[TechWeb] July 2, according to foreign media reports, on Monday, the US electric car start-up company Lucid Motors said it has hired the former vice president of production Tesla factory in Fremont, Peter Huohuodingge (Peter Hochholdinger) as manufacturing vice president, the company hopes to soon be able to put into production.
After Volkswagen had served as production executive Huohuodingge, worked for three years in Tesla, last week left the company. In the Tesla, his task is to increase production of the company's Model S luxury sedan and Model X SUV and help build a cost-effective production plan for the Model 3 cars. He is the past two years, leaving a well-known Tesla's latest executive.
Huohuodingge will lead Lucid Motors's global manufacturing operations, starting with the Arizona Casa Grande plant. In addition, he will also be responsible for engineering techniques.
In April this year, Lucid Motors also appointed former chief engineer Tesla Model S • Peter Rawlinson (Peter Rawlinson) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
In addition to Huohuodingge and Rawlinson, Tesla engineers and several other executives also joined the start-up company, they are now joined by Huohuodingge team.
Rawlinson said Huohuodingge manufacturing experience will help Lucid Motors to launch an all-electric car Lucid Air and other future models.
He said:. "We are delighted to welcome Peter to join Lucid Motors team Peter experienced and proven leadership in high-end automotive manufacturing field, we will in future models launched Lucid Air and continuing progress made in providing valuable experience to join Lucid. after Motors, Peter is authorized to create an industry-leading manufacturing processes that provide our customers the insight they need and deserve high-quality products. "
Lucid Motors Tesla former vice president and managing director Xiejia Peng (Bernard Tse) and senior Sam Ong (Sam Weng) was founded in 2007 by a former Oracle, formerly known as Atieva. The company from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund that received more than $ 1 billion in investment.
2017, Lucid Motors announced that its all-electric luxury sedan Lucid Air starts at $ 60,000 (about 410,900 yuan), its mileage is 240 miles (about 386 km). In addition, the car also has some other interesting configuration.
At that time, Lucid Motors also announced that it plans to raise $ 700 million to build the plant in Arizona to produce an all-electric car Lucid Air in 2018.
However, before more than $ 1 billion in investment, Lucid Motors encountered difficulties in raising funds needed to start construction of the plant at the end to get from Saudi Arabia. Now, the company plans to start production of its 2020 all-electric luxury sedan Lucid Air.
Currently, Tesla is working to increase production of the Model 3, Model 3 is considered critical to its long-term profitability. The company is expected to announce this week the second quarter of this year, delivery and production data.
In recent weeks, Tesla Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andy Herron Musk (Elon Musk), said the company is about to usher in a record quarterly deliveries, but they are still some obstacles to overcome.
Last week, Musk confirmed that Tesla has to create all the orders needed for this record, but the vehicle to the customer's logistics bottlenecks. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to encourage employees to "go all out" to create a new delivery record quarter. (Little Fox)