LEVC L380 Review 2025

Car manufacturers have long sought associations — however tenuous — with aircraft for marketing purposes. Many brands whose logos incorporate wings into their designs do so to link them with flying, while other companies have drawn performance comparisons between their quickest models and jet-powered fighters. Here an altogether different connection's being referenced for this fueselage-like MPV — witness the enormity of the LEVC L380.

Regular airport gate hang-abouters might twig the connection quicker than others. This electric people carrier, with its aerodynamically honed fuselage, pays homage to the gargantuan Airbus A380 airliner. Not that LEVC’s road-going tribute can match the superjumbo’s 853-passenger capacity, of course, but it will be sold with up to eight seats across four rows. Yes, four — not the trifling three of its rivals.

Not that true alternatives to this 5316mm long, aircraft-inspired MPV really exist on the UK market. Currently closest is the Mercedes EQV at 5140mm long with space inside for seven seats including two individual captain’s chairs for the second row. You can have similar middle-row seats in the 4962mm Volkswagen ID.Buzz but its third row can only accommodate two passengers, meaning you need to go for a three-seater bench instead for ferrying seven about.

As there’s still a while to pass before the car reaches these shores, many specifications details and measurements are still to be formalised, so we’re basing these provisional details on what’s available in its Chinese home market where it’s sold as the Geely Galaxy Wing L380.

You may have heard of Geely before even though it doesn’t sell cars here under its own name. As well as co-owning Smart with Mercedes, it’s the powerhouse behind Lotus, Polestar, Volvo and — more pertinently here — LEVC, manufacturers of the latest incarnation of the purpose design ‘London-style’ taxi cab and its VN5 commercial vehicle spin-off. It’s under the LEVC brand that we expect the L380 to be sold in the UK.

It will be the L380’s cavernous cabin that will primarily attracts customers, whether they’re VIP shuttle operators or large families bored of seven-seater SUVs’ lack of interior flexibility. By comparison the L380’s first three rows are all electrically adjustable, heated and ventilated recliners, with those aft of the front pair also featuring first class-style extending leg rests. The fourth row is formed by a two-seater bench that can be pivoted backwards to use as an outdoor picnic seat with the massive tailgate providing shelter.

Access to the rearmost seats is via electrically operated sliding side doors in-line with the second-row chairs. These can be slid back and forth at the touch of a button to get to the third and fourth tier seating, while those sufficiently slender of lower limb can negotiate the 200mm gap between in the central aisle. Electrically lowered side steps are available to make entry that bit easier for the less mobile.

Floor-mounted tracks also allow the third-row chairs to be positioned at will or removed altogether, while L380s with the fourth-row bench will find it can also be taken out of the car or simply folded into the floor. In six-seater guise, using the first three rows of seats, the LEVC has a boot area of 1100 litres — and that’s only the volume up to the level of the windows.

Fixtures and fittings will be high-end with upholstery options including ultra-soft aniline leather while instead of thick carpeting beneath your feet you could specify hardwood flooring for more of a yachting vibe. 

Several levels of specification could be offered — unless LEVC decides to go with a single trim that encompasses the majority of the bells and whistles — with a roster of equipment including multi-zone automatic climate control, multimedia touchscreens on the back of the front seats, intelligent voice control functions for the front six seats, a 2.18 square-metre glazed roof with 10 stages of electrically controlled opacity and even an on-board passenger health monitor.

From the cockpit the driver keeps tabs on key metrics via 10.25-inch screen which is supplemented with a large, augmented reality head-up display projecting information onto the inside of the windscreen. In the centre of the dash is a 15.4-inch multimedia touchscreen to access an array of functions, including playing music through the 14-speaker Yamaha sound system.

In true MPV fashion there’s a warren of storage cubbies and fold-down tables throughout the interior, 11 airbags as part of what’s expected to be a five-star Euro NCAP-scoring car, plus safety enhancing LED headlights with automatic adaptive main beam, a 360-degree parking camera package, optional four-wheel drive and a ‘binocular’ front camera system that monitors traffic and the road surface to constantly adjust the air suspension to deliver the desired level of ride quality firmness.

Four electric drive options for the LEVC L380 are sold in China starting with a 268PS rear-wheel drive version fed by a 100kWh battery. That same motor can also be paired with a 140kWh battery for a longer range. 

A second, front-mounted motor providing four-wheel drive and a 536PS output has a 116kWh battery installed. So far this is the only version that LEVC specifically mentions in relation to the UK, citing 686Nm of torque and a 0-62mph time of just 5.5 seconds. Its driving range is provisionally quoted at 329 miles. The Chinese market is also offered a larger 140kWh battery pack for that dual-motor set-up.

Exact specification levels and prices for the LEVC are expected to be revealed towards the end of 2025 or early 2026 when order books should open. Customer deliveries are likely to commence before summer 2026. Expect pricing to start in the region of £80,000 but it could easily exceed six digits.

Keep this page bookmarked for further news on this important new range and to read our forthcoming full and comprehensive LEVC L380 review in the months ahead.