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Vehicle plant · Guangdong, China

Guangzhou 广州

XPeng's broad vehicle-production base, with North and South Areas in Guangzhou's Huangpu district.

Registered models
GX · G9L · X9 · P7 · P7+ · G9 · G6 · G7 · MONA L03 EV and EREV [1, 2, 3]MONA L05 EV and EREV (pending)
Operating since
North Area: December 2022 South Area: May 2025 [4, 5]

Where it stands

Cars built · 2025 · XPulse calculation

≈267,000

Estimated from MIIT's final China production count plus exports, less Zhaoqing's output. Assumes all exports were built that year and all Zhaoqing output was XPeng. [6, 7, 8, 9]

What's ahead

  • Approved · Dec 2025

    More production in the South Area

    A new paint line and upgrades are approved to double annual body-parts capacity from 300,000 to 600,000 sets. The expansion plan also includes 300,000 battery packs a year. [10, 11]

How it got here

  1. The North Area begins vehicle production. [4]

  2. The South Area reaches mass production. [5]

  3. XPeng's millionth car comes off the line here. [12]

  4. A further South Area expansion is approved. [10]

Explore the evidence

Production figures
Models
GX · G9L · X9 · P7 · P7+ · G9 · G6 · G7 · MONA L03 EV and EREV · MONA L05 EV and EREV (pending) XPeng disclosures; MIIT register; MONA L05 filing
Operating since
December 2022 in the North Area; the South Area reached mass production in May 2025 20-F 2025; Huangpu District
Latest known output
About 267,000 cars in 2025 on MIIT's final figure, 226,000 on its preliminary one — XPulse's calculation, below MIIT dual credits 2025; MIIT notice, Apr 2026; CPCA; Zhaoqing statistics

By XPulse's calculation, Guangzhou built more of XPeng's cars in 2025 than Zhaoqing: about 267,000 on MIIT's final figure, or 226,000 on its preliminary one, against Zhaoqing's 182,016.

XPulse arithmetic

Two calculations, not a measurement. MIIT's count of cars built for China in 2025, plus the 45,014 CPCA counts as exported, less Zhaoqing's city total of 182,016, leaves about 267,000 for Guangzhou on MIIT's final figure (404,026) and about 226,000 on its April figure (362,797). Both assume Zhaoqing's total is all XPeng and every export was a car built that year. MIIT dual credits 2025; MIIT notice, Apr 2026; CPCA; Zhaoqing statistics

10,000 GX built by 1 July 2026, six weeks after its launch, against 7,023 delivered by 30 June. XPeng, 1 Jul 2026

Capacity: design, approvals and estimates

The North Area is approved to build 120,000 cars a year on three shifts. The South Area is registered for car bodies and parts, not finished cars — 300,000 sets a year, being doubled to 600,000 — though the evidence below says it finishes cars too.

The complete-vehicle plant, north of the Guanghe Expressway: the registered production address of every Guangzhou model.

DesignApprovedManagement's estimateLine rateObserved

  1. Original project100,000 body sets a yearGuangzhou environmental report 2023 · 27 Jul 2023
  2. Approved120,000 electric cars a year, on two shiftsThe body-parts line converted to build cars; no new line.Guangzhou approval 2023
  3. Approved120,000 cars and 60,000 body sets a year, on three shiftsWith range-extender parts — 72,000 sets a year of tanks and range extenders — and a fuel depot.North Area approval 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
  4. LineOne final-assembly line, designed for 30 cars an hourGuangzhou approval 2023
  5. Management's estimate200,000–300,000 cars a year on two shiftsSaid of each of XPeng's two plants, so of Guangzhou as a whole.Q3 2024 call
  6. Worked252 production days in 2025, on one complete-vehicle lineGuangdong disclosure · 12 Feb 2026
  7. Observed rhythmOne car every 120 seconds at final assemblySeen on a district tour that entered through the North Area's gate.Huangpu District
Recent developments

Guangzhou is growing on both fronts the records show. In the South Area, activity rose about ninefold through 2026, a second-stage expansion was approved in December 2025 and final-assembly hiring began in April; in XPeng's accounts, its Guangzhou plant leases grew from RMB1.0bn to RMB4.88bn by June.

  • XPeng's leases on Guangzhou plant buildings and land were recorded at RMB4.88bn when they began, each with an obligation to buy the property at construction cost when the lease ends. At the end of 2025 XPeng described one such lease, the North Area's from July 2022, recorded at RMB1.0bn. An accounting value, not cash spent in the half. Interim report 2026 · 28 Sep 2026; 20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026
  • Across the group, XPeng paid RMB1.56bn for property and equipment in the first half, against RMB1.38bn a year earlier, and had RMB1.63bn of plant and equipment contracted but not yet recognised — down from RMB1.82bn at the end of 2025 — mainly for the Guangzhou and Zhaoqing plants and the Wuhan base. Interim report 2026 · 28 Sep 2026
  • A die-casting park beside the South Area is approved: 60,000 tonnes of parts a year. Die-casting approval
  • The South Area's pollution permit is re-issued with the expansion's new paint lines. Pollution permits
  • XPeng advertises final-assembly jobs for 'Phase II' in the South Area. XPeng job listing
  • A second-stage expansion of the South Area is approved: a new paint line, and 600,000 body sets and 300,000 battery packs a year. Expansion approval 2025
South Area paint-shop emissions
00.511.522.5Nov 24Feb 25May 25Aug 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26Aug 26Oct 2024 · 0.00 tNov 2024 · 0.00 tDec 2024 · 0.00 tJan 2025 · 0.00 tFeb 2025 · 0.00 tMar 2025 · 0.00 tApr 2025 · 0.00 tMay 2025 · 0.00 tJun 2025 · 0.01 tJul 2025 · 0.10 tAug 2025 · 0.10 tSep 2025 · 0.10 tOct 2025 · 0.18 tNov 2025 · 0.10 tDec 2025 · 0.12 tJan 2026 · filed blankFeb 2026 · 0.23 tMar 2026 · 1.06 tApr 2026 · 1.01 tMay 2026 · 1.26 tJun 2026 · 1.73 tJul 2026 · 2.19 tAug 2026 · 2.17 t
Volatile organic compounds from the South Area's paint shop, tonnes a month, as filed under its pollution permit. An activity signal, not output: the figures look calculated rather than measured, differ from the permit's own quarterly reports, and all eight 2026 months were filed on 22–23 September 2026. January 2026 was filed blank. Pollution permits

XPulse reading

The South Area finishes cars, though it is registered for parts

  • XPeng's 2025 ESG report names a 'Guangzhou South District Plant' beside the North, and says new plants went into production in 2025.
  • Its parts permit of May 2026 draws a complete final-assembly flow — trim, chassis and battery marriage, two final lines, a rain test, inspection and finished-car handover — and lists eight assembly lines and a test track.
  • It worked 132 production days in 2025, and the district government reported its first phase in mass production from May 2025.
  • Its paint shop's emissions began in June 2025 and rose about ninefold through 2026 (below).
  • The GX is reported to share a line with ARIDGE's X3 flying car, whose assembly equipment appears only in the South Area's documents.

ESG report 2025; Pollution permits; Guangdong disclosure; Huangpu District; Media NetEase Auto

Full dated history

  1. Production

    The first right-hand-drive G9L comes off the line.

    Media Yiche

  2. Production

    He Xiaopeng: GX capacity rises 10% this month.

    Media IT Home

  3. Production

    10,000th GX, six weeks after its launch.

    XPeng, 1 Jul 2026

  4. Building

    XPeng's Guangzhou plant leases, with obligations to buy the property at construction cost, are recorded at RMB4.88bn — from one lease of RMB1.0bn, the North Area's, described at the end of 2025.

    Interim report 2026 · 28 Sep 2026; 20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026

  5. ApprovalsSouth Area

    A die-casting park beside the South Area is approved: 60,000 tonnes of parts a year, run by Guangzhou Zhipeng Manufacturing.

    Die-casting approval

  6. ProductionSouth Area

    The GX is reported to share a line with ARIDGE's X3 flying car.

    Media NetEase Auto

  7. Production

    The first mass-produced Robotaxi comes off a line in Guangzhou.

    XPeng release

  8. ApprovalsSouth Area

    The South Area's permit is re-issued to 2031, with the expansion's new paint lines; its drawing shows two final lines and finished-car handover.

    Pollution permits

  9. BuildingSouth Area

    XPeng advertises final-assembly jobs for 'Phase II' in the South Area.

    XPeng job listing

  10. Production

    100,000th P7+. A 16,000-tonne die-caster makes its rear floor in one piece.

    XPeng release; (2)

  11. BuildingSouth Area

    A contractor's share of the Phase II works — outside power, outdoor works, ducts — is 96% done at the year end; it asks for its sign-off in May 2026, and the owner wants the whole project signed off together.

    Kexin Development · 8 Jul 2026

  12. ApprovalsSouth Area

    A second-stage expansion is approved: a new paint line, 600,000 body sets and 300,000 battery packs a year, 5,000 staff, RMB1.3bn over 12 months.

    Expansion approval 2025

  13. ApprovalsSouth Area

    The expansion's environmental report says the existing Phase II is 'not yet formally in operation'.

    Expansion report 2025

  14. Production

    XPeng's 1,000,000th car comes off the line here.

    XPeng release · 1 Dec 2025

  15. Production

    10,000th new P7 — the fastest XPeng model to reach 40 an hour on a new line.

    XPeng release · 1 Oct 2025

  16. BuildingSouth Area

    The Guangzhou government says the finished Phase II will make 300,000 sets of parts and 100,000 hybrid cars a year.

    Guangzhou government

  17. ProductionSouth Area

    The South Area's paint shop files its first emissions, after nothing every month since October 2024. An insider later says it was building the new P7: about 800 that month, 9,000 by August.

    Pollution permits; Media 21st Century Business Herald · 28 May 2026

  18. ApprovalsNorth Area

    The North Area's enhancement is approved: three shifts, 60,000 more body sets a year, range-extender parts and a fuel depot.

    North Area approval 2025 · 3 Jul 2025

  19. BuildingSouth Area

    The South Area's main buildings pass their building inspection: stamping and welding, paint, assembly and battery packs. A building inspection, not the start of production.

    Huangpu ledger · 23 Jul 2025

  20. Approvals

    MIIT adds range-extender cars at the Guangzhou address — and only there.

    MIIT batch 395

  21. ProductionSouth Area

    The South Area's first phase reaches mass production, the district government says.

    Huangpu District · 26 Nov 2025

  22. ProductionSouth Area

    First vehicle off the South Area's line, the district government's work report says.

    Huangpu work report 2025 · 8 May 2025

  23. ApprovalsSouth Area

    Phase II, the South Area, approved a month after its application: 300,000 body-part sets a year, in buildings 'basically built'.

    Phase II approval; Phase II environmental report · 26 Aug 2024

  24. BuildingSouth Area

    CAIE wins the South Area's paint pretreatment and e-coat order; the paint shop is planned at 60 an hour.

    CAIE

  25. ApprovalsNorth Area

    Approved to build 120,000 electric cars a year — the body-parts line converted, on two shifts.

    Guangzhou approval 2023

  26. ProductionNorth Area

    Vehicle production begins.

    20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026

  27. Approvals

    MIIT approves the Guangzhou factory under the Zhaoqing maker, at 鹏行环街1号, the North Area.

    MIIT batch 366

  28. BuildingNorth Area

    Construction completed.

    20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026

  29. ApprovalsNorth Area

    The original body-parts project is approved: 100,000 sets a year.

    Guangzhou environmental report 2023 · 27 Jul 2023

Site, land and buildings
Registered address
鹏行环街1号 (No. 1 Pengxing Huanjie) in the North Area — the address on every Guangzhou model XPeng disclosures; MIIT batch 366
Buildings
974,000 m² at the end of 2025, up from 830,000 a year earlier, on more than 1.1 million m² of leased land 20-F 2025; 20-F 2024
North Area buildings
Leased from GET New Energy (广州凯得新能源科技) since 1 July 2022, with an obligation to buy 20-F 2025
South Area buildings
Held by Guangzhou Zhida New Energy (广州智达新能源); the 2025 expansion report says the site is leased from Baoneng Expansion report 2025
Lines and equipment
As ofWhat the record shows
North Area Five presses — 2,400, 1,200 and three of 1,000 tonnes; 42 spot-welding robots on the main line; every shop designed for 30 an hour; one final-assembly line. Guangzhou approval 2023
South Area Presses of 2,400, 1,200, 1,000 (two) and 800 tonnes; about 400 welding robots; paint at 60 an hour; two trim lines, two chassis lines and one final line, with space kept for a second. Phase II approval
South Area The expansion adds one of each press (nine in all), several hundred welding robots, a new paint line, equipment for four more final lines, EU-standard chargers and a battery-pack line of 28 robots and 160 AGVs. Expansion approval 2025
A 16,000-tonne die-caster: the P7+ rear floor, 167 parts in one piece. XPeng release
South Area Its permit lists nine presses, five welding main lines, three paint systems, eight assembly lines and a test track — equipment permitted, not proof of use. Pollution permits
Stamping fully automated, a part every 5 seconds; 396 robots in the body shop, three models on one line; primer-less paint with a 2K clearcoat. Huangpu District
Registration and permits
Registered to
Zhaoqing Xiaopeng New Energy Investment, through its Guangzhou branch; Guangzhou Zhipeng Manufacturing holds no listing MIIT register; MIIT batch 366
Production address
Approved by MIIT on 29 Dec 2022; range-extender cars added on 19 Jun 2025, at this address only MIIT batch 366; MIIT batch 395
Energy review
Phase II approved on 1 Jul 2025, to be signed off before production Guangdong energy review
North Area permit
91440101MA9Y5FWU1U001V, complete-vehicle manufacturing; re-issued 30 Sep 2025 Pollution permits
South Area permit
91440101MA9Y5FWU1U002V, auto parts manufacturing; re-issued 15 May 2026, valid to 2031 Pollution permits
Evidence & sources

Every fact is dated by the time it describes; where its source was published later, that date follows the source's name. Capacity is shown in layers — what a plant was designed for, what regulators approved, what management estimated and what was observed — never as one number, and a line's rate or a count of body sets is never turned into cars a year. XPulse's own arithmetic and readings are marked as such. Record as of 2 Oct 2026.

Research as of 2 Oct 2026