Vehicle
Li Auto L9
The six-seat flagship, and the car that moved the range extender to a 1.5 turbocharged engine on a new platform while keeping the same principle: the engine turns a generator and the wheels are driven electrically at all times. That principle is the thing to hold onto, because the L9 carries a great deal of equipment that can produce symptoms which look powertrain-related and are not — air suspension with its own ride-height faults, rear-axle steering, and an assistance stack with lidar whose calibration is required after windscreen or bumper work. Establishing whether a complaint is on the electrical side or the genset side is the first useful split, and the two rarely interact in the way a parallel hybrid's would.
Generations
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First generation 2022–present
1.5 turbo range extender on a new platform; air suspension, rear steering and lidar add faults that mimic powertrain ones.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Li Auto Whale
- Engines
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- 1.5 turbo range extender — L2E15M · plug-in hybrid · generator only, 44.5 kWh pack
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction
- Drivetrain
- Four-wheel drive
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