BEIJING, China – Li Auto Inc. (“Li Auto” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015), a preeminent force in China’s dynamic new energy vehicle market, today proudly announced the official launch of the Li i8, a groundbreaking six-seat battery electric family SUV. Representing a significant leap forward in automotive design and technology, the Li i8 is engineered to transcend traditional vehicle categories, seamlessly integrating the formidable all-terrain capabilities typically found in robust off-road vehicles, the refined handling dynamics of performance sedans, and the expansive comfort and versatility of premium MPVs. This innovative synthesis redefines family mobility, promising an entirely new and unparalleled driving and riding experience for the modern household.
The Li i8 will be available in three meticulously designed trims, catering to a diverse range of preferences and needs: the Pro, Max, and Ultra variants. These models will retail at highly competitive price points of RMB321,800, RMB349,800, and RMB369,800, respectively, offering exceptional value within the premium electric SUV segment. Excitement is building as deliveries of the Li i8 are slated to commence swiftly, beginning on August 20, 2025, ensuring that families can soon experience this revolutionary vehicle firsthand. For a more comprehensive exploration of the Li i8’s features and specifications, prospective customers and enthusiasts are encouraged to visit Li Auto’s official website.
Pioneering a New High-Voltage Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Platform
At the heart of the Li i8’s transformative capabilities lies Li Auto’s newly developed, state-of-the-art high-voltage battery electric platform. This advanced architecture is a testament to Li Auto’s relentless pursuit of innovation, featuring a suite of proprietary technologies including an in-house developed electric drive system, a cutting-edge 5C battery pack, and access to an expansive nationwide 5C super charging network.
1) Proprietary Electric Drive System: Ultra-Quiet, Ultra-Efficient
Li Auto’s commitment to engineering excellence is evident in its in-house developed electric drive system, meticulously designed to achieve unparalleled cabin quietness and superior energy efficiency. This system incorporates a proprietary rotor-stator structure and an advanced transmission system, both specifically engineered to minimize vibration and noise within the Li i8 cabin, setting a new industry benchmark for interior tranquility. Furthermore, the Li i8’s electric drive system integrates Li Auto’s self-developed silicon carbide power chips and modules. These components are crucial for their high efficiency, remarkably low energy losses, and rapid heat dissipation capabilities, all of which contribute significantly to enhanced energy savings and extended range. To ensure full control over quality and the seamless implementation of these advanced in-house technologies, Li Auto has also established its own dedicated motor factory.
2) In-House Developed Ternary Lithium 5C Super Charging Battery Pack
Powering the Li i8 are options for highly advanced ternary lithium 5C super charging battery packs, available in 90.1 kilowatt-hours and 97.8 kilowatt-hours capacities. With all-wheel drive offered as a standard configuration across all trims, the Li i8 delivers an impressive CLTC (China Light-duty Vehicle Test Cycle) range of 670 kilometers for the 90.1 kilowatt-hours option and an even more remarkable 720 kilometers for the 97.8 kilowatt-hours battery pack. The synergy between Li Auto’s in-house developed drive motor and the vehicle’s optimized low-drag design are instrumental in achieving this industry-leading range attainment rate. Moreover, coupled with an industry-leading battery thermal management system, the Li i8 ensures sustained high-power charging, capable of achieving a 500-kilometer driving range with just 10 minutes of charging. This ultra-fast charging capability significantly mitigates range anxiety, making long-distance travel more convenient than ever. Adding to consumer confidence, Li Auto’s rigorous battery lifespan tests confirm that the Li i8’s battery health remains robust, staying above 80% even after an impressive 1,500 full charge-discharge cycles in super charging mode.
3) The Largest Super Charging Network Among Chinese Automakers
To robustly support the widespread adoption and seamless operation of its battery electric vehicles, Li Auto has proactively constructed and deployed the largest super charging network among all Chinese automakers. This extensive infrastructure currently boasts 3,000 super charging stations in operation. This impressive network includes approximately 1,000 strategically located highway stations, ensuring comprehensive coverage across nine major east–west and nine major north–south highway routes, with an average spacing of roughly 150 kilometers. Complementing this, there are 2,000 urban stations meticulously distributed across over 250 cities, providing convenient charging solutions for daily commutes and urban exploration.
Yacht-Inspired Design: A Fusion of Aesthetics and Aerodynamics
The Li i8’s visually striking and avant-garde yacht-inspired design is not merely for aesthetics; it is a masterclass in aerodynamic efficiency, exceptional space utilization, and outstanding visibility. With an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.218, the vehicle significantly reduces wind noise and optimizes energy consumption, contributing to its impressive range. Despite its sleek profile, the Li i8 is a large SUV, boasting generous dimensions of 5,085 millimeters in length, 1,960 millimeters in width, and 1,740 millimeters in height, with a substantial 3,050-millimeter wheelbase. This intelligent design translates into an interior space that remarkably surpasses that of many full-size SUVs, offering unparalleled roominess. Critically, the Li i8 ensures every family user on board benefits from excellent forward and peripheral visibility, enhancing safety and comfort for all occupants.
The SUV of a New Era: Redefining Performance and Comfort
The Li i8 truly embodies the concept of an SUV for a new era, deriving its exceptional versatility from a powerful synergy of outstanding off-road capabilities, refined handling, and expansive spaciousness.
For those adventurous family excursions, the Li i8 boasts an off-roader’s remarkable passability, formidable slope-climbing power, and inherent ability to confidently handle rough terrains. In terms of off-road performance, every Li i8 comes standard with a sophisticated dual-chamber Li Magic Carpet air suspension, offering four adjustable height settings and a generous maximum ground clearance of 196 millimeters. Furthermore, all trims are equipped with a potent dual-motor, all-wheel drive system as a standard configuration, enabling the vehicle to competently navigate a wide range of challenging road conditions with ease and stability.
Simultaneously, the Li i8 delivers sedan-like handling stability, exhilarating performance, and effortless entry and exit. This is achieved through its inherently low-center-of-gravity design, a hallmark of battery electric vehicles, coupled with an exceptional body torsional stiffness of 49,500 Nm/degree. Its advanced chassis features a front double-wishbone and rear five-link suspension system, ensuring precise control and a smooth ride. The vehicle’s dynamic capabilities are further highlighted by a blistering 0-100 km/h acceleration as quick as 4.5 seconds, providing instant power when needed. Thoughtful design also extends to practicality, with a minimum second-row side sill ground clearance of just 401 millimeters for easy access.
Moreover, the Li i8 offers MPV-like premium spaciousness and unparalleled comfort, making every journey a luxurious experience. Its innovative wraparound-style seats feature meticulously optimized backrest and cushion surfaces, delivering enhanced support and a truly hugging comfort. The Li i8 also features a zero-gravity seat on the right side of the second row, providing ultimate relaxation. The third row is designed to be comparable to those found in top-tier MPVs, ensuring genuine comfort for all six occupants. Even with all three rows in use, the Li i8 maintains a practical trunk depth of 565 millimeters, easily meeting the extensive travel needs of large families. For added luxury and convenience, the Li i8 can also be equipped with a large floating table, delivering an experience rivaling that of the high-tech Li MEGA.
Industry-Leading Safety Capabilities: Protecting Every Journey
Safety is paramount in the Li i8, which integrates industry-leading passive and active safety features designed to protect every passenger. For passive safety, the Li i8 employs a multi-path force transmission design in the front compartment, featuring three longitudinal force transmission paths. This innovative design significantly enhances energy dispersion during frontal collisions, minimizing impact forces on the occupants. The front compartment further integrates 11 circular energy-absorbing structures, which effectively absorb and dissipate collision energy, ensuring the overall structural integrity of the vehicle and significantly enhancing the safety of the occupant cabin. Additionally, the Li i8 features comprehensive airbag protection with extended side curtain airbags for wider coverage and door handles specifically engineered to remain unlockable even in the rare event of power failures, ensuring emergency egress. The vehicle is also meticulously engineered to meet stringent eco-health standards, prioritizing a clean and safe interior environment. Critically, its battery system has undergone rigorous safety testing under extreme conditions, including prolonged submersion and freezing, fully complying with rigorous safety protocols for electric vehicles. In terms of active safety, all Li i8 trims come standard with cutting-edge LiDAR sensors and are equipped with enhanced automatic emergency steering (AES), proactively mitigating collision risks from other vehicles on the road.
An All-New Assisted Driving and Smart Space Experience
The Li i8 sets new benchmarks in intelligent mobility, offering an advanced assisted driving and smart space experience.
For assisted driving, the Li i8 Pro comes standard with the capable Li AD Pro assisted driving system, powered by a Horizon Robotics J6M chip delivering a robust total computing power of 128 TOPS. Stepping up, the Li i8 Max and Ultra models are equipped with the highly advanced Li AD Max assisted driving system, featuring a powerful NVIDIA Thor-U chip with an impressive total computing power of 700 TOPS. Looking ahead, the launch of urban NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) on the Horizon Robotics J6M platform by year-end promises to significantly enhance the assisted driving capabilities of the Li AD Pro. The Li AD Max will integrate Li Auto’s revolutionary self-developed VLA driver large model, which boasts sophisticated understanding, reasoning, memory, and communication capabilities. This model evolves continuously through reinforcement learning, transforming into an increasingly intuitive and personalized digital driver. By combining spatial intelligence, linguistic intelligence, and behavioral strategies, the VLA driver large model leverages a human-like technical architecture to deliver notable improvements in safe driving, smoothness and comfort, efficient three-point turns, seamless continuous task execution, and precise underground parking maneuvers. The rapid development of the VLA driver large model has greatly benefited from Li Auto’s significant R&D advantages in data acquisition, sophisticated algorithms, robust computing power, and advanced engineering capabilities. This includes optimized data allocation, the strategic use of generated data, high model evaluation efficiency, a closed loop of reinforcement learning, as well as increasing investments in computing power, robust quantitative accuracy, and multi-platform deployment capabilities. The VLA driver large model will be fully rolled out to AD Max models equipped with both Orin-X and Thor-U chips concurrently with the delivery of the Li i8.
In terms of smart space, Li Auto’s in-house developed foundation model, MindGPT-powered Li Xiang Tong Xue, has evolved beyond a simple voice assistant to become the highly intelligent Li Xiang Tong Xue Agent. This advanced agent can independently utilize various tools, resolve complex tasks, and possesses personalized memory, making interactions exceptionally intuitive and seamless. Nearly all in-vehicle functions of the Li i8 have undergone tool-based integration for Li Xiang Tong Xue Agent, allowing it to control features like electric air vents for climate control and windshield wipers effortlessly. For complex tasks, Li Xiang Tong Xue Agent leverages Li Auto’s advanced model capabilities to understand user intent and achieve goals efficiently. For instance, it can autonomously invoke tools like the Meituan app to fulfill in-store food pickup requests or activate the vehicle’s external cameras to scan QR codes in parking lots for payment. The Li i8 also features the industry-first Desktop Master functionality, enabling user-programmable code generation and the dynamic creation of new tools, content, and services, offering unparalleled customization. Furthermore, with the June rollout of Face ID and the new family account system, Li Xiang Tong Xue Agent can now remember specific information about each individual family member to deliver truly personalized experiences while rigorously ensuring data security. This makes daily use more convenient, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant for every family member.
Elevating the Brand: A New Era for Li Auto
At the momentous launch event, Li Auto proudly announced a significant brand upgrade, reaffirming its steadfast commitment to providing a high-quality home and a premium private space for a diverse range of consumers, all while continuing to meticulously meet the evolving needs of family users. The Company has pledged to uphold its core brand value proposition of “private space, deep connection, and cherished experience,” simultaneously dedicating substantial ongoing investment in product innovation and intelligent technologies. Through the creation of sophisticated, liberating, and distinctive mobile spaces, Li Auto aims to fulfill its overarching mission: Create a Mobile Home, Create Happiness (创造移动的家,创造幸福的家). This brand evolution signifies Li Auto’s broadening vision to serve not just families, but anyone seeking an elevated, connected, and joyful in-vehicle experience.
- China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) market continues its rapid expansion, driven by government incentives, increasing consumer environmental awareness, and advanced technological innovation, positioning companies like Li Auto for sustained growth.
- Li Auto is renowned for its focus on user-centric design and practical innovation, particularly in creating spacious, comfortable, and intelligent vehicles tailored to the specific needs of modern families.
- The Company’s aggressive build-out of its 5C super charging network addresses a critical barrier to BEV adoption, providing a significant competitive advantage and enhancing the overall user experience for its electric vehicle owners.
- Li Auto’s strong in-house R&D capabilities, especially in electric drive systems, battery technology, and advanced AI-powered assisted driving (like the VLA driver large model), underscore its commitment to technological leadership and future-proofing its product offerings.
About Li Auto Inc.
Li Auto Inc. stands as a pioneering leader in China’s new energy vehicle market, dedicated to the design, development, manufacture, and sale of premium smart electric vehicles. Its profound mission is encapsulated in the ethos: Create a Mobile Home, Create Happiness (创造移动的家,创造幸福的幸福). Through relentless innovations across product development, technological advancements, and business model refinement, the Company is committed to providing families with vehicles that exemplify safety, convenience, and unparalleled comfort. Li Auto has distinguished itself as a pioneer in successfully commercializing extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) in China. While steadfastly advancing along this successful technological route, the Company is concurrently building robust platforms for cutting-edge battery electric vehicles (BEVs), exemplified by the new Li i8. Li Auto strategically leverages technology to create enduring value for its users, concentrating its in-house development efforts on proprietary range extension systems, groundbreaking electric vehicle technologies, and sophisticated smart vehicle solutions. The Company commenced volume production in November 2019, and its current comprehensive model lineup includes a high-tech flagship family MPV, four Li L series extended-range electric SUVs, and now one Li i series battery electric SUV. Li Auto is committed to continuously expanding its product lineup to target an even broader user base, ensuring its innovative mobility solutions cater to diverse needs and preferences.
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