Founder Profile
Henry Xia
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Henry Xia held a profoundly rigorous, highly technical background in advanced automotive engineering, complex electric powertrain development, and mass-scale industrial R&D. Having successfully graduated from Tsinghua University and operating as a fiercely capable executive managing highly complex vehicle control systems at Guangzhou Automobile Group, this incredibly intense foundation provided the exact mechanical leverage required to successfully co-pilot the massive XPeng enterprise.
Founding Story
Henry Xia (Xia Heng) is an absolutely brilliant Chinese automotive engineer, fiercely skilled industrial architect, and the profoundly influential technical co-founder fundamentally responsible for the incredibly complex mechanical engineering and early prototyping of the massive XPeng electric vehicle fleet. Operating as an incredibly talented R&D executive at GAC Group, Xia aggressively recognized the massive, highly catastrophic stagnation of traditional Chinese automakers. He relentlessly left to co-found XPeng, heavily leveraging advanced open-sourced patents. By fiercely engineering incredibly robust, highly safe electric powertrains and relentlessly establishing the startup's massive early supply chain logistics, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely guaranteed the rapid mass production of the G3 SUV. His massive engineering legacy permanently secured his status as a core titan of the Chinese EV revolution.