ChinaLi Auto drove the refreshed i6 for 811.4 km on one charge in a livestreamed test around Lake Taihu, 4% beyond the 780 km CLTC rating of the rear-drive version. Li Auto says the car was still moving when the battery’s state of charge reached 0%, so the figure is not a hard limit.
How the test was run
The drive took about 18 hours around Lake Taihu in the Yangtze Delta, at 13-20 °C. The car carried four occupants, their luggage and an extra 50 kg of gear, and the air conditioning stayed on throughout, with the front and rear zones set to 24 °C. Average consumption was 11.8 kWh/100km.
The route was entirely urban, on roads with 40-80 km/h limits. Those conditions favour range, so the result says little about motorway driving. CarNewsChina notes that real-world range would be lower, especially on the motorway or in the cold.
Consumption and distance also agree with the battery size. 11.8 kWh/100km over 811.4 km comes to about 96 kWh, which is the full capacity of the pack, so the car had used essentially all of it.
The battery behind the number
The test car used Li Auto’s new 96 kWh Lianshan pack. Li Auto designed it in house, buys the cells from CALB and Sunwoda and assembles the pack itself, which moves the i6 away from CATL. The outgoing i6 had an 87.3 kWh pack and a 720 km CLTC rating, so the new rear-drive car adds about 10% in capacity and 60 km in rated range.
The 2026 model year went on sale in China on 28 October at 249,800 yuan (~$37,100), with a limited-time introductory price of 239,800 yuan (~$35,600). CarNewsChina lists the all-wheel-drive version at 710 km CLTC. A European version of the car, sold as the Li 6, is due in Norway and the Netherlands next year.
