ChinaXPeng CEO He Xiaopeng named the United States as one of the markets his company has to reach eventually. What he did not name was a date.
“If the US government allows companies like ours to enter the market and build plants there, we will definitely take that opportunity,” he told WardsAuto.
The conditional is doing the work. Current US restrictions on Chinese automakers make a direct entry unlikely for now, and He was explicit that XPeng is waiting on a policy change rather than working toward a launch window.
Canada first
The nearer test is Canada. XPeng is in talks with Canadian authorities and local partners, but the company describes this as assessing whether a launch is possible, not preparing one.
Where the brand already sells
XPeng sells cars in Mexico today and is expanding across Europe, and it is looking at new production sites as part of that. The detail worth holding on to from the WardsAuto interview is the manufacturing one: for the US, He said XPeng is prepared to assemble locally rather than ship cars in. That is the harder and more expensive route, and it is the one that eventually gave Japanese and Korean brands a permanent US footing.
None of which is a plan yet. No site, no timeline, and no change in the policy that the whole thing depends on.
