Xpeng Motors Zhijia team lost another general.

Today, it is reported that Liu Yilin, senior director of Xpeng Motors Autopilot Products, will leave his post. At the same time, it is said that he will join NVIDIA and join Wu Xinzhou, former vice president of Tucki Autopilot.

In this regard, Liu Yilin himself wrote that any "joining other enterprises" at present is false information.

In August, 2023, Wu Xinzhou, the former vice president of autonomous driving in Tucki, left Tucki and joined NVIDIA as the "global vice president", reporting to Huang Renxun. According to media reports, after Wu Xinzhou left his post, the responsible persons of autonomous driving, including perception, decision-making and lidar, also left one after another.

It is understood that Wu Xinzhou is the core figure of Xpeng Motors’s autonomous driving business and once served as the vice president of Xpeng Motors’s intelligent driving business. He joined Xpeng Motors in March 2019 and was fully responsible for the autonomous driving business and team management. Wu Xinzhou graduated from Tsinghua University and received his master’s and doctor’s degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Tucki, he was the head of the autonomous driving R&D team in Qualcomm.

According to Wu Xinzhou himself, he left his job because of family and various reasons, and he said that he would return to the United States. He Xiaopeng also mentioned that Wu Xinzhou expressed this intention in the second half of last year.

Wu Xinzhou’s departure is an important change for Xpeng Motors. During his stay in Xpeng Motors, he promoted the rapid development of the company’s autonomous driving technology, including self-developed intelligent driving software algorithms, and promoted Xpeng Motors to become a leading domestic autonomous driving technology enterprise. His departure may have a certain impact on Xpeng Motors’s autonomous driving business.