On 19 June 2025 XPENG announced that its first local production outside China would begin in July, in partnership with Erajaya Group in Indonesia. The vehicle is a right-hand-drive X9. The first locally built car rolled off the line on 1 July and was handed over to a customer at the GIIAS motor show in Jakarta on 24 July.
The June release did not name the city. In July XPENG stated that the plant is at Purwakarta.
What it means for European buyers
XPENG still builds its vehicles primarily at Zhaoqing and Guangzhou in Guangdong. That remains where a European G6, G9 or X9 comes from. The July release does not state that Purwakarta will supply Europe, and says nothing about tariffs or delivery times. The facility is to supply locally adapted vehicles to the Southeast Asian market.
At that point XPENG had delivered over 30,000 X9 units worldwide, and the model was the best-selling MPV in Hong Kong in June. Indonesia is, according to XPENG, on its way to becoming the model’s largest market outside China.
Three Chinese X9 owners drove from Guangzhou on 5 July through Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to Jakarta. XPENG gives the journey as just under 4,000 km and calls it the first crossing of Southeast Asia and the equator by a Chinese electric car of the type. The New G6 made its debut at the same venue, two weeks after its European launch.
A year later XPENG opened its store number 500 outside China in Surabaya in the same country, as the story on store 500 describes. The markets page shows where XPENG sells, and the XPENG X9 page covers the car.
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XPENG: the first locally built car handed over in Jakarta · 24 July 2025