With only a few months until its official launch, Xiaomi’s leadership responsible for developing its electric car has undergone a rather significant change. In this case, the Asian firm announced Zhou Ying. Xiaomi Auto’s marketing manager has just resigned for personal and family reasons only seven months after joining the project.

Zhou Ying was one of the experts that Xiaomi hired after the official foundation stone of the Xiaomi Auto project took place, and previously held the position of deputy general manager at a company called SAIC-GM-Wuling Sales. Now, seven months later, it says goodbye to the Chinese firm’s most ambitious project in recent years. We do not yet know what the consequences of this will be.

We still don’t know who will replace Zhou Ying as head of marketing.

As we told you and Xiaomi has announced in an official statement, Zhou Ying resigned from this post for undisclosed personal and family reasons.. In fact, the current head of the project, Lei Jun, was the first to hear this news from Zhou himself, one of the people who worked closely with him to date.

The most curious thing is that this decision came a few hours after a very important leak that showed photos of the vehicle and some features such as the MIUI Car system that it will integrate. This certainly does not mean that this resignation is about this factbut stunning to say the least.

What we have for sure is that Xiaomi will need to find a new head of marketing department for the Xiaomi Auto project, and that’s it. may lead to a possible delay in launch, but something we cannot know today. Time will tell how all this will end.

Source | gizmochina