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Vehicle plant · Guangdong, China

Zhaoqing 肇庆

XPeng's first own vehicle plant, focused on the MONA range.

Registered models
MONA M03 · MONA L03 EV [1, 2]The L03 EV is also registered at Guangzhou.
Operating since
May 2020 [3]

Where it stands

Cars built · 2025

>180,000

The first full year of the MONA M03 lifted output above 180,000 cars, according to Guangdong's government profile. [4]

What's ahead

  • Approved · May 2026

    A second MONA model approved

    The MONA L03 EV is approved for production at both Zhaoqing and Guangzhou. [5, 2]

How it got here

  1. XPeng signs the project for its first own factory. [6]

  2. Vehicle production begins with the P7. [3]

  3. The MONA M03 arrives; XPeng's 500,000th car is built here. [7]

  4. Annual output passes 180,000 cars. [4, 8]

  5. The MONA L03 EV is approved at this plant and Guangzhou. [5, 2]

Explore the evidence

Production figures
Models
MONA M03 · MONA L03 EV — the L03 EV is registered here and at Guangzhou XPeng disclosures; MIIT filing 406
Operating since
May 2020, starting with the P7 20-F 2020
Latest known output
More than 180,000 cars in 2025 Guangdong government

Zhaoqing's output more than doubled in 2025, to 182,016 vehicles by the city's count — the first full year after the MONA M03's launch.

New-energy vehicles built in Zhaoqing
0k50k100k150k200k20202021202220232024202518,38084,600130,51667,23575,615182,0162020 · 18,380 vehicles2021 · 84,600 vehicles2022 · 130,516 vehicles2023 · 67,235 vehicles2024 · 75,615 vehicles2025 · 182,016 vehicles
New-energy vehicles built in the city of Zhaoqing each year, from its statistics bulletins (2020–2022 as the 21st Century Business Herald reported them). Guangdong's own profile puts XPeng's Zhaoqing output above 180,000 in 2025. Media 21st Century Business Herald; Zhaoqing statistics

More than 500,000 cars built in Zhaoqing by the end of 2025. Zhaoqing work report 2026

About 40% of XPeng's 2025 shipments came from Zhaoqing, a base manager told a reporter in September 2026. Media 21st Century Business Herald

Capacity: design, approvals and estimates

The original design was 100,000 cars a year. In November 2024, management estimated 200,000–300,000 a year on two shifts at each of XPeng's two vehicle plants.

DesignManagement's estimateLine rateObservedPlanned

  1. Original design100,000 cars a year20-F 2020 · 16 Apr 2021
  2. Phase II plan200,000 cars a yearThe 2021 expansion plan. Guangdong's 2026 profile describes the Phase II site as a test ground, pilot workshops and laboratories.XPeng release; Guangdong government · 28 Jul 2026
  3. Management's estimate200,000–300,000 cars a year on two shiftsSaid of each of XPeng's two plants by Charles Zhang, vice president — XPeng's latest figure.Q3 2024 call
  4. Line rhythmOne car every 90 secondsStill reported in August 2026. A line rate, not a yearly capacity: output depends on shifts and days worked.XPeng release; Media 21st Century Business Herald · 13 Aug 2026
  5. One modelMONA M03 at a rhythm of 20,000 a monthXPeng release · 1 Feb 2025
  6. BuiltMore than 180,000 cars in 2025Zhaoqing's own statistics give 182,016 vehicles for the city.Guangdong government · 28 Jul 2026; Zhaoqing statistics · May 2026
Recent developments

Approved in May 2026 for a second model, the MONA L03 EV, and still adding automation.

Full dated history

  1. Production

    469 industrial robots and a steady rhythm of one car every 90 seconds, a reporter finds.

    Media 21st Century Business Herald

  2. Approvals

    The MONA L03 EV is approved for production here and at Guangzhou.

    MIIT batch 406 approval; MIIT filing 406 · 8 Apr 2026

  3. Production

    More than 180,000 cars built in the year, worth more than RMB21bn; more than 500,000 built here since the plant opened.

    Guangdong government · 28 Jul 2026; Zhaoqing work report 2026 · 2 Feb 2026

  4. Production

    200,000th MONA M03, fourteen months after its launch.

    Media IT Home

  5. Approvals

    The vehicle plant's pollution permit is renewed to October 2030.

    Pollution permits

  6. Production

    100,000th MONA M03.

    XPeng release · 2 Apr 2025

  7. Production

    The MONA M03 reaches a monthly rhythm of 20,000.

    XPeng release · 1 Feb 2025

  8. Building

    Management says each of XPeng's plants can support about 200,000–300,000 cars a year on two shifts.

    Q3 2024 call

  9. Production

    Two shifts since early November; more than 600 cars built in a day.

    Media 汽车像素

  10. Production

    XPeng's 500,000th car, and the 10,000th MONA M03, come off the line here.

    XPeng release

  11. Building

    All four main shops refitted in about 20 days, for more than RMB100m, ahead of a new model; the MONA M03 followed that year.

    Media Shenzhen News; XPeng release · 2 Feb 2024

  12. Production

    XPeng agrees to end production at Haima's plant in Zhengzhou, which had built the G3 since 2018, and it stops in December; the G3i, delivered from August, is built here.

    20-F 2021 · 28 Apr 2022

  13. Building

    Phase II begins, with a plan to raise design capacity from 100,000 to 200,000 cars a year.

    XPeng release

  14. Approvals

    Environmental sign-off tests: two electric-car platforms rated at 40,000 and 60,000 a year, running at 136 and 204 cars a day.

    Media Cailian Press · 27 Jan 2021

  15. Production

    Production starts, with the P7. Designed capacity: 100,000 cars a year.

    20-F 2020 · 16 Apr 2021

  16. Building

    Full construction begins, six months after ground was broken; the plant is finished, with trial production, by the end of September 2019.

    XPeng release · 12 Aug 2021

  17. Building

    Project signed: 600,000 m² planned, and a first phase of 100,000 cars a year.

    XPeng release · 28 May 2019

Site, land and buildings
Address
33 Longhu Avenue, Zhaoqing High-tech Zone (肇庆高新区龙湖大道33号) XPeng disclosures
Land
More than 600,000 m², and a second parcel of 370,000 m² 20-F 2025
Lines and equipment
As ofWhat the record shows
Five shops: stamping, welding, paint, final assembly and battery packs. Flexible production of four models on different platforms; 264 industrial robots; a 30,000 m² test track with 18 surfaces. XPeng release
Five shops: stamping, welding, paint, final assembly and resin. 389 ABB robots; first- and second-level assemblies fully automated. XPeng release
The permit lists five stamping presses and two battery-pack assembly and test lines; a second permit covers the resin shop and a battery, motor and control workshop inside the plant. Pollution permits
469 robots, 387 of them in welding. Media 21st Century Business Herald
Registration and permits
Registered to
Zhaoqing Xiaopeng New Energy Investment — XPeng's one listed maker; this is its first production address 20-F 2025; MIIT register
Vehicle plant permit
91441200MA4WK9UU3C001R, held by Zhaoqing Xiaopeng Motors; valid to 13 Oct 2030 Pollution permits
Parts permit
91441200MA54BAGC7C001U: resin and battery, motor and control workshops; valid to 25 May 2028 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