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Components base · Hubei, China

Wuhan 武汉

XPeng's components base, making drive motors and battery packs and supplying parts for overseas assembly.

Makes
Drive motors · Battery packs · Parts for overseas assembly [1, 2, 3, 4]Its facilities include welding and a paint shop. Parts exports began in June 2025.
Operating since
Second half of 2023 [5, 6]

Where it stands

Industrial output value · 2025

RMB26bn+

Production doubled in 2025, according to He Xiaopeng. Industrial output value measures production in money; it is not revenue or a count of cars. [7]

What's ahead

  • Approved · Jun 2026

    A larger components base

    New stamping, die-casting and battery shops, plus changes to the existing welding and paint shops, are approved. Once built, they add annual capacity for 300,000 battery packs, 400,000 drive units and 200,000 body sets. [4]

How it got here

  1. XPeng signs the Wuhan manufacturing project. [8]

  2. The first half-year of operation generates RMB15bn of output. [5]

  3. Parts exports for overseas assembly begin. [3, 9]

  4. A major expansion of component production is approved. [4]

Explore the evidence

Production figures
Makes
Drive motors — named in MIIT's records on the G6, G7, G9, P7, P7+, X9, GX and G9L — battery packs, and parts for overseas assembly MIIT batch 400; MIIT register; Media Hubei Daily; Wuhan approval 2026
Operating since
The second half of 2023, its first half-year of output Wuhan development zone; Pollution permits
Car registration
Not in MIIT's register as a car plant for China: no XPeng model names a Wuhan address. MIIT register; 20-F 2025
Latest known output
Output value above RMB26bn in 2025; production doubled Media Hubei Daily

Its output is counted in value, not cars: RMB15bn in its first half-year, 19bn in 2024 and more than 26bn in 2025.

Output value of the Wuhan base
0102030202320242025RMB15bnRMB19bnRMB26bn2023 · RMB15bnJul–Dec 2023, the first half-year2024 · RMB19bn2025 · RMB26bnmore than RMB26bn; production doubled
The base's yearly output value in billions of yuan, as the development zone and He Xiaopeng gave it — the first figure covers only its first half-year of operation, and 2025's is 'more than' 26. Wuhan development zone; Media Changjiang Daily; Media Hubei Daily

Parts exports began in June 2025 and exceeded RMB3bn over half a year, XPeng's Li Chunxiao told Hubei Daily in May 2026. XPeng's own February letter also reports the export value. This is export value, separate from the base's industrial output value. Media Hubei Daily; XPeng's Wuhan letter

Capacity: design, approvals and estimates

Planned in 2021 as a 100,000-car plant, Wuhan was approved in June 2026 for more parts instead: 300,000 battery packs, 400,000 drive units and 200,000 car bodies a year, added.

ApprovedObservedPlanned

  1. Original plan100,000 cars a yearA vehicle and powertrain plant with stamping, welding, paint, final-assembly, battery and electric-drive shops.XPeng release; (2) · 31 Jul 2021
  2. The city's figure150,000–200,000 cars a year at peakThe Wuhan government's; not in any XPeng release.Wuhan government
  3. DisclosedCar parts, 100,000 sets a year; 235 production days in 2025Hubei disclosure · 27 Jan 2026
  4. Component expansion approved200,000 body sets, 300,000 battery packs, 100,000 front and 300,000 rear drives and 300,000 motor controllers a year, addedWuhan approval 2026
Recent developments

The approved expansion adds components capacity at Wuhan.

  • The interim report drops 'all' from how XPeng says it makes its cars, and pledges Wuhan's buildings for the first time. Interim report 2026 · 28 Sep 2026
  • A component expansion is approved: new stamping, die-casting and battery shops, adding 300,000 battery packs and 400,000 drive units a year. Wuhan approval 2026
  • Construction complete; the property ownership certificate is obtained. 20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026
  • Hubei Daily reports that Wuhan has become XPeng's production and export base for parts used to assemble cars abroad from kits. Media Hubei Daily

XPulse reading

A components base supporting overseas assembly

  • XPeng's own reports call Wuhan a components plant. Its facilities include welding and a paint shop, alongside battery-pack and electric-drive production.
  • Parts exports for overseas assembly began in June 2025, according to XPeng's Li Chunxiao. This places Wuhan in the supply chain for cars completed abroad; its industrial output value and component capacity remain separate from finished-car totals.

ESG report 2024; Pollution permits; Wuhan approval 2026; Media Hubei Daily

Full dated history

  1. Production

    XPeng's 2027 campus recruitment lists a production-planning role at its 'Wuhan KD factory', coordinating incoming parts, production schedules and packaging materials.

    XPeng recruitment

  2. Approvals

    The interim report drops 'all' from how XPeng says it makes its cars, and pledges Wuhan's buildings for the first time.

    Interim report 2026 · 28 Sep 2026

  3. Approvals

    The component expansion is approved: new stamping, die-casting and battery shops, adding 300,000 battery packs and 400,000 drives a year.

    Wuhan approval 2026

  4. Building

    Construction complete; the property ownership certificate is obtained.

    20-F 2025 · 16 Apr 2026

  5. Approvals

    The pollution permit is updated for a full paint shop: pretreatment, e-coat, primer, clearcoat and topcoat.

    Pollution permits

  6. Production

    Hubei Daily reports that Wuhan has become XPeng's production and export base for parts used to assemble cars abroad from kits.

    Media Hubei Daily

  7. Production

    Output value above RMB26bn, production doubled, He Xiaopeng says in March 2026.

    Media Hubei Daily · 4 Mar 2026

  8. Building

    Permit for a component expansion: a third stamping and welding phase and a production-preparation hall.

    Wuhan construction permits · 15 Jan 2026

  9. Production

    Parts exports for overseas assembly begin. XPeng's Li Chunxiao later says exports exceeded RMB3bn over half a year; XPeng's February 2026 letter also reports that value.

    Media Hubei Daily · 16 May 2026; XPeng's Wuhan letter · 14 Feb 2026

  10. Approvals

    XPeng's 2024 ESG report calls it the 'Wuhan Components Plant'.

    ESG report 2024

  11. Production

    The Economic Observer reports that the base never obtained vehicle-production qualification, and that G6s once built there were finished in Guangzhou (an unnamed employee).

    Media Economic Observer

  12. Building

    Construction permit for a final-assembly building of 151,016 m², with a power house and a wastewater plant.

    Wuhan construction permits · 19 Dec 2024

  13. Approvals

    Wuhan's economy bureau counts XPeng among the zone's complete-vehicle projects — at odds with XPeng's own framing.

    Wuhan economy bureau

  14. Production

    First half-year of operation: output value RMB15bn.

    Wuhan development zone · 25 Mar 2024

  15. Production

    Production start recorded in both companies' pollution permits.

    Pollution permits

  16. Approvals

    XPeng's accounts first say it makes 'all vehicles through its own plants in Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and Wuhan'.

    Interim report 2023 · 29 Sep 2023

  17. Building

    The first phase's buildings and equipment are completed and moved into fixed assets.

    Interim report 2023 · 29 Sep 2023

  18. Building

    The Wuhan government puts peak capacity at 150,000–200,000 cars a year.

    Wuhan government

  19. Building

    Work starts on 1,500 mu: stamping, welding, paint, final-assembly, battery and electric-drive shops.

    XPeng release

  20. Building

    Signed: a vehicle and powertrain plant, planned at 100,000 cars a year.

    XPeng release

Site, land and buildings
Companies
Xiaopeng Motors Huazhong (Wuhan) and Wuhan Xiaopeng Smart Manufacturing Interim report 2026
XPeng calls it
A 'manufacturing base' (2026 interim report); the 'Wuhan Components Plant' (2024 ESG report) Interim report 2026; ESG report 2024
Lines and equipment
As ofWhat the record shows
A permitted final-assembly building, and shipping and handover buildings. Wuhan construction permits · 19 Dec 2024
Die-casting with melting and holding furnaces; molten aluminium is delivered to furnaces beside the machines. ESG report 2025 · 16 Apr 2026
The XPeng Huazhong permit lists six presses, welding and paint shops and two die-casting machines — and no final-assembly unit. Pollution permits
Battery and electric-drive shops, under Wuhan Xiaopeng Smart Manufacturing's own permit. Pollution permits
The expansion approval explicitly names the existing welding and paint shops. It adds equipment and modifies the paint shop, with e-coating, primer, colour coat, clearcoat and baking processes. Wuhan approval 2026
Registration and permits
Vehicle registration
XPeng's listed vehicle-maker is Zhaoqing Xiaopeng New Energy Investment, with production addresses in Zhaoqing and Guangzhou MIIT register; 20-F 2025
In MIIT's records
A supplier — the drive-motor maker on most current models, and a battery-pack assembler on one X9 MIIT batch 400; MIIT register
Permits
Both classed as auto parts: 91420113MA49R5PF51001W (XPeng Huazhong) and 91420113MA4F1YNK6W001U (Wuhan Xiaopeng Smart Manufacturing) Pollution permits
Export authorisation · 2026
The official list names Wuhan Xiaopeng Motors Trading as an authorised passenger-car exporter for the registered Zhaoqing maker and its Guangzhou branch. This is the trading company's export authorisation, separate from the manufacturing base's vehicle-production admission. 2026 vehicle exporters
How XPeng's accounts describe it
FilingHow XPeng says it makes its cars
Interim report 2021 to interim 2022“vehicles through its plant in Zhaoqing; Guangzhou and Wuhan bases under construction”
Annual report 2022“all vehicles through its own plants in Zhaoqing and Guangzhou”
Interim report 2023“all vehicles through its own plants in Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and Wuhan”
Interim 2024 to interim 2025“…plants in Zhaoqing and Guangzhou, and its own manufacturing base in Wuhan”
Annual report 2025“the same; its narrative adds that XPeng 'mainly' builds at Zhaoqing and Guangzhou”
Interim report 2026“its vehicles through its own plants in Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, and its manufacturing base in Wuhan — 'all' dropped”

The first note to the accounts in each report. Interim report 2023; 20-F 2025; Interim report 2026

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