At the end of August, after He Xiaopeng joined Xiaopeng Motors as the chairman of Xiaopeng Motors, he seemed to have a stronger guarantee in the attraction of talents.
"Starting in October, one or two senior VP and SVP-level members will join Xiaopeng Motors almost every month." This sentence spoken by He Xiaopeng to the outside world is not a false statement.
On October 23, Gu Junli, the former backbone of Tesla autopilot machine learning and a well-known machine learning expert, was officially appointed as the vice president of self-driving research and development of Xiaopeng Automobile. After she joined Xiaopeng Motors, Gu Junli will be fully responsible for the creation of the autonomous driving research and development team, play a core role in technology research and development and application, and report directly to He Xiaopeng.
Just a week later, another expert from the automotive industry joined Xiaopeng Motors: Dr. Liu Minghui, former vice president of FAW Technology R&D Institute, served as vice president of Xiaopeng Automobile, and will preside over the research and development of Xiaopeng Automobile's automotive power system, and also report directly to He Xiaopeng.
On October 30, Dr. Liu Minghui, Vice President of Xiaopeng Automobile, appeared at Jilin University to lead the campus recruitment activities of Xiaopeng Automobile
According to public information, Liu Minghui previously served as the vice president of FAW Technology R&D Institute, has 8 years of vehicle performance research and development experience and 17 years of R & D experience in new energy vehicles and automotive electronic products, and has presided over the completion of a number of key product development projects and new energy national 863 major special projects.
Liu Minghui is also the vice president of the Electric Vehicle Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China, and the leader of the China Expert Group (EVS) of the United Nations World Forum on The Coordination of Vehicle Regulations (un/wp29).
In addition to Liu Minghui, who officially announced his joining, according to Lei Feng, dr. Xu Jihan, former vice president of Fisco Electric Vehicle and chief engineer of GAC Research Institute, also joined Xiaopeng Automobile as vice president of technology in the first half of 2017.
On October 12, Xiaopeng Automobile and Zhengzhou Haima cooperated in the first mass production model, Xiaopeng Automobile Geek Edition, rolled off the production line in Zhengzhou. Located in a compact, all-electric SUV, this two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive version has an acceleration time of 7.9 seconds and 5.8 seconds of 0-100 km/h and a maximum range of 300 km/ h. According to Lei Feng, this model will be launched in small-scale mass production at the end of this year.
At the end of August this year, after joining Xiaopeng Motors as chairman, He Xiaopeng announced that xiaopeng motors' R&D teams in Guangzhou, Beijing and Silicon Valley would reach 1,500 people by the end of 2018, and more than 3,000 people by 2019.
Among them, He Xiaopeng said that "70% of the team will be invested in technology research and development.". Obviously, gathering a group of technology research and development leaders is only a means, relying on them to attract more outstanding industry talents to join is the purpose.
At present, the sense of urgency of time still exists for Xiaopeng Automobile, and the pressure of mass production still exists. The off-line of the Geek Version of Xiaopeng Motors can be seen as a phased product, or even just a transitional model.
The real volkswagen-oriented, suitable for large-scale mass production is what He Xiaopeng called the "2.0 version" Xiaopeng car, which will be open to the public in 2018. However, moving from small-scale mass production to large-scale mass production, the problems to be solved and the challenges faced by Xiaopeng Motors are not small - and it is a large number of talents that support automobile research and development and mass production, which is why Xiaopeng Motors will put recruitment in a very important position at this stage.
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