Chinese Tesla rival Xpeng gets approval to roll out driver-assist tech in Beijing

BEIJING — Chinese electrical car marque Xpeng announced Thursday it received support to commencement rolling retired assisted driving tech to users successful the nation's superior metropolis of Beijing.

The archetypal sum lone includes the "ring-road" highways that tally successful concentric circles astir the metropolis halfway and "main high-speed roads," according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese-language release.

It was not instantly wide erstwhile the driver-assist tech could beryllium utilized connected each Beijing metropolis streets.

Thursday's announcement follows Xpeng's merchandise of municipality script driver-assist tech for users successful Shanghai successful March, aft an earlier rollout successful Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Xpeng has said it plans to rotation retired the tech, called XNGP, to different Chinese cities this year. The system, disposable to drivers of definite models for a fee, claims to marque driving easier with bundle that assists with creaseless braking astatine postulation lights, turning astatine intersections and different tasks connected metropolis streets.

Xpeng is the lone automaker successful China to connection a akin level of driver-assist exertion arsenic Tesla. While Tesla offers assisted driving exertion for usage connected highways, its "Full Self Driving" relation for driver-assist connected metropolis streets isn't yet disposable successful China.

Electric car brands successful China person progressively made plans for driver-assist exertion a selling point.

Xpeng claimed during its latest net telephone its driver-assist tech drove important lawsuit involvement successful cities wherever it tin operate. The brand's monthly deliveries person mostly lagged down competitors'.