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SAIC-GM opened pre-sales on the Buick Electra L7 with two price lists at once, and most English coverage has quoted only one of them without saying which. The post-subsidy figures are ¥169,900, ¥186,900 and ¥206,900 for the three trims - about $25,190, $27,690 and $30,690. The pre-incentive list prices are ¥194,900, ¥211,900 and ¥231,900, roughly ¥25,000 higher across the board.
The L7 is a rear-drive electric sedan, the second model in Buick’s China-only Electra new-energy line after the plug-in hybrid Electra E7 SUV that went on sale in April. A single rear motor produces 378 hp, and SAIC-GM claims over 700 km of range on China’s CLTC cycle - a figure measured at lower average speeds than WLTP or EPA testing, so it will not translate directly into a Western rating once the car is homologated elsewhere. Fast charging is claimed to add 450 km in 10 minutes, though SAIC-GM has not said what state of charge that measurement starts from.
The car carries over the Electra family’s design language already established on the E7: a shield-style grille and a full-width light bar spanning the nose. It also continues SAIC-GM’s pattern of developing new-energy models on locally engineered platforms rather than importing Detroit architecture, the same approach behind the E7’s Xiao Yao platform.
Pre-sales are open now; SAIC-GM has not announced a formal on-sale date or published a full specification sheet. The L7 arrives as GM and SAIC extended their joint venture to 2047 and named Buick as one of the badges that will carry Chinese-built new-energy cars into export markets, starting with the Electra E7 from October 2026 to the Middle East, Africa, South America, Mexico and the Asia-Pacific. Whether the L7 follows onto that export list has not been said.
The Electra E7 is a mid-size plug-in hybrid SUV built by SAIC-GM in Wuhan on the Chinese Xiao Yao platform. A 32.6 kWh pack gives 235 km of electric CLTC range and 1,630 km combined, from ¥159,900 ($23,700). From October 2026 it becomes the first Chinese-built Buick sold for export.
