---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-023744"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PEVM"
cik: "0001879848"
company_name: "PHOENIX MOTOR INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T13:29:00.757109+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Phoenix Motor appoints John Walsh as President and PhoenixEV CEO

## Summary
- Walsh, 59, brings over 35 years of transit and e-mobility leadership experience.
- He previously served as President of EO Charging Americas and CCO of Proterra Inc.
- Appointment effective August 11, 2025; he also becomes CEO of subsidiary PhoenixEV.
- Parent company CEO Xiaofeng Denton Peng continues as Chairman and CEO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-023744
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PEVM
- cik: 0001879848
- company_name: PHOENIX MOTOR INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1879848/000164117225023744/0001641172-25-023744-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1879848/000164117225023744/form8-k.htm

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