{"id":75493,"date":"2024-08-09T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75493"},"modified":"2024-08-09T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:25:34","slug":"xpeng-kicks-off-mass-production-mona-m03-ahead-of-official-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75493","title":{"rendered":"XPeng kicks off mass production of the MONA M03 ahead of official launch this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1400\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1400\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"MONA M03 production\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>According to a recent post from <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/xpeng\/\">XPeng Motors<\/a> founder, chairman, and CEO He Xiaopeng, the Chinese EV automaker\u2019s new AI-centric model, the MONA M03, has begun mass production overseas. This is another notable milestone, as the MONA M03 is expected to launch later this month.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-375113\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It has only been about five months since XPeng Motors <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/03\/19\/xpeng-motors-announces-new-ai-brand-ev-china\/\">shared details<\/a> of a new incoming AI-driven sub-brand, which we would soon learn is called MONA, following a presentation from XPeng\u2019s CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/04\/25\/xpeng-2k-pure-visual-adas-neural-network-fast-charging-ai-ev-sub-brand-beijing\/\">during the 2024 Beijing Auto Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MONA stands for \u201cMade of New AI,\u201d and much of XPeng\u2019s latest EV technology will debut in the new M03 hatchback coupe. While XPeng initially teased MONA as a sub-brand, its rhetoric changed this past June when the automaker started describing it as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/06\/11\/xpeng-surprises-public-official-name-first-ev-new-mona-brand-launch\/\">a new lineup of XPeng BEVs<\/a>\u00a0rather than a new sub-brand.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where it stands under the XPeng umbrella, we have been anticipating an official launch of the MONA M03 sometime in August, and the company\u2019s founder confirmed that mass production of the new model is now underway.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"MONA M03 production\" class=\"wp-image-375115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=150,75 150w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=300,150 300w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=768,384 768w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=1024,512 1024w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=350,175 350w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=140,70 140w, https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/MONA-M03-production-black.jpg?resize=290,145 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: He Xiaopeng\/Weibo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-xpeng-s-mona-m03-production-now-underway\">XPeng\u2019s MONA M03 production now underway<\/h2>\n<p>Per a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/m.weibo.cn\/status\/5065407121064321\"><em>Weibo<\/em> post<\/a> from He Xiaopeng, MONA M03 production is officially underway in China. Xiaopeng also relayed that XPeng\u2019s \u201cfront-line partners\u201d are working to expedite the production processes of the MONA M03 so it can be delivered to customers at the same time as its launch later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The XPeng founder, chairman, and CEO also echoed previous statements that the MONA M03 will start at RMB 200,000 ($27,900), making it <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/07\/03\/xpeng-debuts-ai-centric-m03-sedan-new-mona-ev-lineup-priced-below-27500\/\">a reasonably affordable new BEV model <\/a>targeted at a younger demographic of buyers. <\/p>\n<p>According to previous regulatory filings in China, the M03 will launch in two separate single-motor variants and the choice of 140 kW or 160 kW peak power, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>With production now underway, XPeng opened MONA M03 reservations on August 8 with a deposit of RMB 99 ($13.81), which enables a discount of RMB 3,000 ($419) on the purchase of the BEV. We will report when the first MONA BEV is officially launched in China later this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent post from XPeng Motors founder, chairman, and CEO He Xiaopeng, the Chinese EV automaker\u2019s new AI-centric model, the MONA M03, has begun mass production overseas. This is another notable milestone, as the MONA M03 is expected to launch later this month. It has only been about five months since XPeng Motors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}