The MONA L05 launches from RMB139,800

Prices from RMB139,800

XPeng held the launch before about 5,000 MONA owners at a stadium in Guangzhou, where He Xiaopeng, XPeng’s chairman and chief executive, gave the prices. The large five-seat SUV is the third MONA car, after the M03 sedan and the L03 SUV, and is available as a battery-electric or range-extender model.

XPeng’s pre-sale prices of 15 October and launch prices of 29 October 2026; the change is XPulse’s arithmetic. A trim’s number is its range in kilometres on CLTC, China’s official test. Dollar figures in this article are at the US Federal Reserve’s rate of 23 October 2026, RMB6.67 to the dollar.

Some options are free for a limited time: a 20-speaker audio system, the purple and green paints, worth RMB2,999, and a front-seat package worth RMB9,999. The package brings XPeng’s own AI driver’s seat, which adjusts itself to the driver, and a reclining “zero-gravity” passenger seat. The 17.3-inch rear screen, which folds down from the roof, comes in a package worth RMB5,999 that costs RMB1,499 on a Max or Ultra SE trim ordered by 15 December.

RMB15,000 above the L03 on most trims

The L03’s prices also came down at its launch, in July. In Munich, two weeks after its pre-sale, XPeng lowered its battery-electric trims by RMB9,000 and its range-extender trims by RMB15,000. The L05’s five pre-sale trims came down by RMB20,000 each.

On most equivalent trims, the L05 now costs RMB15,000 (about US$2,200) more than the L03; between the two Plus trims, the gap is RMB16,000. When both cars were at their pre-sale prices, a battery-electric L05 cost RMB26,000 more.

Launch prices: the L03’s from XPeng’s release of 16 July, the L05’s from XPeng’s launch slides of 29 October 2026, with its cash discount. Each L05 trim is set against the L03 trim of its kind (the L03’s 550 Plus, 525 and 625 Max, 625 Ultra SE, 1330 Max and 1330 Ultra SE); the difference is XPulse’s arithmetic.

For that, buyers get a larger car with much more as standard. On an L03, adaptive dampers and front-seat massage alone cost RMB8,000 in options; every L05 has both.

What each trim adds

Standard equipment across the range includes adaptive dampers, heated and ventilated front seats with a 14-point massage, heated rear seats that recline electrically, a 17.3-inch centre screen, a 26.8-inch head-up display, a panoramic glass roof with a powered blind and seven airbags. The trims differ in driver assistance.

From XPeng’s launch slide of the L05’s trims, 29 October 2026. The Plus has assisted parking, remote parking and lane centring.

NGP is XPeng’s advanced driver assistance, which the driver supervises. On the Max trims it runs on a lighter version of VLA 2.0, XPeng’s AI driving model, and on the Ultra SE trims on the full model, which He Xiaopeng says is the one XPeng’s robotaxis use. The Plus is the only L05 without NGP, though 91% of MONA orders are for trims that have it, XPeng says.

Built ahead of launch, sold out in minutes

Before giving the prices, He Xiaopeng talked about the L03. After its launch, deliveries could not keep up and XPeng was “scolded”, he said: buyers wanted different trims from the ones it had planned for, and the supply chain and the factory had to catch up. For the L05, XPeng built 5,000 cars ahead of the launch. The quickest way to get one, he said, is to place and lock an order.

XPeng opened orders for those cars after the event. Vice-president Yu Tao set the terms on 28 October: a RMB10,000 deposit, or RMB7,000 to turn a pre-sale reservation into an order, with a car allocated as early as launch night.

They sold out that night. XPeng said every ready-built L05 had gone, and Yu Tao wrote that they went in about three minutes. For new orders, XPeng’s order page quoted five to nine weeks from a locked order to delivery, and two to six weeks for the 560 Plus.

L03 deliveries set to exceed 20,000 in October

The L05 arrives as L03 deliveries accelerate. XPeng expects to deliver more than 20,000 L03s in October, more than 15,000 of them in China. In September it delivered more than 14,000 L03s across every market.

European customers placed 12,136 L03 orders from July to September, according to XPeng, though the stores had no cars for test drives or display: the first cars went to buyers in China. Those buyers still come first, He Xiaopeng said, and the L03’s factory is raising its output.

MONA as a whole has delivered more than 360,000 cars since the M03 went on sale two years ago, more than 14,000 a month on average, with only two models on sale and the L03 just three months old.

The L05 is built on a new line of its own. Jiang Wen, who runs MONA, wrote on 14 October that the L03 and the L05 come from different factories, with separate allocation and shipping.

XPulse’s reading: the L05’s deliveries should add to the L03’s rather than take their place. With 5,000 cars built ahead of the launch, they can start at once, in the quarter in which XPeng has challenged itself to pass 60,000 sales in a single month.

What comes next

XPeng’s October deliveries are expected on 1 November. XPeng plans to bring the L05 to Europe early in 2027, and He Xiaopeng hopes to bring XPeng’s driver assistance there the same year, as the rules come into force.