The three co founders of Xiaopeng Motors, Xia Heng, He Tao, and Yang Chunlei, have all withdrawn from the core management team.
On March 13th, according to the official website of Xiaopeng Motors, "Team Member Information" shows that the co founders of the company, Xia Heng and He Tao, have changed from being members of the "Core Management Team" to "Lifetime Honorary" members. There are currently three core team members of Xiaopeng Motors, namely Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng, President Wang Fengying, and Vice Chairman and Co President Gu Hongdi.
Prior to this, Xia Heng and He Tao were both core team members, with Xia Heng as co-founder and co-president, and He Tao as co-founder and senior vice president.
Regarding the rumors of Xia Heng and He Tao withdrawing from the company, Xiaopeng Motors responded to the media by stating that co founders Xia Heng and He Tao will continue to support the company's development as lifelong honorary advisors to Xiaopeng Motors.
At this point, Xia Heng, He Tao, and Yang Chunlei, the initial three founders of Xiaopeng Motors, have all withdrawn from the company's core management team.
According to the official WeChat account of Xiaopeng Motors, in January 2016, Xiaopeng Motors held its first annual meeting, and founder Xia Heng delivered a speech at the 2015 annual meeting. In his speech, he expressed his gratitude to the two earliest partners, He Tao and Yang Chunlei, "who came out with me in the first place with trust, laying the foundation of the three electric and one screen. He Tao is bold in thinking and doing things, with strong execution ability; Chunlei has excellent technology and rigorous engineering ideas; they have provided me with good complementarity."
And He Xiaopeng is the core investor of Xiaopeng Motors. At the beginning of its establishment, Xiaopeng Auto was invested by many Internet giants such as He Xiaopeng, the founder of UC, Li Xueling, the founder of YY, Fu Sheng, CEO of Cheetah Mobile, and many well-known venture capital institutions and listed companies.
On August 29, 2017, Xiaopeng Motors announced that He Xiaopeng had officially joined Xiaopeng Motors as chairman. Yang Chunlei also left Xiaopeng Motors in this year.
Starting from the end of 2022, Xiaopeng Motors embarked on a prolonged organizational change, with several core executives, including the founding team, leaving Xiaopeng one after another. Starting from January 30, 2023, Wang Fengying, the "Iron Lady" from Great Wall Motors, will serve as the President of Xiaopeng Motors, fully responsible for product planning and sales service system.
In 2024, organizational restructuring remains the top priority for Xiaopeng Motors. In a recent commencement letter, He Xiaopeng said, "This year is the second year of Xiaopeng's' second entrepreneurship from 1 to 2 ', as well as the second year of organizational adjustment. Personally, I will focus on enhancing the abilities of grassroots cadres and enterprise processes in the enterprise, pursuing the improvement of management capabilities and overall business efficiency."
He proposed to "let cadres who dare to fight and can fight lead troops to the field" and demanded that cadres "not only listen to reports, but must penetrate multiple layers to understand the truth, and must go deep into the front line to listen to the gunfire". "Guided by internal and external customer experience, take the lead in breaking departmental walls, demolishing high chimneys, not sacrificing upstream and downstream for single interests, nor pursuing superficial harmony".
In February of this year, Xiaopeng Automobile's sales performance experienced a significant decline again, with a total of 4545 new cars delivered, a year-on-year decrease of 24.38% and a month on month decrease of 44.91%. Among them, the Xiaopeng X9 delivered 1448 units and nearly 4000 units were delivered within two months of its launch.