On August 11, LEAPMOTOR (09863) moved its new car launch to Hangzhou's Xizi Covered Bridge, a city landmark buzzing with youthful lifestyles. Instead of sticking to traditional venues, the brand brought its latest product directly into the lives of young consumers, engaging face-to-face with them. With a live performance by Asi of a special track, "Love the A05," the event marked the debut of the A05, the second global model on the brand's new A-platform, under the theme "Born to Understand You, With Me It's All Smart."

Positioned as a "smart, agile premium sedan," the LEAPMOTOR A05 boasts a four-dimensional product strength of "good looks, great drive, fun experience, and full reassurance." It offers a comprehensive upgrade across design, intelligence, handling, space, and safety. By using a "big materials for small car" strategy, LEAPMOTOR delivers higher value for money, making intelligent, joyful driving accessible to young and first-time buyers, creating a standout product suited for the intelligent era. The new model offers five variants with 405km and 510km ranges, priced between ¥63,900 and ¥90,900. Additionally, from now until September 30, 2026, at 24:00, LEAPMOTOR is offering limited-time launch benefits valued up to ¥10,680, including selection gifts, color gifts, repurchase rewards, charging perks, financial incentives, data plans, and warranty packages, along with two-year zero-interest loans and four lifetime free warranties. On launch day, exclusive gifts are available, setting a new value benchmark for electric sedans under ¥100,000.

New Sedan Joins the Dual-A Excellence Lineup, a Formidable Player in the Under-¥100,000 EV Segment

The LEAPMOTOR A-series is the brand's premium lineup designed for global mainstream markets. Following the successful SUV A10, the A-platform now welcomes its second global model, the A05, expanding the product range and nearing its global debut. The A05, with its more agile sedan form, targets young female users seeking design, easy handling, parking simplicity, intelligence, and quality. Sharing the A-platform's core tech genes, the two models cater to different lifestyles, solidifying LEAPMOTOR's status as the top choice for premium cars under ¥100,000.

"Born to Understand You" is the A05's promise to young users. It grasps what young people expect in their first car—design, smarts, quality, and emotional value—knowing exactly what they want. "With Me It's All Smart" encapsulates the A05's product strengths, meaning whether commuting, dating, traveling, or facing life's key moments, the A05 stays alongside, turning every departure into a stroke of luck and every arrival into a smooth moment.

Good Looks: Tech-Natural Aesthetics 2.0, a Youthful Expression of Design Priority

The LEAPMOTOR A05 continues the A-series family design language, expressing a youthful lifestyle with global aesthetics, embedding "purity, uplift, and joy" into every detail. With dimensions of 4200mm x 1800mm x 1560mm and a 2605mm wheelbase, it balances space, safety, and agility through optimized short front overhangs. Smooth surfaces meet crisp lines, complemented by a floating roof and wide rear, creating a relaxed, trendy silhouette. The signature three-section "Hehe/Haha" mood headlights stand out, paired with 16-inch sport wheels and genuine front-side air ducts, exuding a youthful, sporty vibe for a smart urban sedan. The A05 comes in six globally inspired colors—Morgan Pink, Rime White, Seaweed Green, Berry Blue, Tundra Gray, and Pine Gray—drawn from natural landscapes, letting body color become a medium for young users to express personality and mood. Additionally, LEAPMOTOR collaborated with international fashion design master and BVLGARI chief design consultant MATTEO MENOTTO to create a unique warp-and-weft luxury pattern for the A05, a distinctive Chinese design symbol for the global market, weaving millennia-old oriental aesthetics into the car's wrap and decals as a flowing fashion language for the world.

Inside, the cabin features a wrap-around design with 2.6m² of soft trim, offering three nature-inspired interior themes: Peach Pink, Oatmeal Gray, and Blackcurrant. A special A05s version is also available, inspired by classic vinyl records, with a bold pink-and-black contrasting exterior and 17-inch iridescent dual-tone wheels. Its interior uses suede-like mixed materials, incorporating exclusive details like a "string-rhythm music cabin," embodying three "S" meanings—Special, Stylish, Sonder—meaning "specially for you," offering A05 fans another choice.

Great Drive: LiDAR + Qualcomm 8650 + 510km Range, Agile and Easy to Park

Young people's freedom shouldn't be limited by range. The A05 is equipped with a 53kWh battery pack, achieving a CLTC combined range of 510km, comfortably covering daily commutes and short trips. With 2.5C super fast charging, peak power hits 133kW, charging from 30% to 80% in 16 minutes, adding over 15km per minute—enough for about 250km in the time it takes to drink a coffee. The car's energy consumption is just 10.6kWh per 100km, ensuring stable, reliable range. Power comes from a class-exclusive seven-in-one oil-cooled electric drive, offering better heat dissipation and stability than traditional water-cooled systems, reaching a top speed of 160km/h and supporting stable 150km/h cruising, with no noticeable power fade under sustained high-speed driving, climbing, or aggressive maneuvers.

Urban handling is fully youthful and lightweight, with a 4.9-meter ultra-small turning radius, ideal for narrow roads, old neighborhoods, and tight alleys. Paired with an LMC integrated motion control system, ZF Onebox intelligent braking, and precise steering algorithms, the car handles smoothly and delicately—easy for beginners, satisfying for pros. In terms of smart driving, the LEAPMOTOR A05 packs premium hardware, including a high-precision LiDAR and Qualcomm 8650 high-compute chip, enabling long-range wide-area perception and 200TOPS equivalent computing power for faster decision-making. This hardware supports class-exclusive parking-space-to-parking-space full-scenario assisted driving, completing a seamless loop from exiting a garage, driving, passing gates, cruising, to automatic parking. Additionally, the A05 features valet parking (HPA), parking assist (APA), custom parking, phone parking assist, straight-in/out, and 120-meter reverse tracking, covering high-frequency urban scenarios like extremely tight spots, dead-end roads, and underground garages, truly making "parking trouble" a thing of the past. The A05 also boasts 43 driver assistance functions and the most comprehensive auxiliary imaging in its class, including narrow road, blind spot, startup, slope, 360-degree surround view, and transparent chassis views, making travel easier, safer, and more carefree for young users.

Fun Experience: 88.4% Space Efficiency + Versatile Seat Modes + Smart Cabin, Filling Every Journey with Joy

Thanks to CTC battery-chassis integration, a highly integrated front compartment, and offset sill structure design, the LEAPMOTOR A05 achieves a class-leading 88.4% space efficiency, freeing up generous cabin space within a compact body. With the best-in-class shoulder width and 965mm rear headroom, the car offers a spacious, airy ride suitable for daily commutes, family outings, and long trips. The A05 supports multiple seat modes—surfboard mode, nap reclining mode, bed mode, pet & moving mode, and privacy storage mode. The second-row seat cushion can flip up 60°, releasing up to 578mm of extended space; a 32L hidden storage area under the cushion provides 34 storage spaces in total for organized belongings. The trunk features a large, two-tier expandable structure with a base volume of 474L, expandable to 1308L when the rear seats are folded, plus an industry-first 91L washable lower storage compartment that can withstand high-pressure washing and separate wet/dry items, easily storing camping gear, fishing equipment, fresh produce, or outdoor dirty gear, keeping the cabin clean.

The smart cabin is powered by a class-exclusive Qualcomm 8295 flagship chip, paired with an 8.8-inch instrument cluster and a 14.6-inch 2.5K ultra-clear central screen. The new Leapmotor OS integrates the Tongyi Qianwen AI large model, supporting multimodal interaction, AI Agent, dialect recognition, child conversations, and full-scene voice control, making interactions smoother and smarter. With a 12-speaker 7.1-channel audio system, microphone-free karaoke, self-developed AI call noise reduction, and a dual-ecosystem universal connectivity system, the cabin's entertainment and convenience experience is fully elevated.

Full Reassurance: All-Domain Active Safety + High-Strength Cage Body + CTC 2.0 Plus, Protecting Every Departure

Safety is the foundational trait of the LEAPMOTOR A05. Developed to global standards covering nearly 40 countries and regions, it has undergone millions of kilometers of extreme road testing and validation in extreme cold and heat, building a comprehensive safety shield covering active safety, passive safety, three-electric safety, and cabin health. On the active safety front, the A05 features a class-exclusive full-speed-range all-direction AEB, operating from 4 to 130km/h, capable of effective braking at 120km/h. It also includes a unique AES emergency steering assist and class-exclusive front and rear MAI unintended acceleration mitigation, along with 18 active safety features, complemented by sentry mode and a driving recorder, creating a dense protective network for driving.

For passive safety, it uses a class-exclusive "9 cross-members, 7 longitudinal beams, 4 strong rings" cage body, with 74% high-strength steel, and critical cabin areas featuring 2000MPa aerospace-grade hot-formed steel. The roof can withstand over 3.1 times the vehicle's weight, paired with the largest 60L driver airbag in its class, fortifying the passenger cabin's physical barrier. Three-electric safety relies on CTC 2.0 Plus battery-chassis integration, improving crash resistance by 30%, ensuring no fire or explosion for 48 hours after thermal runaway in extreme conditions. With AI BMS battery management, battery health warning accuracy reaches 99.8%, combining structural protection and intelligent monitoring to safeguard travel.

Born to Understand You, With Me It's All Smart: Making the Smart Premium Sedan a True 'Understanding' Companion for Youth

The LEAPMOTOR A05 isn't just about stuffing more features into a small car. It starts from the real urban lives of young women, recombining design, intelligence, handling, space, and safety. With a younger expression and more advanced product strength, it brings high-level intelligence, global aesthetics, and global standards into everyday city life. Every version is competitive and deadly in its segment, making it a must-see option for buyers under ¥100,000 and a key piece of LEAPMOTOR's push for million-unit annual sales this year. Standing at a new milestone as the first Chinese new energy startup to surpass 100,000 monthly sales, LEAPMOTOR will continue to drive smart EV experience accessibility through full-stack self-developed technology, adhering to a "higher value at the same price" approach, enabling more users to enjoy truly intelligent, safe, and high-quality travel at a reasonable cost.