XPeng's 2026 Battery Supply: CALB, EVE and FinDreams — No CATL in the GX

XPeng's 2026 line-up reveals a battery supply landscape that has quietly changed: the lead supplier is no longer the name most consumers expect.

Lead supplier — CALB (中创新航). XPeng was an early cornerstone investor in CALB, and the cooperation runs deep. The G6, G7, GX, X9, G9L and MONA L03 are primarily or fully supplied by CALB — and across the entire GX range there is no CATL battery at all.

Second supplier — EVE Energy (亿纬锂能). EVE supplies large volumes for the MONA models and the P7+, plus some range-extender (EREV) variants, in both LFP and ternary chemistries.

Third supplier — FinDreams Battery (弗迪电池, BYD). FinDreams cells mainly appear in some long-range MONA versions, with a relatively limited share.

Three takeaways

1. The "giants" have almost disappeared from cars on sale. Earlier cars such as the P5 and the original P7 used batteries from the industry giants (CATL) in large quantities — that is now history. Today's new main models have essentially all switched to the CALB + EVE + FinDreams combination.

2. It isn't simply a case of "better vs. worse." This is a textbook supply-chain diversification strategy: it spreads the risk of depending on any single supplier, while at the same time giving XPeng stronger purchasing leverage.

3. A telling market signal. The ¥300,000-class flagship GX — with its hardware spec fully maxed out — no longer uses what the general public considers the "top-tier" battery brand. That is a clear divergence from the popular assumption that a premium car must pair with a famous cell maker.

XPeng's battery sourcing has clearly reached a state where the company can pick and choose with ease. And XPeng Group also runs robotics and aircraft businesses, which — in the foreseeable future — will be major battery consumers in their own right. XPeng has evidently worked this out.

Source: 电动兄弟 (Electric Brothers), Weibo — translated & adapted for XPENGTech.