Li Auto Mega electric minivan targets urban families with updated maneuverability

There is a particular kind of electric minivan problem that no spec sheet solves: how do you keep a 5.3-meter vehicle honest around tight corners? Li Auto's updated Mega answers that question before it answers the more glamorous one about range. The headline figure is 710 km on a 108 kWh battery. The interesting engineering is what sits underneath that claim. To claw back efficiency, the design team removed the visible parking sensors that usually stud the bumpers and doors of modern EVs, replacing them with flush-mounted ultra-wideband radar modules. It is a small visual change with an aerodynamic reason: every protruding sensor adds a little turbulence, and on a tall, blunt-nosed minivan, little turbulences add up. The trade-off is that radar positioning data now depends on radio waves rather than the more intuitive ultrasonic feedback drivers have grown used to. In practice, the parking experience changes less than you would expect, but it is no longer the same system. The other quietly important number is the rear-wheel steering angle: seven degrees. That is not enough to make a Mega feel like a hatchback, but it is enough to shrink the turning circle meaningfully in the kind of narrow residential blocks and underground garages this vehicle is actually aimed at. Combined with the dual-motor layout, 554 horsepower in total, the Mega is technically a long family bus that can still thread a U-turn where geometry suggests it should not fit.