LONDON, Jan. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ECARX Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ECX) (“ECARX” or the “Company”), a global mobility tech provider, today announced the appointment of Mr. Tan Su as a director of the Company, effective on January 5, 2024, to replace Mr. Zhenyu Li, who has tendered his resignation as a director of the Company effective on the same day due to personal reasons.

Mr. Su has served as general manager of Baidu’s Apollo Intelligent Automobile Department since 2023 and is fully responsible for the implementation of Baidu’s automotive intelligence strategy and coordinating and managing multiple businesses, including intelligent driving, cockpit-driving integration, and intelligent cabin. Prior to that, Mr. Su has held leadership positions in various businesses of Baidu since 2013, including Baidu Maps and Baidu Intelligent Driving Group, where he successively served as the general manager of Baidu's Internet of Vehicles Department and Intelligent Driving Department. Before joining Baidu, Mr. Su worked as a R&D engineer at ESRI China (Beijing) Co., Ltd. from 2004 to 2007 and founded and managed an online maps startup company from 2007 to 2013. Mr. Su received a BS in geographic information systems from Wuhan University in 2004 and is currently attending an EMBA program at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University.

About ECARX

ECARX (Nasdaq: ECX) is a global automotive technology provider with the capabilities to deliver turnkey solutions for next-generation smart vehicles, from the system on a chip (SoC), to central computing platforms, and software. As automakers develop new electric vehicle architectures from the ground up, ECARX is developing full-stack solutions to enhance the user experience, while reducing complexity and cost.

Founded in 2017 and listed on the Nasdaq in 2022, ECARX now has over 2,000 employees based in 11 major locations in China, UK, USA, Sweden, Germany and Malaysia. The co-founders are two automotive entrepreneurs, Chairman and CEO Ziyu Shen, and Eric Li (Li Shufu), who is also the founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group — with ownership interests in global brands including Lotus, Lynk & Co, Polestar, Smart, and Volvo Cars. ECARX also works with other well-known automakers, including FAW and Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën. To date, ECARX products can be found in over 5.6 million vehicles worldwide.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains statements that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s beliefs and expectations as well as on assumptions made by and data currently available to management, appear in a number of places throughout this document and include statements regarding, amongst other things, results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the industry in which we operate. The use of words “expects”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “estimates”, “predicts”, “believes”, “should”, “potential”, “may”, “preliminary”, “forecast”, “objective”, “plan”, or “target”, and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to statements regarding our intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies, future market conditions or economic performance and developments in the capital and credit markets and expected future financial performance, and the markets in which we operate.

For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, see ECARX’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ECARX undertakes no obligation to update or revise and forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law.

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ir@ecarxgroup.com

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