Where are Leapmotor cars made? Who makes the B10 and C10

Leapmotor cars sold in the UK are made in China, where the company’s main factory is in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. Leapmotor itself is a Chinese company from Hangzhou, part-owned by Stellantis, and since October 2026 its B10 has also been built at a Stellantis plant near Zaragoza in Spain, though those cars are going to EU markets first.

That split matters if you are looking at a B10 or C10. Your car comes from China, it is sold and serviced through Stellantis dealers, and it is backed by a joint venture that Stellantis controls. Here is who does what, where each model is built and what that means when you are choosing a car.

Who makes Leapmotor cars?

Leapmotor cars are made by Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology, a Chinese electric car maker founded in December 2015 and headquartered in Hangzhou, according to Wikipedia’s company profile. Its founders, Fu Liquan and Zhu Jiangming, also co-founded Dahua Technology. The company listed its shares in Hong Kong on 29 September 2022, CnEVPost reported.

Stellantis, the group behind Peugeot, Vauxhall, Fiat, Citroen and Jeep, became a major shareholder in October 2023. It paid about €1.5 billion for roughly 20% of Leapmotor (CnEVPost) and set up a joint venture called Leapmotor International, which Stellantis owns 51% and Leapmotor 49% (electrive). That joint venture holds the exclusive rights to sell and build Leapmotor products outside Greater China.

So the honest answer to “who makes Leapmotor?” has two parts. Leapmotor designs and engineers the cars and builds most of them in China. Stellantis, through Leapmotor International, handles exports, sales and European production. In the UK the company trading as Leapmotor is Leapmotor International Business S.P.A., as the small print on Leapmotor’s B10 page shows. Our Leapmotor brand guide covers the full UK line-up.

Where are Leapmotor cars made in China?

Leapmotor’s main plant is in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, nearly 400 km south west of the port of Shanghai. The Jinhua municipal government puts its annual capacity at 120,000 cars, and the first C10 and T03 cars bound for Europe were built there and shipped from Shanghai in 2024, electrive reported. The company has also planned a second production base in Hangzhou to add capacity.

China-built cars are what UK buyers receive. Auto Express reported on 14 September 2026 that Leapmotor cars are currently built in China and that UK customers will keep getting China-built cars for now. The reason is tariffs: the EU charges up to 35.3% on electric cars from some Chinese makers, on top of its standard 10% import duty, while the UK charges no extra levy on Chinese-made cars (Auto Express). Leapmotor therefore points its European factory output at EU markets, where it saves the most.

Where are Leapmotor cars made in Europe?

The B10 is built at Stellantis’ Figueruelas plant near Zaragoza, Spain, where series production started in October 2026. The same factory builds the Opel Corsa, Peugeot 208 and Lancia Ypsilon, and B10 production was originally planned at 40,000 cars a year (electrive). Chassis parts come from Lieder Automotive in nearby Borja, a joint venture between China’s Duoli Technology and the Basque supplier Fagor Ederlan.

This is Leapmotor’s second attempt at European production. The first was the T03 city car, assembled at Stellantis’ Tychy plant in Poland from June 2024 until spring 2025, when Stellantis ended the project (CnEVPost).

More is planned. The B05, the B03X and the B03 are expected to join the B10 in Spain from 2027, and an Opel-badged SUV using Leapmotor’s battery, powertrain and electronics is due at Zaragoza in 2028. Stellantis also plans to transfer its Villaverde plant in Madrid to Leapmotor International’s Spanish subsidiary.

Site	Country	What it builds	Status in November 2026	Where the cars go
Jinhua, Zhejiang	China	Leapmotor’s main plant; built the first C10 and T03 cars for Europe	About 120,000 cars a year capacity	China, the UK and other export markets
Hangzhou	China	Headquarters and a planned second production base	Planned to add capacity	Not announced
Figueruelas, Zaragoza	Spain	B10; B05, B03X and B03 from 2027; Opel SUV from 2028	B10 production started October 2026	EU markets
Villaverde, Madrid	Spain	Not announced	Stellantis plans to transfer it to Leapmotor International	Not announced
Tychy	Poland	T03 city car	Ended spring 2025	Europe

At the Zaragoza launch, Leapmotor founder Zhu Jiangming said: “Our roots are in China and our ambition is global.” Danilo Annese, who runs Leapmotor in Europe, said: “We are in Europe; we want to stay in Europe.”

Will UK Leapmotors ever come from Spain?

Not for now, but Leapmotor has not ruled it out. Leapmotor UK boss Damien Dally told Auto Express that “that’s not to say that we will never get cars from Spain or Europe.” The company’s European sales and marketing director, Francesco Giacalone, added that “bringing a car over from China has started to become expensive”, pointing to shipping costs he said had risen by 150%.

Two things could change the picture. One is UK trade policy: the government has been weighing tariffs on Chinese electric cars, and a UK duty would make Spanish supply more attractive.

The other runs the opposite way. Stricter UK and EU rules of origin from January 2027 decide whether an EU-built car can cross into Britain tariff-free, and a Spanish-assembled car using Chinese batteries and parts may not pass. Until either moves, expect a UK Leapmotor to arrive from China.

Who makes the Leapmotor B10?

The B10 is a Leapmotor design, built in China for the UK and in Spain for the EU, and sold here through Stellantis retailers. It is a mid-size electric SUV with a 67.1 kWh battery, a 270-mile WLTP range, DC charging at up to 168 kW and a 430-litre boot (Leapmotor), with a list price of £32,495 in November 2026 (Carwow). Leapmotor’s own £1,500 Leap-Grant comes off that for private buyers. The full figures are in our Leapmotor B10 review.

The B10 has quickly become the brand’s best-selling UK model. Leapmotor held 1% of the UK new car market in June 2026 and 3% of the electric car market, according to Auto Express, and our report on the B10’s September sales shows it placed second among private battery-electric buyers that month.

The C10, the larger SUV that launched Leapmotor in the UK in March 2025, also comes from China. It has a 69.9 kWh battery, a 263-mile WLTP range and a 485-litre boot, and lists at £36,500, with a £2,750 Leap-Grant on orders placed by 31 December 2026 (Leapmotor). See our Leapmotor C10 review for more.

What does a Leapmotor cost to run? A worked UK example

A B10 costs about 1.6p a mile to charge at home overnight and 20.4p a mile on a public rapid charger, on EV Compared’s figures. Method: efficiency is WLTP miles divided by battery capacity, here the capacity Leapmotor publishes because it does not say which figure is usable, priced at 6.5p/kWh on Intelligent Octopus Go, 26.32p/kWh at the October to December 2026 price cap and 82p/kWh at the Zapmap rapid average for October 2026 (see our methodology).

EV Compared figure	Leapmotor B10	Leapmotor C10
List price, November 2026	£32,495	£36,500
Battery capacity published	67.1 kWh	69.9 kWh
WLTP range	270 miles	263 miles
Efficiency	4.0 miles per kWh	3.8 miles per kWh
Full charge at home, 6.5p/kWh	£4.36	£4.54
Full charge at the price cap, 26.32p/kWh	£17.66	£18.40
Pence per mile at home, off-peak	1.6p	1.7p
Pence per mile at the price cap	6.5p	7.0p
Pence per mile on a rapid charger, 82p/kWh	20.4p	21.8p
List price per mile of WLTP range	£120	£139

Take a driver covering 10,000 miles a year. Charging a B10 entirely at home on the 6.5p/kWh off-peak rate costs about £162 a year; the C10 costs about £173. On a standard tariff at the price cap the figures rise to about £654 and £700. Relying on public rapid chargers for everything would cost about £2,038 in the B10 and £2,179 in the C10. Where the car is built makes no difference to these figures; where you charge it changes them more than twelvefold.

Is Leapmotor a good car brand?

On published data, Leapmotor offers a lot of car for the money with sound safety and warranty cover, but its UK track record is short. The C10 comes with a four-year warranty and eight years of battery cover (Motoring Research) and holds a five-star Euro NCAP rating, awarded in 2024 (Euro NCAP). The B10 has the same four-year warranty, limited to 60,000 miles, and its own eight-year battery cover (Autotrader). EV Compared has not driven either car; this verdict rests on published data.

The open question is longevity. Leapmotor has sold cars in the UK only since March 2025, too recently for long-term reliability surveys to say much about the C10 or B10, so there is no reliable picture yet of common faults. The Stellantis link is the brand’s main reassurance: it launched with 44 UK dealers, all existing Stellantis sites (EV Fleet World), so servicing and parts run through an established network rather than a new one. That is a different set-up from most of the other Chinese EV brands in the UK, which have built their own retail networks from scratch.

What it means for choosing a car

Where a Leapmotor is built should not, on its own, decide whether you buy one. A China-built B10 and a Spain-built B10 are the same design, and UK buyers get the China-built car either way for now. What does matter is the backing behind the badge, and Leapmotor’s is unusually strong for a young brand: a listed Chinese maker with global deliveries of 666,539 cars in the first nine months of 2026, and Stellantis holding a controlling share of the business that sells it here.

Leapmotor suits a buyer who wants a roomy electric SUV for less than most established rivals, charges mostly at home and is comfortable with a brand that has only a short UK history. The B10 is the better value of the two on list price per mile of range, at £120 against £139 for the C10. It suits less well a buyer who keeps cars for ten years and wants a long reliability record first, or one who would rather wait to see whether UK tariff decisions move Leapmotor’s prices.