Richard Edwards
Published 8 June 2026
In the market for a fleet of EVs? An Australian receiver is selling exactly that, in one hit, and there is nothing legally stopping the cars turning up on New Zealand roads.
The receivers of failed Xpeng importer, True EV Distribution, are calling for expressions of interest in 197 new Xpeng G6 electric SUVs across the ditch. The catch is you have to buy the lot. There are 162 G6 RWD Long Range and 35 G6 RWD Standard Range, sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no cherry-picking individual cars. Colours run from sensible white, silver, black and grey through to a few in orange for the brave.
Why so many for sale?
The cars are up for grabs because the relationship between the distributor and Xpeng has broken down. TrueEV launched Xpeng in Australia in 2024, but earlier this year took the carmaker to the Federal Court in Australia, while Xpeng moved to bring its Australian and New Zealand operations in-house.
The 197 cars are the previous-generation G6, since superseded by the updated 2026 model that the new factory operation is importing. With no one on the Australian side wanting to carry them, a financier has appointed receivers to clear the stock.
Read more – 2026 Xpeng G6 Performance Review
The Kiwi angle
Here is where it gets interesting for interested Kiwi parties. They are right-hand drive, the G6 already sells in New Zealand, and there is no franchise law or import barrier that stops a Kiwi buyer bringing them over and complying them. New Zealand has always been a parallel-import-friendly market, and a job lot of nearly-new EVs at fire-sale money is exactly the kind of thing an enterprising dealer could pounce on.
It would not be the first time a Kiwi operator has scooped up an orphaned batch. When General Motors shelved Cadillac’s Australian launch in 2009, Hamilton’s Ebbett Group bought the entire inventory of Cadillac CTS sedans and spare parts, and sold them off here.
But there are a few things to weigh before you remortgage the house. They are pre-update cars, so you are buying last year’s model. “As is, where is” means exactly that. And with Xpeng now running its own factory-backed network here, complete with Auckland and Christchurch dealers, the question is how a parallel-imported batch would be supported on warranty and parts.
Still, 197 EVs going for whatever the market will bear is not the sort of opportunity that comes along every week. Expressions of interest close on 12 June.
