HiPhi Z History
A five-door electric shooting brake with a 4,000-LED 'Star Ring' door display and a 120 kWh battery — HiPhi's second production model.
Photo: “2023 HiPhi Z (front).jpg” by User 3204 / Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
History
Presented as a concept in November 2021 and officially launched at the 2022 Chengdu Motor Show, the HiPhi Z entered customer deliveries in 2023. It occupied the E-segment executive-car space as a design-first shooting brake rather than a conventional sedan or SUV.
The Z's signature feature was its 'Star Ring' intelligent display: 4,000 individually addressable LEDs embedded in each door sill capable of animating patterns, messages, and ambient lighting — a party trick that embodied HiPhi's philosophy of treating the car as a platform for programmable expression. A robotic-arm-mounted interior touchscreen automatically rotated toward the active driver, and the cabin offered optional five-seat or four-seat limousine layouts.
Mechanically, the Z used a 120 kWh battery pack with a dual-motor AWD system producing 672 hp and CLTC range of up to 705 km in the five-seat configuration. Production ran at the Dongfeng Yueda Kia facility in Yancheng from December 2022 until the February 2024 suspension.
Generations
First (and only) generation · HiPhi Z
Photo: “2023 HiPhi Z (front).jpg” by User 3204 / Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
A five-door electric shooting brake launched at the 2022 Chengdu Motor Show with deliveries from 2023, defined by its 4,000-LED 'Star Ring' door displays. A 120 kWh battery fed a 672 hp dual-motor AWD system for up to 705 km CLTC range; built at Yancheng until the February 2024 suspension.
2023 Photo: “2023 HiPhi Z (front).jpg” by User 3204 / Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Body styles
- 5-door shooting brake
Notable special editions & performance variants
HiPhi A
A tri-motor (front single + rear dual), 1,287-hp hypercar variant of the Z developed with China's WeSail New Energy Automotive (incorporating Apollo hypercar design elements); debuted November 15, 2023 and shown at the Guangzhou Auto Show with a carbon-fiber body and 800-volt platform. Limited-series deliveries were scheduled for the first quarter of 2025 but never began — HiPhi halted production in February 2024 before any customer cars were delivered.
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