Leapmotor
A Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer founded in 2015. It pursues a model of full-domain in-house development and deep self-manufacturing, covering core areas such as electric drive systems, batteries and electronic and electrical architectures through in-house research and production.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Leapmotor was founded in 2015, and at the time of its founding the team had 50 people, 41 of whom were engineers, and eleven years later 21 of them are still at the company; the company currently has 10,000 employees, 8,500 of whom do R&D.
Leapmotor's operating data shows: global deliveries of 103,129 vehicles in August 2026, net profit attributable to the parent company of 210 million yuan in the first half of 2026, 18 component factories, and 65% of vehicle cost under its own control.
Leapmotor adheres to a model of full-domain in-house development and deep self-manufacturing, and the heads of its four product lines are all veterans who joined in 2015; vehicles and electronics each have teams of about 3,000 people, and electric drive and batteries each have more than 1,000 people.
Leapmotor's second brand aims to carry out a reconstruction of spatial form and vehicle architecture similar to the iPhone replacing feature phones, rather than simply adding product lines or engaging in a price war.
Leapmotor's second brand's new car is planned to be unveiled and begin deliveries in the fourth quarter of next year, adopting a reconstructed cabin architecture with a space efficiency rate exceeding 100%.
Leapmotor's Four-Leaf Clover 5.0 adopts a central integrated control architecture, compressing the vehicle wiring harness to within 500 meters; 48V power supply throughout the vehicle can reduce wiring harness weight by 50%; the vehicle-wide Ethernet adopts an asymmetric scheme, with 10G downlink and 100M uplink.
Leapmotor's thermal management components were reduced from 69 to 21, longitudinal space occupation was compressed from 580 mm to 310 mm, and piping was shortened from 6.2 meters to 3.3 meters; the industry-first 14-way valve supports 48 switching modes and 54 energy interaction modes, with winter heating power of 18 kW, leading the industry by 20%.
Leapmotor's intelligent driving route chooses a world model, not relying on BEV perception, not depending on rule-based code, with lidar only as safety redundancy; there is a foundation world model in the cloud and a real-time world model on the vehicle, which can be deployed at different computing power levels such as 200 TOPS, 640 TOPS and 1280 TOPS, with code volume reduced by 90%.
Leapmotor selected the world model route in September 2025, got a DEMO version running in March 2026, and reached the industry's first tier on real vehicles in less than a year.
Leapmotor promises to upgrade users of more than 300,000 already-delivered vehicles equipped with lidar and high-level intelligent driving chips to the latest world model version for free, with lifetime free use; among them, for the earliest more than 10,000 units, because the hardware platform is inconsistent, algorithm porting and reconstruction will cost at least 50 million yuan, yet it still fulfills this.
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Leapmotor's supply chain strategy sits between Apple's model of fully controlling order materials and Samsung's model of full-industry-chain in-house development, with part self-manufactured and part externally supplied, because the auto industry has low gross margins and 100% self-manufacturing cannot smooth peaks and fill valleys.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's operating data shows: global deliveries of 103,129 vehicles in August 2026, net profit attributable to the parent company of 210 million yuan in the first half of 2026, 18 component factories, and 65% of vehicle cost under its own control.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor adheres to a model of full-domain in-house development and deep self-manufacturing, and the heads of its four product lines are all veterans who joined in 2015; vehicles and electronics each have teams of about 3,000 people, and electric drive and batteries each have more than 1,000 people.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's second brand aims to carry out a reconstruction of spatial form and vehicle architecture similar to the iPhone replacing feature phones, rather than simply adding product lines or engaging in a price war.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor was founded in 2015, and at the time of its founding the team had 50 people, 41 of whom were engineers, and eleven years later 21 of them are still at the company; the company currently has 10,000 employees, 8,500 of whom do R&D.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's Four-Leaf Clover 5.0 adopts a central integrated control architecture, compressing the vehicle wiring harness to within 500 meters; 48V power supply throughout the vehicle can reduce wiring harness weight by 50%; the vehicle-wide Ethernet adopts an asymmetric scheme, with 10G downlink and 100M uplink.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's thermal management components were reduced from 69 to 21, longitudinal space occupation was compressed from 580 mm to 310 mm, and piping was shortened from 6.2 meters to 3.3 meters; the industry-first 14-way valve supports 48 switching modes and 54 energy interaction modes, with winter heating power of 18 kW, leading the industry by 20%.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's intelligent driving route chooses a world model, not relying on BEV perception, not depending on rule-based code, with lidar only as safety redundancy; there is a foundation world model in the cloud and a real-time world model on the vehicle, which can be deployed at different computing power levels such as 200 TOPS, 640 TOPS and 1280 TOPS, with code volume reduced by 90%.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor selected the world model route in September 2025, got a DEMO version running in March 2026, and reached the industry's first tier on real vehicles in less than a year.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor promises to upgrade users of more than 300,000 already-delivered vehicles equipped with lidar and high-level intelligent driving chips to the latest world model version for free, with lifetime free use; among them, for the earliest more than 10,000 units, because the hardware platform is inconsistent, algorithm porting and reconstruction will cost at least 50 million yuan, yet it still fulfills this.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's external technology supply has formed a second growth curve: vehicle-level technology empowerment for FAW and Stellantis; the electronics product line has 5 external cooperations, battery systems 10, and electric drive and power electronics components have already obtained design wins from 8 OEMs.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's external technology supply requires that the PPM and 3mis of core components it develops and manufactures itself be better than those of suppliers before they are allowed to be put on the market; packaged output (battery packs, electric drive, controllers, lights) can save partners at least 1,000-2,000 yuan in cost.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor concentrates its vehicle plants in two places in Zhejiang, and components with high transport costs must be located within 5 to 10 kilometers, in order to reduce logistics costs and balance production capacity in peak and off seasons.
50%UnverifiedLeapmotor's second brand's new car is planned to be unveiled and begin deliveries in the fourth quarter of next year, adopting a reconstructed cabin architecture with a space efficiency rate exceeding 100%.
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