Xiaopeng Automobile responds to the plan to develop its own battery: no.

CTOnews.com November 28 news, 36 krypton said today that Xiaopeng has put its own battery on the agenda, in charge of Zhong Liang, a former BMW senior battery engineer. It is said that at present, Xiaopeng's battery research and development team has about 100 people, and there has been a lot of communication between Xiaopeng and the upstream material supply chain. The initial landing period of its self-developed battery is about 5 years.

In response, Xiaopeng responded that the personnel changes are true, but self-development of batteries is "not a thing."

CTOnews.com has reported that Xiaopeng Automobile recently established Guangzhou Pengbo Automotive Technology Company, with a registered capital of 5 billion yuan, covering battery manufacturing, battery parts production and motor manufacturing. As for the establishment of the entity company, Xiaopeng said: it has nothing to do with homemade batteries.

It is reported that in addition to Weilai and Xiaopeng, GAC, Great Wall and Geely all have plans for homemade batteries. Honeycomb batteries hatched by the Great Wall will soon be launched on IPO, and GAC announced in August this year that it will invest 10.9 billion yuan to build a battery manufacturing line.