Trumpchi Empow

Trumpchi Empow

GAC Group

MarqueGAC Group
Production2021–present
PowerPetrol: / 125-130 kW (1.5 L turbo) / 195 kW (2.0 L turbo) / Hybrid: / 103 kW (2.0 L engine) / 134 kW (electric motor) / 175 kW (combined system output)
EnginePetrol: / 1.5 L 4A15J2 Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L 4B20J3 turbo I4 / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 2.0 L 4B20L1 I4

Among the 21 GAC Group entries in the MotorJury library, the Trumpchi Empow holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2021. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Trumpchi Empow properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Nissan Nissan Z — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Trumpchi Empow reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L 4A15J2 Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L 4B20J3 turbo I4 / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 2.0 L 4B20L1 I4; quoted output is Petrol: / 125-130 kW (1.5 L turbo) / 195 kW (2.0 L turbo) / Hybrid: / 103 kW (2.0 L engine) / 134 kW (electric motor) / 175 kW (combined system output); kerb weight is recorded at 1345-1500 kg (Empow) / 1500-1550 kg (Empow Hybrid); drive goes through 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / 8-speed Aisin Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / e-CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 93 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the GAC Group story

Within GAC Group's own catalogue the Trumpchi Empow sits alongside the Aion LX, the Aion UT, the GAC Motor Enverge (2018), the GAC Trumpchi GS 4 Coupe (2020). The record names the Trumpchi GA4 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to class = Compact car (C). Assembly is recorded at China: Yichang.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Trumpchi Empow was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Transmission7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / 8-speed Aisin Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / e-CVT
LayoutFront-engine, front-wheel-drive
Body style4-door sedan
Kerb weight1345-1500 kg (Empow) / 1500-1550 kg (Empow Hybrid)
Wheelbase2736 mm
AssemblyChina: Yichang
Designerclass = Compact car (C)
PredecessorTrumpchi GA4
Catalogue IDQ107557193

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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