Asia Tech Wire (Oct 10) -- Chinese electric car maker Xpeng has promoted two executives to Vice President.

Xpeng announced on Thursday that it promoted Liyun Li and Yeqing Zheng to vice president of the company.

Li joins Xpeng in 2019 as Xpeng's head of autonomous driving, while Zheng joins Xpeng in 2020 as Xpeng's international general counsel and compliance officer.