--- title: "Explore the ultimate L4 experience! XPeng Motors-W officially releases the second-generation VLA, promoting the establishment of a new paradigm for intelligent driving in China" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/277424121.md" description: "XPeng Motors-W officially launched its second-generation VLA intelligent driving system on March 2, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of intelligent driving. The new system has been comprehensively upgraded in environmental perception, decision-making planning, and vehicle control performance, and is expected to propel the company to become a new paradigm of intelligent driving technology in China. CEO He Xiaopeng stated that the second-generation VLA will explore L4 level autonomous driving experiences and has obtained road testing permits for intelligent connected vehicles in Guangzhou, with mass production imminent" datetime: "2026-03-02T07:51:04.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/277424121.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/277424121.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/277424121.md) --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/277424121.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/277424121.md) # Explore the ultimate L4 experience! XPeng Motors-W officially releases the second-generation VLA, promoting the establishment of a new paradigm for intelligent driving in China According to Zhitong Finance APP, XPeng Motors-W (09868) has reached a key milestone in its smart driving strategy. On March 2, XPeng Motors officially launched its second-generation VLA. CEO He Xiaopeng announced at the press conference that three new cars equipped with the second-generation VLA smart driving system will be delivered to three XPeng car owners. **The second-generation VLA has undergone a comprehensive upgrade based on the first generation, featuring stronger environmental perception capabilities, smarter decision-making and planning, and smoother vehicle control performance.** This launch marks a significant breakthrough for XPeng Motors in terms of technological architecture, strategic layout, and product ecosystem in the field of smart driving, and is expected to propel the company to become a definitional leader of a new paradigm in China's smart driving technology. He Xiaopeng stated that the end-to-end small model has reached its capability ceiling, and smart driving research and development has entered a "watershed moment." It was introduced that **the second-generation VLA of XPeng has fundamentally restructured the model paradigm**, with two parallel development plans: one ensures the baseline, providing a foundational experience of L2++, while the other invests 30,000 computing power and over 2 billion in R&D resources to explore the ultimate experience of L4, bringing autonomous driving into reality. The second-generation VLA model is set to be announced in November 2025, claiming to "perform brain-like reasoning," simulating different response strategies for various driving scenarios. **With the support of the second-generation VLA, XPeng Motors is about to introduce multiple new features**, including "Small Road NGP," which increases the average takeover mileage on complex small roads by 13 times. The second-generation VLA has also evolved new capabilities, including recognizing pedestrian gestures, stopping when waved at; it can also understand traffic light logic, allowing the vehicle to slowly creep forward when the red light is about to turn green. In addition, the senior director of autonomous driving products at XPeng Motors recently revealed that **mass production of the second-generation VLA is imminent**, with models equipped with the second-generation VLA having passed third-party site testing, officially obtaining road testing permits for intelligent connected vehicles in Guangzhou, and is currently conducting regular L4-level public road tests. Currently, the XPeng GX model has achieved complete closed-loop operations such as starting from a standstill, autonomous driving, stopping by the curb, and restarting to pick up passengers in a state without high-precision maps in the park and with no driver present. This marks that the second-generation VLA system, driven by end-to-end large models, has the capability for autonomous operation in complex urban scenarios without maps and human intervention. Relying on the integrated advantages of hardware and software, XPeng Motors continues to lead in the field of smart driving. The official release of the second-generation VLA is not only a successful move in XPeng Motors' AI strategy but also helps to build a strong "brand + technology" value barrier, laying a foundation for the company's long-term development ### Related Stocks - [XPeng Inc. 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