【Lieyun Network (WeChat: ilieyun) Beijing] Reported on January 14 (Text/Wang Fei)
A rumor last October was once again confirmed.
Today, Xiaomi announced that it has appointed Yu Liguo as vice president of Xiaomi Automobile and political commissar of Xiaomi Automobile Beijing Headquarters, responsible for coordinating the comprehensive management of Xiaomi Automobile, the promotion of special business, and the organization and talent construction of Xiaomi Automobile Beijing Headquarters.
According to people familiar with the matter, Xiaomi Automobile is most interested in Yu Liguo's all-round performance in the process of creating the Jihu brand.
Overall, Yu Liguo has rich experience and contacts in the automotive industry, especially for the establishment and overall management of new energy vehicle brands, and the network in the circle is very broad. It is expected to bring impetus to the brand building, organization and talent building of Xiaomi Automobile.
Led the creation of Polar Fox Automobile and served as president, but was "hidden in the snow" for "inappropriate remarks"
According to the data, Yu Liguo was in charge of BAIC BJEV's strategic planning, fixed investment, joint venture cooperation, vehicle qualification announcement and government approval, medium and long-term product planning, user experience design, information technology, digital application, ARCFOX (Jihu Automobile) Division and other work. It was also under his presidency that BAIC Group created a brand new brand of Jihu Automobile.
In 2020, Yu Liguo began to serve as the president of arcfox business unit.
However, only a year or so, Yu Liguo was "hidden" by Beiqi Blue Valley and Jihu Automobile for making "inappropriate remarks".
It is understood that in March 2021, @Jiang Baoxin, the founder of the Electric Vehicle User Alliance, posted a post by Yu Liguo, president of Jihu, in the Jihu APP community on March 28, 2021. The trigger for the incident was that he, as a Polar Fox user, sent a circle of friends complaining about the garbage operated by the Extreme Fox APP community, as well as a Weibo that questioned the detailed rules.
Jiang Baoxin said: The main reason for buying the Polar Fox Alpha T was touched by Yu Liguo's enthusiasm, and now the intestines are all remorseful, saying that they are "good friends" and "buddies", but outside the words are warnings and intimidation in disguise: If you say it is not good for the Extreme Fox, I will clean you up, and I will clean you up in Beijing just like playing!
Perhaps affected by the incident, on October 12, 2021, it was reported that Yu Liguo was suspected of joining Xiaomi Motors.
Checking public reports, on October 18, 2021, Yu Liguo was still speaking for Jihu Automobile in a number of press releases. He believes that every brand has different characteristics of each brand. Similar to other brands, Jihu Automobile is also pursuing the concept of digital cars, which is the common pursuit of various companies in the future. The difference is that in the matter of electrification, The parent company of Jihu, Beiqi Blue Valley, has many advantages.
Yu Liguo also said that we have the foundation of past technology accumulation and quality attention, and also inherit the past supply chain, and at the same time, inherit Magna's understanding of luxury cars and quality manufacturing for a hundred years. In the development of new energy vehicles, Beiqi Blue Valley came too early, and the national new energy vehicle innovation center gave us a lot of accumulation. Facing the future, a new brand such as Jihu Automobile will bring you some new experiences, and it has created an era.
It took a whole quarter for Xiaomi to officially announce it.
At present, the official website of Jihu Automobile has an introduction to Liguo, which has shown "404", and on Baidu Encyclopedia, it has been crowned with the title of "Vice President of Xiaomi Automobile and Political Commissar of Xiaomi Automobile Beijing Headquarters".
Xiaomi makes cars, and Lei Jun's 1 billion shares equity incentive plan attracts talents
In March 2021, Xiaomi officially announced the construction of the car. Lei Jun's bold words are still in my ears: "This is the last major entrepreneurial project in my life." I am willing to bet on the full reputation of my life, personally lead the team, and fight for Xiaomi Cars! ”
However, when Officer Lei announced the establishment of Xiaomi Automobile Company, a photo of the "Core Heavenly Regiment" released to the public exposed the dilemma of only one person in the "17 Luohans" with automobile-related background.
In addition to this lineup, Xiaomi Automobile urgently needs to recruit more talents from automobile-related backgrounds, especially handsome talents to join, to help Xiaomi better achieve the great cause of car manufacturing.
Of course, with the advancement of time, Xiaomi car manufacturing has also received positive responses from all talents.
Lei Jun once revealed at a meeting that Xiaomi Auto has received 20,000 resumes and 453 people in the research and development team.
In September 2021, it was also reported that Xiaomi will hold a special general meeting of shareholders on October 25 to approve the adoption of Xiaomi EV's equity incentive plan, which is planned to authorize a maximum of 1 billion shares, accounting for 10% of the total number of issued shares.
Coincidentally, Yu Liguo was almost also exploded to join Xiaomi Auto at the point in time.
If the timeline is right, then it may be understood that it is Yu Liguo's joining that has added great confidence to Lei Jun.
Coupled with the equity incentive plan of 1 billion shares, so at the Xiaomi investor meeting in October 2021, Lei Jun said: The progress of Xiaomi car manufacturing and team work has far exceeded his expectations, and it is expected that Xiaomi car will be officially mass-produced in the first half of 2024.
In the future, with more and more "Yu Liguo" talents joining, we will wait and see whether Xiaomi car manufacturing can speed up again.