Who Founded XPeng?

He Xiaopeng co-founded XPeng in 2014. A highly successful software billionaire (having sold UCWeb to Alibaba), he brought massive capital and deep software expertise to the automotive industry. He explicitly modeled XPeng after Tesla, fiercely obsessing over building highly advanced, proprietary autonomous driving algorithms entirely in-house.

He Xiaopeng was born in 1977 in Huangshi. Education: South China University of Technology.

He was born on November 3, 1977. He co-founded UCWeb in 2004, which Alibaba Group acquired in June 2014.

Henry Xia (Xia Heng) co-founded XPeng in 2014. As a former senior R&D executive at GAC Group, he provided the absolutely critical, deeply complex mechanical engineering expertise required to actually manufacture a physical car, bridging the gap between Xiaopeng's software vision and physical reality.

Henry Xia was born in 1983. Education: Tsinghua University.

Xia Heng, known as Henry Xia, was born on November 7, 1983.

He Tao co-founded XPeng in 2014. Also a highly experienced veteran from GAC Group, he managed the massive, incredibly complex supply chain and early physical prototyping required to bring the company's first electric SUVs to mass production without catastrophic delays. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).