Xiaomi has acquired almost all the top engineers from BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche (2 photos)

A list of all the employees the Chinese have poached is available online. In short: Xiaomi now has a dream team for electric car production. The company is full of people who previously made top-end cars in Europe.





Who's on board:

— Fabian Schmolz-Obermaier: worked on the Porsche 992 GT3 RS;

— Julien Koeff: former Mercedes-Benz interior designer;

— Jakob Lukosch: former Gaggenau;

— Jean-Arthur Madelin: designed the Mercedes-Benz Vision GT Concept;

— Rudolf Dittrich: worked on the BMW M4 GT3;

— Liu Taoqing: worked on the BMW 5 Series;

— Simon Schmitt: powertrains at BMW;

— Dusan Sarac: Skoda Enyaq iV platform;

— Hubert Hügle: former Mercedes-AMG;

— Kai Langer: worked on the BMW i8;

— Klaus-Dieter Groll: designed the BMW iX3.