Nio’s head of intelligent driving product and experience, Harry Wong, has resigned from the Chinese electric-vehicle maker three years after joining.
According to the local outlet ChinaEVhome, the executive will join autonomous driving startup Momenta as vice president, overseeing its product business.
Founded in 2016, Shanghai-based Momenta develops autonomous driving software and counts SAIC, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz among its partners.
Mercedes was the first global carmaker to invest in the startup back in 2017, making it a key supplier to premium brands.
BMW plans to feature Momenta’s technology in its Neue Klasse lineup starting with the iX3 SUV in 2026, while Audi uses the system in its locally developed electric E5 Sportback, launched in September.
Wong joined Nio in 2022 as senior director reporting directly to founder and Chief Executive Officer William Li.
He later rose to lead the company’s intelligent driving product experience, coordinating work on advanced driver-assistance systems and new safety features.
The executive played a central role in developing the brand’s “Nio World Model” (NWM), a multimodal autoregressive system that integrates visual, linguistic, spatial and temporal data for real-time reasoning.
The EV maker began rolling out the first version of NWM in June on vehicles built on its new Cedar operating system.
He also oversaw the launch of key safety functions, according to the report.
These include the “GOA” emergency braking system, mass-produced in January 2024, which Nio says prevents 3,000 to 4,000 collisions per month, and the world’s first large-model-enhanced automatic emergency braking feature, which entered production in July.
Last May, Harry Wong introduced externally the first version of NWM publicly at the launch of revamped ES6 and EC6 models.
Before joining the Shanghai-based EV maker, Wong was director of autonomous driving products at rival XPeng, where he worked on its Navigation Guided Pilot system and memory parking function.
Just a day earlier, Nicola Marsala, head of the company’s Southern European region, also announced his departure from the company.
Marsala joined the EV maker in early 2023 to spearhead its entry into Italy and later served as managing director for the region covering Spain, Portugal and Greece, according to his LinkedIn profile.
