Xpeng Hit a Record 50,237 Deliveries in October. Here Is How Its Quarters Compare With Škoda and Volvo

Xpeng, the Chinese carmaker, delivered a record 50,237 vehicles in October 2026, up 20% on a year earlier, according to its own delivery release. Of those, 13,326 went to customers outside China, also a monthly record and 166% more than in October 2025. Unfortunately, the release doesn’t say how many of the overseas cars were delivered in Europe.

Here are the models Xpeng offers in Europe and the cars they compete with.

Rivals are my own assessment of each model’s closest competitors, based on size and price. The G9L launched in Europe at the Paris Motor Show on 12 October from €74,990 in France, according to Xpeng’s release, and the release doesn’t say when deliveries start.

I compare Xpeng with Škoda and Volvo for two reasons. Škoda is a strong European carmaker, and in its own nine-month release it calls itself the second best-selling brand in Europe. Volvo is a European brand owned by the Chinese group Geely, which makes it the most interesting yardstick I could find. I would have liked to add Volkswagen as well, but I couldn’t find its numbers for electric and plug-in hybrid cars independent of the other brands in the group.

A single month is easy to cherry-pick, so I looked at the full year so far. Xpeng’s first-quarter results put its deliveries at 62,682, which was 33.3% fewer than a year earlier. The company’s June update shows 103,295 for the second quarter, and its September update 118,390 for the third.

Xpeng doesn’t split these figures by powertrain, so I set them against the fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars of the other two and left out their petrol and diesel sales. Every figure is a worldwide delivery number. Škoda belongs to Volkswagen Group but publishes its own figures in its first-quarter, half-year and nine-month releases. Volvo reports its cars in the first-quarter, second-quarter and third-quarter sales releases.

Sources: the company releases linked above. Škoda’s second and third quarters are my calculation from its half-year and nine-month totals, which it reports as fully electric plus plug-in hybrid cars.

Xpeng was 0.8% behind Škoda in the first quarter and 14% behind Volvo. It overtook both in the second quarter, and by the third it delivered 67% more cars than Škoda sold electrified ones and 56% more than Volvo. From the first to the third quarter Xpeng grew 89%, Škoda 12.0% and Volvo 4.2%. That pace is why I argued in my opinion piece on Xpeng’s European plans that the company will stick around, and the quarterly numbers so far support it.

The mix of electric and hybrid cars differs a lot between the two European brands. Of the 203,100 electrified cars Škoda delivered from January to September, 167,400 were fully electric, or 82%, and the rest were plug-in hybrids (about 35,700, my calculation). Volvo’s fully electric cars made up only 53% of its electrified deliveries over the same nine months (my calculation from its quarterly releases). The third quarter shows why: Volvo’s fully electric sales rose 28.6% to 45,060 while its plug-in hybrids fell 18.0% to 30,589, so the electrified total moved up just 4.6%.

What October Adds to the Picture

Xpeng’s October isn’t directly comparable with the other two, because Škoda and Volvo report by quarter and I couldn’t find October figures from either. As a rough yardstick, Xpeng averaged about 39,500 deliveries a month in the third quarter (my calculation), so October’s 50,237 is 27% higher. Škoda averaged about 23,600 electrified cars a month over the same quarter (my calculation) and Volvo about 25,200, which puts Xpeng’s October at roughly twice their pace. Its 13,326 overseas cars alone equal about 56% of Škoda’s monthly average and 53% of Volvo’s, although overseas covers every market outside China, not only Europe.

Here is how the three compare over the first nine months.

Figures marked * are my calculation from the quarterly figures in the releases above.

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