XPeng exported 6,503 vehicles in May — a record for the Guangzhou-based automaker and an 80.4% increase from the 3,605 units shipped in May 2025, according to data published by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
The result marked the fifth consecutive month of rising export volumes and a further 8.3% sequential gain over the 6,006 units shipped in April.
Overseas shipments accounted for roughly 20% of XPeng‘s 32,158 total global deliveries in the month, a growing share at a time when the company’s domestic sales remain below 2025 levels.
May was XPeng‘s fifth consecutive month of year-on-year delivery declines globally, with the brand projecting a major Q2 rebound as the new GX SUV enters mass production.
In the January-to-May period, XPeng shipped 24,066 vehicles overseas, up 61.4% from 14,909 in the same period of 2025.
The company exported 45,008 vehicles for the full year 2025, a 96% increase over 2024.
According to local media reports earlier this year, XPeng is now targeting more than 90,000 overseas deliveries in 2026 — roughly double last year’s total.
The entry-level G6 SUV continued to anchor XPeng‘s overseas push, accounting for 4,361 of the 6,503 exports in May, or 67.1% of the total.
The figure represented a 77.9% year-on-year increase from 2,451 units in May 2025 and a 17.4% sequential gain from April’s 3,714.
Through the first five months of 2026, the G6 alone accounted for 15,985 of XPeng‘s 24,066 exports, a 66.4% share.
The SUV is produced across three continents.
Manufacturing bases include XPeng‘s own plants in China, and at Magna Steyr’s facility in Graz, Austria — where it has been assembled from semi-knockdown kits since September 2025.
Most recently at EP Manufacturing Berhad’s plant in Melaka, Malaysia, where the first locally assembled unit rolled off the line in early June.
The G9, XPeng‘s larger flagship SUV, posted its strongest export month of 2026 at 1,190 units, nearly doubling the 631 shipped in May 2025.
Together, the G6 and G9 accounted for 85.3% of May’s export total.
Assembly of both models — plus the P7+ and an upcoming fourth model — at the Graz facility allows XPeng to avoid the European Commission’s additional duties on Chinese-built EVs.
P7+ Ramps in Europe
P7+ exports rose to 323 units in May, up from 281 in April and just 10 in February, as the sedan’s European rollout gathered pace.
The model was virtually absent from the export mix a year earlier, with just one unit shipped overseas in May 2025.
It was the third model assembled at Magna Steyr’s Graz plant, where trial production was completed in January. Series production began in April.
The automaker began P7+ deliveries in Europe in early June, with Vice Chairman and Co-President Brian Gu personally handing over the first French-market unit to a customer in Paris.
Deliveries are now rolling out across 25 European markets, with the entry price set at €43,990 ($50,800) in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Larger Models
The X9 MPV shipped 596 units overseas in May, a 29.6% year-on-year increase from 460.
The model has found traction in right-hand-drive markets across Southeast Asia, where it held the top-selling MPV position in Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia earlier this year.
The GX, XPeng’s new flagship SUV that launched domestically on May 20, also recorded its first-ever exports in the month at 14 units.
Large-scale overseas shipments are not expected until later in the year as production ramps to meet domestic demand first — the model secured 24,863 confirmed orders within 12 hours of its launch.
Mona Series
The Mona M03, which outsells all other XPeng models combined in China, was absent from the May export breakdown at zero units, down from 104 in April and 29 in March.
The company began its first-ever exports of the Mona series to the Middle East and North Africa in October 2025, but overseas volumes have remained negligible.
XPeng plans to bring the Mona line to Europe in July, led by the upcoming L03 compact SUV, according to managing director for the UK and Europe Elvis Cheng.
Manufacturing Footprint Widens
XPeng has been building overseas production capacity at an accelerating pace to support its export ambitions.
Beyond the Magna Steyr partnership — now expanding to a fourth model before year-end — the company acquired a 90% stake in an Indonesian manufacturing entity under the Erajaya Group in May, and the Malaysian CKD assembly line for the G6 became operational in June.
The Graz facility is already running out of capacity, Elvis Cheng disclosed at an FT summit last month, where he confirmed XPeng is in early talks with Volkswagen about acquiring or sharing European factory space.
The company would also consider building an entirely new plant on the continent if a suitable acquisition does not materialize, Cheng said.
At the current January-to-May pace of roughly 4,813 units per month, XPeng is annualizing at approximately 57,760 overseas deliveries — well short of the 90,000-unit target.
Reaching that figure would require average monthly exports of roughly 9,419 units across the remaining seven months.
The second half of 2025 was considerably stronger than the first, with the final four months of that year accounting for an estimated 20,302 of the 45,008 full-year total, suggesting a similar back-half weighting is built into XPeng‘s internal planning for 2026.
XPeng registered over 3,400 vehicles across European markets in April — about half of its export volume that month.
The brand now operates across more than 60 countries.
