target on the car for stupid drivers that will try to cut you off
@chjin1796
June 16, 2026 at 10:17 pm
@kasio22B The United States even allows non-amber turn signals.
@Aedan2071
June 17, 2026 at 7:10 am
@kasio22B You are allowed other colours (except blue/red). Colours like green, yellow and purple are fine.
@williambell6611
June 14, 2026 at 9:33 pm
Yeah would LOVE a Chinese EV. Can’t afford any other American car.
@SilverSilence002
June 14, 2026 at 10:16 pm
00:25 in Sci-Fi looking truck, Xpeng’s land aircraft carrier beats Tesla’s Cybertruck in vibe factor alone.
@LaJuanHughes
June 16, 2026 at 10:29 am
No the same thing
@Teslathailand
June 15, 2026 at 2:18 am
Anyway I prefer not to support a communist regime.
@mrelaborate
June 15, 2026 at 2:51 am
They haven’t hacked tesla servers yet
@pmozart9280
June 15, 2026 at 3:27 am
So the americans are like “if you cant beat em tax em
@syarizansulaiman6554
June 15, 2026 at 4:34 am
xpeng is on par with Tesla car 🚗, in Malaysia is very tough fight both
@DrXJ
June 15, 2026 at 4:42 am
Self parking and good batteries is enough for me.
@zahidnawaz2345
June 15, 2026 at 5:26 am
This is the first time ever i really wanted to by an EV , beautiful piece❤
@Ryan_Powers25
June 15, 2026 at 6:38 am
I own Xpeng stock. Hope they dominate the EV market
@RULINGCHAOS666
June 15, 2026 at 7:32 am
Wait a minute.. they’re trying to tell you that getting close to a pole or getting close to a parked car is an unusual experience and the driver needs to take control? Those things don’t happen in a Tesla.
@DeVinaire357
June 15, 2026 at 9:55 am
If we got these dinosaurs out of the way here in America… then maybe we can focus on futuristic technology as opposed to depending on things of the past to stay ahead in this technology race.
@albertteng1191
June 15, 2026 at 11:14 am
From our experience here in the philippines where 30 chinese EV brands are available for sale, the biggest turn off in buying one is after sales service. Parts are not available and it usually takes 3 to 6 months for parts to arrive even for simple bumper replacement. While waiting for parts to arrive, the vehicle just sits in the dealer’s parking lot gathering dust exposed to the elements. If only they can improve that, chinese EVs are great value for money. Cheap hybrids from geely, chery, byd, changan cost only $15,000 to $22,000. For $22,000 you get a full size SUV equipped with all the bells and whistles, all options loaded. Its cheaper than a low trim toyota corolla. Even our taxis are now EVs and soon even all buses will be EVs
@samanthajones4877
June 15, 2026 at 12:05 pm
I’m guessing the problem you are having is due to the high demand due to the gas shortage. It’ll alleviate over time.
@MrJudgi
June 15, 2026 at 12:27 pm
3:20 but HUDs are not new to any point?
@derekf1974
June 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Their huds are integrated with the navigation system, like augmented reality. Arrows are imposed on lanes and exits. It is very useful. No need to look at the map.
@TheGuillotineKing
June 15, 2026 at 2:36 pm
It’s a Chinese spy on wheels
@macavalli2619
June 15, 2026 at 3:22 pm
The CCP approves this message
@JurassicJake92
June 15, 2026 at 4:19 pm
Interesting how all the software visualizations look exactly like Tesla’s.
@MY_former_ILM_DD_RandH
June 15, 2026 at 6:13 pm
The question shouldn’t be what do we think about the car but what do we allow a man who cut our liberties and impose a ban on these and other things.
@XxXenosxX
June 16, 2026 at 12:40 am
I’m tired of protectionism, what happened to free markets?
@TroupeGoal
June 16, 2026 at 7:21 am
Why are the vehicles banned?
@fidodid1
June 16, 2026 at 2:09 pm
Ngl, unattended self-parking in a structure is next level. But will no one mention how stunning the P7 is? I learned it was designed by former BMW designer Rafik Ferrag. See what happens when engineers and designers are given free reign. Kudos!
@chjin1796
June 16, 2026 at 10:19 pm
This feature is available in the vast majority of Chinese cars. Even more impressive is that you can get out of the car on the ground level, and the car can drive itself to a designated parking spot in the underground garage.
@CNET
June 16, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Correction @ 1:34 Amanda Yeo’s title should read “Mashable Assistant Editor.” Thanks for watching!
@chuggie2
June 17, 2026 at 4:16 pm
take my money
@rickfeng4466
June 17, 2026 at 8:19 pm
CNET u should of mentioned its price too
Between U$D 31,000~44,000 depending on the spec
@HBXGDA1
June 18, 2026 at 1:19 am
Look like Tesla has many step ahead of tech here.
@lexlopez15
June 18, 2026 at 5:57 am
i could see that van and mini copter being used for emergency services. they could be used for the fire department, ambulance services, even park rangers looking for lost hikers.
@MassimoHaley
June 18, 2026 at 6:50 am
Looking forward to HansTechTalk reviewing this car. His last XPeng video was really impressive, especially the interview with the XPeng Vice President.
@allenaxp6259
June 18, 2026 at 3:16 pm
Tesla has better FSD, I use it on all my long trips. It handles tie stops much better, don’t need to take over.