Future Mobility digs Google Daimler to develop self-driving cars

In March of this year, Future Mobility dug up the BMW i-series R&D chief engineer Carsten Breitfeld as CEO. On April 19th, the electric car company once again dug up the three executives of the BMW i series R&D team.

On May 4th, according to foreign media reports, the company Moto, which was founded by Tencent and other companies, has already digged autonomous driving talents from Google and Daimler to develop autonomous vehicles.

According to people familiar with the matter, Harmony has been hiring the chief designer WolframLuchner from the autopilot division of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and has hired Daimler's North American Autopilot R&D Director from Daimler. Luca Delgrossi.

Daniel Kirchert, Chief Marketing Officer of Harmony Futeng, confirmed the above-mentioned digging action. He also confirmed that Harmony Futeng has plucked other automotive talents from Tesla and BMW.

Dai Lei officially joined Harmony Futeng as the chief marketing officer last week. Dai Lei was previously the head of the Infiniti China region of Nissan's luxury car brand. Dai Lei said that the goal of Harmony Futeng is to produce luxury cars in China, and then sell them in China, Europe and the United States. He refused to disclose when the company's cars will start production.

As cars become more dependent on digital technology, technology companies are aggressively entering the automotive arena. Alibaba, Baidu, etc. have invested in the establishment of automobile joint ventures. Last year, Tencent established a joint venture with Hon Hai Precision, a car dealer, China Harmony New Energy Vehicle Holdings, to build an electric moped.