L05 spotted in a 2,000-car XPeng shipment to Europe

A ship carrying 2,000 XPeng cars left Guangzhou’s Nansha port for Europe on 16 October, the Guangzhou Port Authority said on 19 October. The ship, CM Guangzhou, is China Merchants’ new methanol-fuelled car carrier on its first voyage. It carried more than 4,300 vehicles in all and is heading for Spain and Belgium. By its own reported schedule it reaches the Suez Canal in Egypt on 2 November. The port named no model, but its photograph shows at least dozens of XPeng L05s among the cars waiting to load. That fits the port’s own words: it called the 2,000 cars Guangzhou-built, and the L05 is approved for production only at XPeng’s Guangzhou plant, unlike the L03, which is also approved at Zhaoqing. XPeng plans to sell the L05 in Europe from early 2027. In China, where it is sold as the MONA L05, pre-orders opened on 15 October and the car launches on 29 October.

Rows of silver and white XPeng L05s lined up on the quay at Nansha beside the green car carrier CM Guangzhou — XPeng cars lined up beside CM Guangzhou at the Nansha car terminal in Guangzhou, 16 October 2026. Photo: Guangzhou Port Authority, published 19 October.

What the picture shows

The cars in the port’s photograph have the L05’s black roof and pillars, and its headlights, which run down the front corners into the bumper. The L03 has a body-coloured arch over its side windows and thin T-shaped headlights set higher up. Every car in view has the same shape. A picture of the front rows is not a count of all 2,000.

The MONA L05 from the front three-quarter, a silver car on a white background, as pictured in China’s industry ministry filing — The L05 as pictured in China’s industry ministry’s public notice for batch 407, May 2026. Picture: ministry filing, via IT之家.