Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile has assembled cars in Wuhan since 1992, and this plant is the last of three it built in the city. Groundbreaking was in May 2011 and the site came on stream in 2013, designed to reach 150,000 cars a year at first and 300,000 once fully equipped. At the venture’s peak the three Wuhan plants together were rated at 750,000 vehicles a year.
Chinese sales did not hold up. DPCA sold around 51,500 cars in 2025, against volumes in the hundreds of thousands a decade earlier, and a 2019 restructuring left it with one plant here plus a second in Chengdu: the first Wuhan plant was converted to other uses and the second was sold to Dongfeng Honda for electric-vehicle production. The remaining site has run well below its capacity ever since.
That is the context for what the plant has been given to do next. Stellantis and Dongfeng said in May 2026 that DPCA’s Wuhan plant would build two new Peugeot new-energy vehicles from 2027 and, alongside them, two Jeep-branded electrified off-roaders for global markets. In August 2026 the partners registered a new company, Dongfeng Stellantis Automotive Technology, to develop and market those cars, with production to run here.
