At the 2026 Paris Motor Show, XPeng ran its first large-scale European test-drive event for its Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) system, giving visitors supervised rides on city streets. The reporter’s roughly 30-minute trip took place in an L03 coupe SUV, known in China as the Mona L03, on a planned route with a safety driver ready to take over. XPeng and Tesla were the only two of the 60 automakers at the show offering test drives in the city’s traffic.
The system uses XPeng’s VLA 2.0 AI model and combines camera input with millimeter-wave radar and ultrasonic sensors. On the Paris route, it handled traffic signs, roundabouts and narrow streets, and performed well around pedestrians and cyclists. It stopped for a family approaching a zebra crossing, navigated around a vehicle blocking the lane and dealt confidently with trucks. The reviewer also noted that the system responded well to two-wheelers.
Lane-change choices and merging into traffic were less polished, and the supervising driver intervened at times, including when parking at the venue. The article says those interventions were driven partly by the driver’s judgment rather than clear necessity. XPeng had previously held smaller NGP test rides in Amsterdam and Munich; the longer Paris drive was presented as a further test of adapting the technology to European conditions. A Munich R&D center opened in September 2025 to work on localization.
XPeng plans to bring NGP to European customers in Q1 2027. The expected first wave covers Turing-chip models: the P7+ sedan, X9 MPV, L03 Ultra and the new seven-seat G9L SUV. Whether models using Nvidia’s Orin chip will receive the system has not been confirmed.