Former XPeng Web middle vice normal supervisor Liu Fanfan has joined NIO as head of the navigation and placement companies division, in response to native media.
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NIO (NYSE: NIO) seems to be attracting a variety of XPeng (NYSE: XPEV) expertise, and the pattern continues.
Liu Fanfan, previously vice normal supervisor of XPeng’s Web middle, has joined NIO as head of its navigation and placement companies division, native media outlet LatePost reported in the present day.
Liu experiences to Zhang Lei, NIO’s vp of digital cockpit and software program improvement, and can be the pinnacle of good cockpit supply for NIO’s NT 3.0 platform fashions, in response to the report.
NIO is phasing out the NT 1.0 platform and transitioning its fashions to the NT 2.0 platform. The corporate’s sub-brand fashions, which it plans to start delivering subsequent 12 months, shall be primarily based on the next-generation NT 3.0 platform, in response to the beforehand introduced info.
Liu, who has labored for in-car navigation supplier Telenav for greater than 10 years, joined XPeng in March 2018 and was answerable for the map navigation, in-car techniques and app ecosystem enterprise on the Web middle.
Throughout his time on the firm, XPeng Web middle developed the in-car system Xmart OS, which debuted on the XPeng G3 in late 2018.
Xmart OS was upgraded to model 2.1.0 in October 2020, and launched a full-scene voice interplay function that enables management of 90 p.c of XPeng’s in-house developed functions by voice, the report famous.
XPeng’s staff expanded quickly after its Hong Kong itemizing in June 2021, rising to just about 14,000 individuals by the top of 2021, greater than twice the scale of the staff on the finish of 2020.
Nonetheless, XPeng’s staff has undergone important restructuring in 2022, with a lot of its mid-level R&D workers and executives leaving to affix NIO between final 12 months and this 12 months, the LatePost report famous.
Final April, Harry Wong, previously XPeng’s director of self-driving merchandise, formally joined NIO to take cost of the self-driving expertise.
On September 6 final 12 months, native automotive web site Xchuxing reported that the previous XPeng’s head of voice recognition, Zhao Hengyi, had left in March and he would be a part of NIO.
LatePost reported in the present day that Zhao joined NIO forward of Liu and is answerable for companies together with digital voice assistant Nomi, reporting to Ted Li, NIO’s head of product expertise.
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