Liu Minghui, former vice president of FAW Technology R&D Institute, served as vice president of Xiaopeng Automobile

[News-Oxcart Network]

After the FAW Technical Center was split, traditional car companies such as BAIC, Geely, and Chery went north to dig up people, and the new car manufacturing forces were not willing to show weakness.

On October 30, Dr. Liu Minghui, former vice president of FAW Technology R&D Institute, vice president of the Electric Vehicle Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China, and special allowance expert of the State Council, officially joined Xiaopeng Automobile as vice president. He is in charge of the research and development of the automotive power system and reports directly to He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xiaopeng Motors.

(Liu Minghui)

Previously, although Liu Minghui had worked in traditional car companies for a long time, his resume had always been related to new energy vehicles. Prior to his tenure as Vice President of FAW Technology R&D Institute, his title was director of the Automotive Electronics Department of FAW Technology Center. In addition, 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 of the Electric Vehicle Safety Regulations Working Group (EVS) of the United Nations World Vehicle Regulation Coordination Forum (un/wp29).

Liu Minghui is very concerned about the trend of the electric vehicle industry, after the introduction of the double integral "Opinion Draft", Liu Minghui once said: "China as an important market for global new energy vehicles, the implementation of the "Opinion Draft" will affect the global new energy vehicle pattern, for example, Japan's Toyota is now actively developing pure electric vehicles, and China's new energy vehicle policy has a certain relationship." Ashkenazi companies once wanted to take the lead with phev, and the Draft Opinions will also have a significant impact on the decision-making of Ashkenazi companies. Overall, the Draft Opinions enable foreign-funded enterprises to move forward according to China's rhythm. ”

At the same time, some deficiencies in the "Opinion Draft" are pointed out, for example: "Whether the "Opinion Draft" can fully cover the two indicators of mileage and energy consumption is also debatable, for example, the longer the driving range, the higher the score, but the shared car is a major application area of electric vehicles in the future, and the shared car does not need such a long driving range." Energy consumption and quality are closely related, if the energy consumption standard is one-size-fits-all, it may lead to the development of electric SUVs, and SUVs are precisely the areas where independent car companies have absolute advantages. ”

Since 2017, the new forces of car manufacturing have made frequent moves, and many well-known car company R&D and marketing executives have switched tracks and joined the tide of Internet car manufacturing. Among the new forces of Internet car manufacturing, Xiaopeng Automobile is more frequently moved, and has been favored by many technology and management bulls in the industry. In mid-October, Dr. Gu Junli, a former core expert of Tesla's artificial intelligence dream team and the leader of autopilot autonomous driving, announced that she would join Xiaopeng Motors as vice president of autonomous driving research and development. Previously, 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.

(Text/Xu Mengya)