Li Auto's release prices the 2026 i6 at RMB 249,800, and Xinhua reports a 239,800 yuan introductory price
Li Auto's English release on 28 October prices the 2026 i6 at RMB 249,800 and says deliveries start within a week. Xinhua and CnEVPost also report a 239,800 yuan introductory price through 30 November.
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Li Auto's English press release, dated 28 October 2026, says the company launched the 2026 Li i6 that day. The release calls it a five-seat SUV priced at RMB 249,800 for its standard configuration, with deliveries to commence within a week. It does not print an introductory price, a battery capacity, or a range figure.
Xinhua, in a story dated 29 October 2026, says the launch was on 28 October, with a national retail price of 249,800 yuan and a first-sale price of 239,800 yuan. It says test drives, orders, and deliveries opened from that day. It says buyers who order before 30 November 2026 can choose, at no extra charge, one of three paints it prices at 6,000 yuan. The English release does not mention that paint offer.
CnEVPost, on 28 October 2026, also prints a retail price of 249,800 yuan, which it converts to $37,190, and says that figure matches the 2025 model. It says customers who purchase on or before 30 November can receive introductory benefits that bring the price to 239,800 yuan. It says Li Auto has opened orders for cars with short delivery times, with deliveries possible in as little as one to two weeks. The English release's "within a week" and CnEVPost's "one to two weeks" are the two wordings. This story does not collapse them. The $37,190 figure is CnEVPost's conversion, not a line in the English release.
On the battery, Xinhua says the 2026 i6 comes standard with Li Auto's in-house Lianshan 5C pack, at 96 kilowatt-hours. It says the rear-drive CLTC range rises from 720 kilometres to 780 kilometres, and the all-wheel-drive CLTC range from 660 kilometres to 710 kilometres. CnEVPost prints the same two new ratings, 780 kilometres for rear-wheel drive and 710 kilometres for all-wheel drive, and says capacity rises to 96 kilowatt-hours from 87.3 kilowatt-hours on the 2025 model. CnEVPost also says Li Auto said the model can add about 500 kilometres of range in 10 minutes of charging. That 10-minute line is CnEVPost's account. It is not in the English release this desk read, and it is not in the Xinhua story. A separate fast-charge claim on this desk is BMW's U.S. iX5 figure.
Xinhua says a rear-drive range livestream, which it describes as simulating a real trip, covered 811.4 kilometres, and it calls that a 104 percent achievement rate against the rating. This desk's earlier story, Li Auto's urban range test of the 2026 i6, used CarNewsChina's account of an 811 kilometre run and a 780 kilometre CLTC rating. The 811.4 kilometre figure and the 104 percent rate here are Xinhua's. Dividing 811.4 by 780 is about 1.04. That arithmetic is this desk's, and it lines up with the rate Xinhua prints. It is not a second test.
Xinhua says the Mach M100 assisted-driving chip is standard. CnEVPost says that chip replaces the Nvidia Thor-U used on the 2025 model, and that each M100 is rated at 1,280 TOPS, against 700 TOPS for the Thor-U. Both Xinhua and CnEVPost describe a dual-M100 option at 20,000 yuan and 2,560 TOPS, with three solid-state lidar units. Xinhua says that option also includes powered front doors. CnEVPost says the package adds two side-facing lidar units and one rear-facing unit to a standard forward-facing lidar, along with sensor-activated power front doors. The sensor layout is each outlet's wording. This story does not merge the two descriptions past the three units and the 2,560 TOPS both print.
Xinhua prices an all-wheel-drive option at 20,000 yuan and says that version has 400 kilowatts of total power and a 0-to-100 km/h time of 4.8 seconds. Those figures are Xinhua's. The English release does not include them. On the cabin, Xinhua says a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8797 chip and a 29-inch 6K screen are standard, and that a 21-inch 4K rear screen is optional at 10,000 yuan. CnEVPost says the cockpit chip moves from a Snapdragon 8295P to the 8797, and that two front 15.7-inch displays are replaced by the 29-inch screen. Xinhua also says dual-chamber air suspension, a powered front trunk, and front zero-gravity seats with 18-point massage are standard. CnEVPost says the front zero-gravity seats include 16-way adjustment and 18-point massage.
CnEVPost says the i6 delivered 7,379 vehicles in September 2026, down 56.54 percent from the previous month, and 160,221 in the first nine months of 2026. It says the September count was 23.19 percent of the company's deliveries that month. Xinhua says sales in the year since launch were nearly 190,000. Those are different windows. Adding the monthly cells CnEVPost prints, from September 2025 through September 2026, gives 189,192. That addition is this desk's, from CnEVPost's table, which the outlet attributes to company reports and the China Passenger Car Association. It sits beside Xinhua's "nearly 190,000." This desk did not audit either count against a filing.
CnEVPost says the model, named the Li 6 in Europe, is scheduled to launch and begin deliveries in Norway and the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2027, then move to other European countries. That European timing is CnEVPost's account of the company's plan. It is not in the English launch release this desk read.
The prices and the range ratings above are what those three sources printed. They are not a comparison that says this car is the one to buy. Another China price story on the Cars desk is the third-generation Qin Plus DM-i.