The Leapmotor C10 is offered in a total of 7 models. Among them, 4 pure electric models are priced between 128,800 and 168,800 yuan, and 3 extended-range models are priced between 135,800 and 165,800 yuan. The pure electric version of the Leapmotor C10 has a maximum battery capacity of 69.9 kWh and a CLTC range of up to 530 km; the extended-range version has a maximum battery capacity of 28.4 kWh, a maximum CLTC pure electric range of up to 210 km, and a maximum CLTC combined range of up to 1,190 km.
The Leapmotor C10 is positioned as the "young people's more ideal home." As the first global strategic model under Leapmotor's LEAP 3.0 technology architecture, the new car will begin sales in global markets in the second half of the year. The Leapmotor C10 is equipped with the Qualcomm 8295 smart cockpit chip, as well as industry-leading intelligent driving hardware including a 128-thread lidar and NVIDIA Orin-X intelligent driving chip, enabling high-level intelligent driving functions such as NAC and NAP. At the launch event, Zhu Jiangming, founder and chairman of Leapmotor, said that the launch of the Leapmotor C10 will establish a value benchmark for global products in the 150,000-yuan class.
It is reported that since pre-sales began in January this year, the Leapmotor C10 has accumulated more than 45,000 orders; before launch, more than 3,000 commercial vehicles had been delivered to Leapmotor stores across the country, with delivery upon launch.
As the "young people's more ideal home," the Leapmotor C10, on the one hand, brings together cutting-edge industry technologies to give young families a better vehicle experience; on the other hand, it comprehensively refines the interior and exterior details of the new car to meet the vehicle needs of every family member. This time, the Leapmotor C10 competes with "newness" and also with "heart," benchmarked beyond its class against models priced between 300,000 and 400,000 yuan in intelligence, comfort, and safety.
Intelligence: Get an 8295 smart cockpit experience for 150,000, and own lidar for just over 160,000
As the first global strategic model under the LEAP 3.0 technology architecture, the Leapmotor C10 is equipped with the industry's only "Four-Leaf Clover" centrally integrated electronic and electrical architecture, is among the first to carry the Qualcomm SA8295P flagship smart cockpit chip, and has the only high-level driver assistance system in its class using Orin-X + lidar hardware, making it a truly software-defined vehicle.
The Leapmotor C10 is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon's fourth-generation cockpit platform. Its 8295 chip uses a 5nm process, with NPU computing power reaching 30 TOPS, 7.5 times that of the current mainstream 8155P; the sixth-generation Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU computing power reaches 200K DMIPS, with the capability of the main computing units improved by more than 50% compared with the 8155; Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU computing power reaches 3000 GFLOPS, a 300% improvement over the 8155.
At the development level, while competitors merely use the 8295 chip in the cockpit, Leapmotor has achieved extreme utilization of the 8295 chip. In the C10, Leapmotor uses the 8295 chip to pioneer cockpit-driving integration, integrating multiple functions such as audio DSP, parking, and 360 surround view, achieving efficient coordination of various vehicle functions and further reducing the risk of failure.
The Leapmotor C10 adopts a golden combination of a 10.25-inch high-definition instrument panel + a 14.6-inch central control screen. Among them, the 14.6-inch central control screen has a resolution of 2560*1440, reaching 2.5K high-definition level. The bezel adopts a full-lamination process, with the narrowest black edge only 7.2mm; it uses Oxide technology and has core advantages such as low power consumption, low frame rate, and high transmittance.
At the same time, thanks to the supercomputing capability of the "Four-Leaf Clover" centrally integrated electronic and electrical architecture, the Leapmotor C10 is the industry's first model capable of seamless OTA upgrades for both cockpit and intelligent driving. Seamless OTA requires no dedicated waiting for download by the owner. As long as the owner agrees to upgrade the vehicle, whether parked or driving, the next time the vehicle is started it will be in the newly upgraded state, truly achieving "second-level updates."
In terms of intelligent driving assistance, the Leapmotor C10 is equipped with 30 high-precision perception hardware units integrated with a 128-thread lidar, and in terms of hardware capability has L3-level intelligent driving assistance capability; it can realize 25 intelligent driving assistance functions including NAP highway intelligent navigation assist and NAC navigation-assisted cruise.
Among them, the pioneering NAC navigation-assisted cruise function can combine with navigation maps and, based on information such as traffic light signals, zebra crossing recognition, road direction recognition, and speed limit recognition, achieve adaptive start-stop, turning and U-turns, and intelligent speed limiting, greatly improving the vehicle's adaptive driver assistance capability at intersections and curves and freeing the driver's feet.
Comfort: 66.8% ultra-high space utilization rate, and it can even become a 2.7-meter big bed room
In terms of comfort experience, the Leapmotor C10 has a length of 4,739mm and a wheelbase of 2,825mm, reaching the standard of a mid-size SUV. The effective interior space is 1,888mm, with a "space utilization rate" of 66.8%, and its space practicality is comparable to luxury brand models.
Thanks to the ultra-high space utilization rate, the Leapmotor C10 has class-leading rear passenger space—maximum legroom reaches 1,050mm, maximum headroom reaches 1,015mm, the second-row seat cushion length reaches 514mm, and the rear seatback is adjustable in two positions of 27°/32°, creating a class-transcending luxury large two-bedroom space for the whole vehicle.
To ensure the comfort of front-row occupants, the Leapmotor C10 adopts 3D ergonomic seats, with special optimization design at areas prone to strain such as the shoulders, neck, and lumbar spine. The seat filling uses the latest bio-based foam, 3D ventilation pads, and other 7-layer comfort materials, combined with seat ventilation & heating functions, providing a first-class cabin-like driving and riding experience.
To improve product user experience, the only method is continuous refinement and verification. To create the most comfortable cockpit in its class, Leapmotor invited user experience officers to conduct more than 40 rounds and over 10,000 person-times of seat evaluation on the C10 cockpit, all to achieve the most fitting body contour and comfort comparable to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
The Leapmotor C10 brings a class-rare "versatile space," offering young families diverse travel scenarios—the front seatbacks can recline up to 180°, instantly turning into a large sofa lounge chair nearly 1.8 meters long longitudinally; with both front and rear seats fully folded, an air mattress can create a camping double bed room over 2.7 meters long.
The Leapmotor C10 has class-leading trunk loading space, capable of holding 7 20-inch suitcases at the same time. The rear seatbacks support 4/6 split folding, and when connected with the trunk can expand to 835L, capable of holding up to 15 20-inch suitcases, meeting the luggage placement needs of the whole family.
Based on the travel demand scenarios of young family users, the Leapmotor C10 pioneered the design of a rear central armrest parent-child storage platform, providing a "baby dining table" for placing items such as a 99.1mm large cup holder and suction-cup bowls, allowing commonly used items such as thermos cups and complementary food bowls to be properly stored, saying goodbye to rushing around when traveling with children.
Based on the travel demand scenarios of family users, the Leapmotor C10 has as many as 26 storage spaces throughout the vehicle, including 5 cup holders, giving every family member their own dedicated cup holder.
To further improve chassis comfort, the Leapmotor C10 adopts a five-link suspension and further optimizes tuning, improving key performance data such as front-rear pitch control, left-right sway, and vertical bobbing. In daily use during starts and braking, vehicle body movement will be less; when turning, roll suppression will be better; when passing over road bumps and potholes, suspension vibration filtering is more thorough, and after passing, the additional vertical movement of the vehicle is also greatly reduced.
In terms of NVH, the Leapmotor C10 has more than 100 quietness optimizations throughout the vehicle, adopts 40 acoustic package designs, fully covering the noise transmission path; 18 damping plates suppress vibration noise radiation. And through methods such as acoustic laminated front windshield, sound-absorbing cotton-covered ventilation frame, and wrapped NVH topology optimization, it creates a library-level quiet space for users.
Safety: Body stiffness reaches 42,500 N·m/°, and cockpit materials reach infant chewing grade
Adhering to the safety concept of "born global, looking at the world," the Leapmotor C10 is designed in terms of active and passive safety according to C-NCAP and E-NCAP China-Europe dual five-star safety standards, bringing global users consistent safety protection beyond five stars.
Thanks to the support of CTC 2.0 technology, the Leapmotor C10 adopts an integrated frame structure design, with body-in-white torsional stiffness as high as 42,500 N·m/°. The front and rear door anti-collision beams, B-pillar reinforcement plates, and seat crossmembers use nuclear submarine-grade 2000MPa hot-formed steel. The proportion of high-performance materials including aluminum alloy used in the entire vehicle is as high as 73.6%. Based on this, the Leapmotor C10 has won the 2023 China Top Ten Body award and the Best Body Structure Individual Award.
In addition to active and passive safety, users' health and safety are also a focus of the Leapmotor C10. The mother-and-baby-grade healthy and environmentally friendly cockpit uses infant chewing-grade silicone material for seat fabric and has obtained international OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 environmental certification, featuring non-toxicity, antibacterial properties, skin friendliness, flame retardancy, wear resistance and durability, and long-lasting stain resistance and easy care. At the same time, the cockpit uses multiple healthy and environmentally friendly materials, new environmentally friendly processes, and is equipped with an AQS air quality management system, providing further protection for occupants' health while using the vehicle.
In terms of appearance, the Leapmotor C10 continues Leapmotor's family technological natural aesthetics design language, incorporating more parallel lines to highlight a "sense of power," creating a stable, reliable, and safe visual impression, and emphasizing the design concept of protecting family. At present, the C10 has won the 2023 International CMF Design Award and the 2024 French Design Award (FDA) Gold Award.
It is worth mentioning that the Leapmotor C10's haute couture special color: Glazed Green. The designer's inspiration comes from the vibrant primeval forest, full of brilliant texture and layering, with a green tone as the foundation and hidden golden and yellow polyphonic notes. Different light throughout the four seasons can give the paint different colors. The beauty of glazed transformation accompanies the owner through different seasons and different journeys.
"When choosing a car, look at Leapmotor; value has a reference." Over the past year, relying on full-domain in-house research and development, Leapmotor has established a new value benchmark in the 150,000-200,000 yuan mass-market new energy market. And at a time when the automobile price war is raging, the launch of the Leapmotor C10 has brought a全新的 value standard to the auto market—for 150,000, consumers can have an 8295 intelligent experience, luxury-car-level comfort, and safety assurance; for just over 160,000, they can unexpectedly have a high-level intelligent driving experience with lidar + Orin-X intelligent driving chip. Technological development should not only be something people look up to. By buying a more comfortable, more intelligent, and safer family SUV at a more affordable price, the "young people's more ideal home," the Leapmotor C10, is worth your experience.
