In Munich, the birthplace of automotive ambition, a Chinese electric vehicle maker named Xpeng stepped forward not as a visitor but as a settler, unveiling a compact SUV priced to challenge the market's most entrenched names. He Xiaopeng's appearance in Germany's automotive capital on Thursday was less a product launch than a declaration of intent — that the global electric vehicle order is being rewritten, and that Chinese manufacturers intend to hold the pen. The question now before European consumers and regulators alike is whether price and capability alone can displace the weight of herit