The Paris Motor Show is about to get a glimpse of the entire future at once.
XPeng announced on September 30 that it will make a major appearance at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, October 12 through 18, headlined by the global launch of its next-generation AI flagship SUV, the G9L. But the cars are only part of the story. Across a 1,000-square-meter stand in Hall 6, the company is building an immersive “Physical AI Museum” with four zones: its technology stack, AI-defined vehicles, humanoid robots, and flying cars.
It’s the clearest statement yet of where XPeng thinks the industry is going. Not just smarter cars, but a single technology foundation stretching from the road to the sidewalk to the sky.
## The G9L goes global
The G9L sits at the center of the stand, making its global debut in Paris on October 12. XPeng will open European order books and reveal European pricing at the show, marking the model’s transition from its China launch to a worldwide rollout. The G9L will also become the fourth XPeng model produced in Europe, part of the company’s “In Europe, For Europe” push.
The numbers behind that push are substantial. XPeng has delivered more than 100,000 vehicles overseas, including over 60,000 in Europe and more than 6,000 in France alone since entering the market two years ago. Overseas deliveries topped 20,000 in the second quarter for the first time, up 81 percent year on year. The L03 SUV coupe, which debuted globally in Munich in July, is about to begin its first European customer deliveries.
European R&D is doing the quiet work underneath. The company’s Munich center is localizing intelligent driving for European roads, traffic, and regulations, leaning on the generalization abilities of XPeng’s foundation models. The Turing AI chip and world foundation model architecture underneath it all is the same stack that powers everything else on the stand.
## Robots, flying cars, and a very exclusive test drive
The Physical AI Museum is where things get interesting. XPeng is advancing its IRON general-purpose humanoid robot toward mass production; the robot rolled off a newly commissioned production line in September. In August, the robotics business closed a first funding round of over $900 million, the largest single-round private raise in China’s embodied AI industry. Flying cars and robotaxi development round out the exhibit, all running on the same unified software and hardware foundation as the cars.
Then there’s the Autonomous Lab. XPeng and Tesla will be the only two automakers participating in the show’s official autonomous driving experience, putting XPeng’s NGP intelligent driving tech to a public test with its recently launched L03 SUV coupe. For XPeng, it’s the first large-scale NGP test ride experience outside China, giving European customers and media direct access to its latest capabilities.
Sharing that stage with Tesla is no accident. It’s XPeng positioning itself as one of the two companies whose self-driving technology is worth experiencing in person, on European roads, in front of the industry’s toughest audience.
## Building where it sells
The local-production angle deserves a closer look. The G9L becomes the fourth XPeng model built in Europe, and the company keeps returning to its “In Europe, For Europe” formula: European R&D in Munich adapting intelligent driving to local roads and regulations, European factories, European pricing. It’s a direct answer to the tariff and supply-chain anxieties hanging over every Chinese automaker’s export plans.
There’s a quiet statement in the stand’s size as well. More than 1,000 square meters in Hall 6 puts XPeng among the largest Chinese exhibitors, shoulder to shoulder with European legacy brands. A decade ago, Chinese automakers came to Paris hoping for attention. This year, one of them is hosting a museum of the future and sharing the autonomous test track with Tesla.
## What it means
For travelers, the G9L’s European order books opening on October 12 is the near-term news: another AI-defined flagship becomes buyable on the continent, with local production behind it. The longer-term signal is the museum concept itself. XPeng is betting that the company selling you a car today will sell you the robot in your hallway and the aircraft over your commute tomorrow, all on one platform.
For cities, the “In Europe, For Europe” model is the template to watch. Local manufacturing, local R&D, products tuned for local roads. As Chinese automakers expand, the winners will be the ones that build where they sell. Paris gets the debut; Munich gets the engineering jobs.
For investors, the $900 million robotics raise and the IRON production line say the physical AI story is no longer a side project. It’s a funded, manufacturing-stage business inside an automaker that already ships 20,000 vehicles a quarter overseas. The Paris stand is XPeng’s argument that the future of mobility is one integrated portfolio, not a collection of bets. On October 12, the industry gets to walk through it.
The press conference runs 11:10 to 11:25 a.m. on October 12 at Hall 6, Booth A51, preceded by an XPeng Paris Night brand event on October 11. Fifteen minutes on stage, and then the doors open on the museum.
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