The Li One (, stylized in

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) is a range-extender

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produced by Chinese manufacturer

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. It is the first production vehicle from the manufacturer. As of 2021, it had the second-longest electric range of any

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in the world (180 km in the NEDC cycle) after the

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120 Ah REx (203 km in the EPA cycle).

History

The One was presented in April 2019 at the

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. It has been in series production in

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since November 2019. The first vehicles were delivered in China from early 2020. After three years on the Chinese market, the Li One was discontinued in October 2022 to make way for the newer

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Specifications

The vehicle can be described as a range extended vehicle or as a

. It has two electric motors: a motor in the front and a motor in the rear. It is also equipped with a front-mounted 1.2-litre turbocharged 3-cylinder petrol engine with a petrol tank capacity. The newer face-lifted model has a gas tank of . The petrol engine is a

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for the electric motors; it does not directly power the wheels. Total power output is and . The company claims a NEDC range of . The facelifted model has a NEDC range of , and an electric-only NEDC range of . Charging to 80% takes 40 minutes with a fast charger. A full charge at 200V takes 6 hours. Battery capacity is , out of which is usable. It is a sport utility vehicle, available with six or seven seats in three rows. The interior has several screens, and the infotainment system runs on

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, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A processor. The Li Xiang One will be equipped with a Level 2 Autonomous Driving system. Competing models include the

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plug-in hybrid, the

600/600D and the NIO ES8 (although the first one has a considerably smaller battery, and the two others are not plug-in hybrids but pure

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with much larger batteries). The combination of a small internal combustion engine with a battery that is noticeably larger than in most plug-in hybrids resembles that of the

REx.

Safety

Sales

As of 1 April 2021, the vehicle sold in over 45,000 units in China since its market debut. Among those plug-in vehicles that retain an internal combustion engine (i.e., among plug-in hybrid and

), the best-selling vehicle in China was the Li One, both in 2020 and in Q1 2021.

References

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