Chinese 'Musks' drive the real Musk mad in the race for EV pole position
He sold his internet company for billions of dollars and then bet on an electric vehicle (EV) start-up, posting about it frequently on social media. He owns shares of Tesla, drives its cars and is building a factory in China. But he's not Elon Musk. Instead, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng is the target of Musk's ire, and his company, Xpeng Motors, is at the centre of separate trade-secrets lawsuits filed by Tesla and Apple. Tesla accused one of its ex-engineers of stealing confidential autopilot information before bolting to a job at XPeng, where He is chairman. He, 41, called the lawsuit "questionable" in a WeChat post on Friday. The accusations came eight months after one of Apple's ex-employees was charged with trying to take sensitive robocar secrets to a new job with XPeng. The Chinese carmaker hasn't been accused of wrongdoing by Apple or Tesla. In an interview at his Guangzhou campus, which features a three-storey slide, He spoke with disdain about workers who steal intellec...
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