Source: Caijing Network2022-01-30 15:21
Financial NetworkAuto News January 30 news, in response to the recent market rumors that “Xinwangda will be the A supply of a certain version of Xpeng G9” and “the Ningde era will gradually be replaced by AVIC Lithium Battery”, Xpeng Motors officially responded, ” Recently, the news that we are going to transfer suppliers or let a certain supplier be our core battery supplier is very different from the facts. Xiaopeng Motors will continue to choose a powerful supplier such as CATL to become our company. core partner.”
Xpeng Motors delivered more than 98,000 vehicles in 2021, but insufficient battery supply has slowed down the pace of deliveries. At the financial report meeting in May last year, He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Motors, said that the production capacity of lithium iron phosphate batteries is in short supply, making Xiaopeng production facing uncertainty. This continued until the end of the year.
Sunwoda started out with mobile phone batteries and was listed on the A-share market as an Apple supplier in 2011. In 2008, Sunwoda began to do automotive power battery packaging and battery management systems (BMS), and in 2018 began to officially mass-produce battery cells. Sunwangda has done the battery assembly process for the G3 launched by Xiaopeng in 2018. Since last year, Sunwoda has announced orders from Geely, Dongfeng, GAC and SAIC.