Leapmotor has quietly done one of the more useful things in the Chinese car market: it has refreshed the B01 for the 2027 model year and put the new line-up on sale on 5 November without raising a single entry price. The six-version range still opens at 95,800 yuan for the 590 Shuxiang and tops out at 149,700 yuan for the 590 Executive, but the range figures have all moved up.
Photo: JustAnotherCarDesigner / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Illustrative: 2025 Leapmotor B01; the 2027 car keeps the same shape.
More kilometres for the same money
Where the 2025 car offered 550 and 650 km depending on the pack, the 2027 line-up is rated at 590 and 670 km on the CLTC cycle. The shorter-range cars cover the entry and mid trims, while the 670 km versions sit in the middle of the ladder at 109,800 yuan for the Yuexiang and 119,800 yuan for the lidar-equipped version. In a segment where rivals usually add range only on a new trim with a four-digit price jump, holding the ladder flat while extending every figure is the whole pitch.
Lidar under 120,000 yuan
The 590 lidar version lands at 113,800 yuan and the 670 lidar version at 119,800 yuan, which keeps Leapmotor's promise of putting laser-based driver assistance into the sub-120,000-yuan bracket. At those prices the B01 is fighting the BYD Qin Plus EV, the Wuling Bingo-family saloons and the XPeng MONA M03, and it is currently the only one of that group that sells a lidar car below 120,000 yuan. The Executive version at 149,700 yuan adds the comfort and soft-trim kit aimed at buyers who want a small car that does not feel small inside.
Photo: JustAnotherCarDesigner / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Illustrative: 2025 Leapmotor B01; the 2027 car keeps the same shape.
The B-series strategy in one car
The B01 sits below the B10 SUV in Leapmotor's B-series, the platform family that carries the company's 800V hardware and its in-house electronics, and it is the sedan half of the plan to keep monthly deliveries climbing past the competition. Leapmotor's approach has been consistent: hold prices, iterate hardware every year, and let the configurer do the marketing. The 2027 B01 is exactly that. None of the changes will make headlines on their own, but a buyer cross-shopping sub-150,000-yuan electric sedans in November now has a car with 670 km of range, lidar and a full assistance suite for under 120,000 yuan, and that combination did not exist at this price a year ago.
- On sale 5 November: six versions, 95,800-149,700 yuan
- CLTC range now 590 or 670 km, up from 550 and 650 km
- Lidar versions at 113,800 and 119,800 yuan
- 670 km Yuexiang at 109,800 yuan; 590 Executive flagship at 149,700 yuan
- Competes with BYD Qin Plus EV and XPeng MONA M03