XPeng G6 vs Xiaomi YU7: Mid-Size EV SUV Landed-Cost Showdown - China EV Mart

TL;DR

The XPeng G6 and the Xiaomi YU7 pay the same tariff treatment — 10% standard duty plus a 20.7% countervailing duty inside the EU, and no countervailing duty in the UK, Norway, Australia, the UAE, or Thailand — so their landed-cost gap is set entirely by the $10,870 difference in ex-factory price, compounded by each market’s tax stack. In Germany the G6 lands at $45,830.48 against $63,004.68 for the YU7, a gap of $17,174.20; in Thailand the same two cars land at $31,218.10 and $42,849.00, a gap of $11,630.90 — and across all 30 markets in the dataset, the YU7 always lands above the G6.

Definitions

Ex-factory price — what the car costs at the Chinese factory gate, before ocean freight, duty, or tax. The G6’s ex-factory figure in China EV Mart’s records is $24,830; the YU7’s is $35,700.
Landed cost — the all-in cost of getting a car to a registered, road-legal state in the destination market: ex-factory price + standard import duty + countervailing duty + VAT/GST + RoRo freight + customs clearance + certification + registration + inland transport. It is a B2B import estimate, not a retail price. Every figure in this article follows China EV Mart’s documented landed-cost formula.
Countervailing duty (CVD) — the EU’s anti-subsidy tariff on Chinese-built battery-electric vehicles, layered on top of the standard 10% import duty and set per producer under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2754. Neither car has an individually assessed rate; both are modeled at the 20.7% “other cooperating producer” default.
Compounding — the rates multiply, they do not add: CVD is assessed on the duty-inclusive value, and VAT/GST lands last on top of both. A 10% duty and a 20.7% CVD combine to 32.77% of the ex-factory value, not 30.7%.
VAT/GST recoverability — for VAT-registered B2B importers, VAT/GST is often reclaimable and behaves as a cash-flow item; duty and CVD are permanent costs. The figures below show the full VAT-inclusive cash needed at the border.

The two cars, side by side

Attribute	XPeng G6	Xiaomi YU7
Class (per China EV Mart records)	Compact SUV	Mid-size SUV
Length / wheelbase	4,758 mm / 2,890 mm	4,999 mm / 3,000 mm
Width / height	1,920 mm / 1,650 mm	1,996 mm / 1,608 mm
Curb weight	2,030 kg	2,315 kg
Battery	68.5 kWh	96.3 kWh
Range (CLTC)	625 km	835 km
Motor power / torque	218 kW / 450 Nm	235 kW / 528 Nm
0–100 km/h	6.4 s	5.88 s
Top speed	202 km/h	240 km/h
Efficiency	12.5 kWh/100 km	13.3 kWh/100 km
Fast charge (10–80%)	12 min	20 min
Ex-factory price	$24,830	$35,700
EU countervailing duty	20.7%	20.7%

Two qualifications matter before the money. First, these are adjacent segments, not twins: at 4,758 mm the G6 is the smaller vehicle (its record classifies it as a compact SUV), while the YU7 is a mid-size SUV at 4,999 mm — 241 mm longer, with a 110 mm longer wheelbase and a 27.8 kWh larger battery. Second, both range figures are CLTC, the Chinese test cycle, so they are comparable to each other but not directly comparable to WLTP or EPA figures quoted elsewhere. Specs for both cars come from the G6 record and the YU7 record.

The tariff stack: two Chinese brands, one identical rate

Most China-to-Europe import stories are stories about a tariff wedge: Tesla (Shanghai) pays 7.8% countervailing duty, BYD 17%, Geely 18.8%, SAIC 35.3%, and the “other cooperating producer” default sits at 20.7%. Both XPeng and Xiaomi fall under that default 20.7% rate — neither has an individually assessed rate in China EV Mart’s tariff schedule — so there is no regulatory asymmetry between these two cars to exploit.

That makes this comparison unusually clean: every dollar of difference in the landed totals below comes from (a) the $10,870 ex-factory gap and (b) each market’s own tax treatment of an imported BEV.

Layer (identical for both cars)	Germany	France	UK	Norway	Australia	UAE	Thailand
Standard import duty	10%	10%	10%	0%	0%	5%	0%
Countervailing duty	20.7%	20.7%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
VAT / GST	19%	20%	20%	25%	10%	5%	7%

Rates as modeled in China EV Mart’s market and tariff records; both cars share the same rates in every market. Where the countervailing duty disappears — the UK, Norway, the Gulf, Australia, Thailand — a large slice of the EU premium goes with it. The full mechanics are in the landed-cost methodology.

Landed cost by market, line by line

Seven markets, both cars, the same compounding chain used across the catalog: ex-factory → standard duty → countervailing duty → VAT/GST → fixed costs → landed total. Values are USD.

XPeng G6 ($24,830 ex-factory)

Market	Ex-factory	Standard duty	CVD (20.7%)	VAT/GST	Fixed costs	Landed
Germany	24,830.00	2,483.00	5,653.79	6,263.69	6,600.00	45,830.48
France	24,830.00	2,483.00	5,653.79	6,593.36	6,500.00	46,060.15
United Kingdom	24,830.00	2,483.00	0.00	5,462.60	6,250.00	39,025.60
Norway	24,830.00	0.00	0.00	6,207.50	7,250.00	38,287.50
Australia	24,830.00	0.00	0.00	2,483.00	5,850.00	33,163.00
UAE	24,830.00	1,241.50	0.00	1,303.58	4,450.00	31,825.08
Thailand	24,830.00	0.00	0.00	1,738.10	4,650.00	31,218.10

Xiaomi YU7 ($35,700 ex-factory)

Market	Ex-factory	Standard duty	CVD (20.7%)	VAT/GST	Fixed costs	Landed
Germany	35,700.00	3,570.00	8,128.89	9,005.79	6,600.00	63,004.68
France	35,700.00	3,570.00	8,128.89	9,479.78	6,500.00	63,378.67
United Kingdom	35,700.00	3,570.00	0.00	7,854.00	6,250.00	53,374.00
Norway	35,700.00	0.00	0.00	8,925.00	7,250.00	51,875.00
Australia	35,700.00	0.00	0.00	3,570.00	5,850.00	45,120.00
UAE	35,700.00	1,785.00	0.00	1,874.25	4,450.00	43,809.25
Thailand	35,700.00	0.00	0.00	2,499.00	4,650.00	42,849.00

Fixed costs are a combined stack — RoRo freight, customs clearance, certification/homologation, registration, and inland transport — as they enter the vehicle records; both cars carry the same fixed stack in each market, so fixed costs cancel out of the gap between them. Note how the tax columns multiply rather than add: in Germany the G6’s duty and CVD together add $8,136.79 before VAT touches the car, and the YU7 pays $11,698.89 on the same two lines.

The gap, market by market

Market	G6 landed (USD)	YU7 landed (USD)	Gap (YU7 − G6)	G6 premium	YU7 premium
Germany	45,830.48	63,004.68	17,174.20	+84.6%	+76.5%
France	46,060.15	63,378.67	17,318.52	+85.5%	+77.5%
United Kingdom	39,025.60	53,374.00	14,348.40	+57.2%	+49.5%
Norway	38,287.50	51,875.00	13,587.50	+54.2%	+45.3%
Australia	33,163.00	45,120.00	11,957.00	+33.6%	+26.4%
UAE	31,825.08	43,809.25	11,984.17	+28.2%	+22.7%
Thailand	31,218.10	42,849.00	11,630.90	+25.7%	+20.0%

The gap is not a coincidence — it is arithmetic. Because fixed costs cancel, the difference reduces to:

gap = $10,870 × (1 + standard duty) × (1 + CVD) × (1 + VAT)

That multiplier is 1.58× in Germany, 1.59× in France, 1.32× in the UK, 1.25× in Norway, 1.10× in Australia, 1.1025× in the UAE, and 1.07× in Thailand. The EU’s stacked duties plus VAT turn a $10,870 factory-gate difference into more than $17,000 of landed difference; Thailand applies 7% VAT and nothing else, leaving $11,630.90. Same two cars, a $5,687.62 swing in the gap between the widest market (France) and the narrowest (Thailand).

Two readings of the table are both true and worth keeping separate:

In absolute dollars, the EU is where the G6’s price advantage matters most. Germany ($17,174.20) and France ($17,318.52) produce the two widest gaps of the seven, because duty, CVD, and VAT compound on every extra dollar of ex-factory value. If an importer’s whole thesis is “the G6 is cheaper,” the EU maximises that difference — while also being the most expensive place to land either car.
The percentage premiums can mislead. The YU7’s premium over its own base (+76.5% in Germany) is lower than the G6’s (+84.6%) because fixed costs spread across a larger base price — that is dilution, not a relative bargain. In absolute terms the YU7’s landed cost is higher in every market, and it runs 35.5% (Norway) to 37.7% (UAE) above the G6 across these seven.

The Author’s Take

Position

The cheaper import is the XPeng G6 — in every market in this dataset, by margins from $11,413.50 (Qatar) to $18,913.80 (Mexico) across all 30 markets. But I want to be precise about what that does and does not mean. It does not mean the G6 is the “better” car. It means that when both cars arrive on the same ship, the G6 costs $10,870 less at the factory gate, and every tax authority between the port and the registration office multiplies that single advantage in its own way — most aggressively in the EU, least in Thailand.

Reasoning

Three things drive my read:

There is no tariff wedge to arbitrage. This is not a Tesla-vs-BYD story where producer-specific countervailing duties decide the outcome; XPeng and Xiaomi share the same 20.7% default rate. The comparison therefore isolates exactly two variables — factory-gate price and destination-market taxes — which makes it the cleanest kind of landed-cost duel: nothing to exploit, nothing to hide.
The EU is the wrong place to be the more expensive Chinese EV. Germany’s and France’s ~1.58–1.59× multipliers produce the widest gaps of the seven; the same pair of cars compresses its difference by more than $5,600 when it lands in Thailand instead of France. An importer who can choose a market should weigh that compression carefully — the G6’s absolute price advantage is largest in the EU, but so is the capital tie-up on both cars.
Segment reality check. The YU7 is 241 mm longer, 110 mm longer in wheelbase, and 27.8 kWh bigger in battery than the G6 — the extra ex-factory money buys a materially larger vehicle, and 20 kWh-plus of battery is an expensive component. The landed math sizes the cost of each choice; it does not settle whether the bigger car is worth $11,600–$17,300 more at the border. That is a buyer’s call about how much car their use case actually needs.

Disclosure

The limits, honestly stated:

Everything here derives from China EV Mart’s tier-1 catalog records — manufacturer-spec sheets and the 30-market landed-cost estimates — produced with the documented methodology and central fixed-cost benchmarks. These are B2B import estimates: not quotes, not retail prices, and not legal or tax advice.
No retail on-the-road prices for either car are in the dataset, so this is landed cost versus landed cost. A dealer’s real-world cost will also carry margin, warranty provisioning, and currency exposure that no model of this kind can see.
Range, efficiency, and charging figures are manufacturer specifications on the CLTC cycle; the dataset contains no independent real-world range or efficiency data for either car, so real-world range is unknown here.
The EU countervailing-duty schedule retains its last-confirmed values pending an upstream re-verification; trade policy can change, and a rate change would move every EU number in this article.
VAT/GST is included in full. Registered B2B importers should model their own recovery position — it can change the relative attractiveness of high-tax and low-tax markets.

Key statistics

Same tariff treatment, different price tags. Both cars sit at the EU’s 20.7% countervailing duty; the entire landed gap is the $10,870 ex-factory difference, compounded by market taxes.
Germany: $45,830.48 vs $63,004.68 (+$17,174.20). France’s gap is the widest of the seven at $17,318.52; Thailand’s the narrowest at $11,630.90.
The multiplier decides everything: 1.58× in Germany and 1.59× in France down to 1.07× in Thailand — a $5,687.62 swing between the seven markets on identical cars.
Premium percentages mislead. The YU7’s lower % premium (+76.5% vs +84.6% in Germany) is fixed-cost dilution, not a bargain; its absolute landed cost is higher in all 30 markets.
Cheapest entries of the seven markets are Thailand ($31,218.10 / $42,849.00) and the UAE ($31,825.08 / $43,809.25); the EU is the most expensive for both cars — and the place where the gap between them is widest.

Sources

European Commission (EUR-Lex) — “Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2754 — definitive countervailing duties on battery electric vehicles from China” — https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2754/oj — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “XPENG G6 vehicle record and 30-market landed-cost data (tier-1; ex-factory $24,830; Germany landed $45,830.48)” — https://chinaevmart.com/vehicles/xpeng-g6/ — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “Xiaomi YU7 vehicle record and 30-market landed-cost data (tier-1; ex-factory $35,700; Germany landed $63,004.68)” — https://chinaevmart.com/vehicles/xiaomi-yu7/ — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “tariffs.json — tariff schedule and producer-specific countervailing-duty rates (data file; updated 2026-09-15)” — repository file src/data/tariffs.json — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “market-master.json — standard duties, VAT/GST rates, and registration fees by market (data file; updated 2026-09-15)” — repository file src/data/market-master.json — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “Landed Cost Methodology — the formula, fixed-cost benchmarks, and assumptions behind every landed-cost number” — https://chinaevmart.com/docs/landed-cost-methodology/ — accessed 2026-09-19.
China EV Mart — “Why the Sticker Price Is Never the Landed Price: The Complete Import Cost Stack” — https://chinaevmart.com/blog/sticker-vs-landed-price/ — accessed 2026-09-19.