Gasgoo Munich- On April 1, Li Auto reported March deliveries of 41,053 vehicles, bringing its first-quarter total to 95,142 units. As of the end of March, the company's cumulative deliveries reached 1.64 million vehicles, underscoring its continued momentum in China's competitive new energy vehicle market.
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The company said production bottlenecks that had constrained output earlier in the year were fully resolved after the Chinese New Year, allowing deliveries of the Li i6 to accelerate sharply. Monthly deliveries of the model surpassed 24,000 units in March, placing it among the top performers in China's RMB 200,000–300,000 battery electric SUV segment.
Momentum is also building for the Li i8, with orders more than doubling month-on-month in March, supported by strong user feedback. Meanwhile, Li Auto is preparing to launch the next-generation Li L9 in the second quarter. The upcoming flagship SUV is expected to feature the company's in-house M100 chip, a steer-by-wire chassis architecture, and an 800V fully active suspension system—technologies the automaker positions as enabling a new level of integrated perception, decision-making, and vehicle control.
At the NVIDIA GTC 2026, Li Auto unveiled its next-generation autonomous driving foundation model, MindVLA, alongside a new 3D vision transformer (ViT) encoder designed to interpret real-world environments in three dimensions. According to founder and CEO Li Xiang, the system aims to unify geometric and semantic understanding of physical space, bringing machine perception closer to human-level spatial reasoning. He added that the architecture is intended not only for autonomous driving but also for broader applications in intelligent physical systems.
Li Auto continues to expand its retail and service footprint across China. By the end of March, the company operated 517 retail stores in 160 cities, alongside 552 after-sales and authorized service centers spanning 223 cities. Its charging network has also scaled rapidly, reaching 4,057 fast-charging stations with more than 22,439 charging piles nationwide.
