In 2021, if you use two keywords to summarize the development trend of China's automobile industry, it must be "new energy" and "intelligence". Together, the two driving forces drive the rapid development of new cars.
In terms of new energy, according to the data of the Federation of Passenger Vehicles, the penetration rate of new energy passenger vehicles in the whole country in 2021 was 15.7%, an increase of nearly 10 percentage points compared with 2020, and the growth far exceeded expectations. In terms of intelligence, the fields of intelligent cockpit and automatic driving have become the core focus of competition among car companies. According to the China Automobile Association, the proportion of car sales equipped with L2 and above intelligent driving functions in China has risen from 15% in 2020 to 25.2% in September 2021.
Along with intelligence, there is no doubt that software is becoming more and more important for cars, and McKinsey forecasts show that the automotive software market is expected to grow from $20 billion in 2020 to $50 billion in 2030. At the same time as the rapid growth of the market scale, the lack of core and soul is still an unspeakable pain in China's automobile industry. The "soul" of automotive intelligence: the operating system, has received more extensive attention from top to bottom at the national and industrial levels.
Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the Third Global New Energy and Intelligent Vehicle Supply Chain Innovation Conference in October 2021, "China's auto market is so big that it cannot do without its own operating system, and it is imperative to build an independent, controllable, open source and open automotive operating system." ”
In a high-end dialogue program with Professor Zhao Fuquan of Tsinghua University, Zhang Chunhui, co-CEO of Zebra Zhixing, expressed that "China is at the forefront of the world in many aspects of smart cars, especially at the level of the entire city to systematically think and explore vehicle-road coordination. There is no reason why Chinese companies should not develop their own car operating systems. ”
(Professor Zhao Fuquan of Tsinghua University interviewed Zhang Chunhui, co-CEO of Zebra Zhixing)
"But building a car operating system can't be cultivated in a greenhouse, nor can it be built behind closed doors." After the top-level design, the local content can be implemented by different participants separately, and the iterative optimization method is used to continuously speak. Zhang Chunhui also mentioned.
Under the policy guidance of the national development of independent automobile operating systems and under the guidance of the technical concept of industrial openness and integration, Zebra Zhixing will firmly move forward in 2021 and make multi-point breakthroughs.
Actively respond to the national strategic planning and achieve a number of landmark results
Zebra Zhixing's self-developed AliOS is a smart car operating system that started early in China and has a leading number of technologies and mass production landings, Zebra Zhixing takes AliOS as the core technology foundation, integrates into the national scientific and technological innovation strategy, and actively climbs the commanding heights of the industry in the construction of standards. At present, Zebra Zhixing has led and participated in the construction of nearly 10 national standards for operating system and vehicle networking information security, and the "Safety Requirements and Test Methods for Vehicle Operating System" has been successfully established in the IEEE of the International Standards Association.
AliOS has twice received major special support from the national nuclear high-tech base, and on behalf of the major achievements of the nuclear high-tech foundation, it appeared at the national "13th Five-Year Plan" scientific and technological innovation achievement exhibition, and was reviewed by the party and the state, industry and users.
(AliOS debuted at the national "13th Five-Year Plan" scientific and technological innovation achievement exhibition)
Zebra Zhixing is also in line with China's economic "bow and arrow" spatial development strategy, in the Yangtze River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Bohai Rim and other new highlands of the automotive industry to complete the layout, and grow together with industry partners, has initially formed a development pattern of seven cities and nine places in the five major urban agglomerations.
In the Yangtze River Delta, we will continue to empower local car companies such as Shanghai and Hefei to help smart cities and Shanghai's new online economy. Signed a strategic cooperation with Jinqiao City Sub-Center to jointly promote urban smart travel; Signed a contract with Shanghai People's Radio to serve Shanghai's transportation and citizens' travel with digital technology, and help Shanghai build a smart city; East China Operation Headquarters landed in Hefei Economic Development Zone to make up for Hefei's operating system software support in the intelligent industry chain.
(Zebra Chi Heng CMO Chengli (fourth from left) was invited to attend the signing ceremony of Jinqiao Sub-Center)
The development of Zebra Zhixing has been praised and recognized by the government, customers, media and other parties. Self-developed AliOS was selected into the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of New Energy Automobile Industry in Zhejiang Province"; Zebra Smart Walk was awarded the Best Quality Software Supplier of 2021 by Volkswagen China; KPMG's 4th China Top 50 Automotive Technology Companies; Many media and industry awards, such as the Lingxuan Award, the Forward-looking Technology and Benchmarking Product Award, etc.
Entering the cockpit era, the OS trilogy has made progress in stages
In 2021, Zebra Zhixing accelerated the "OS Trilogy Strategy" and realized the mass production of smart cockpit OS, taking a solid step towards the vehicle's intelligent OS.
In terms of intelligent cockpit, the Zebra Roselle intelligent cockpit system launched based on AliOS is the first mass-produced multi-core heterogeneous fusion intelligent cockpit system in China, which has the ability of cross-domain integration and brings a new experience of smart and boundless intelligent cockpit. Roselle is also leading the industry, achieving mass production and launch of new models of SAIC Passenger Car Roewe and MG brands.
At the same time, Zebra Zhixing, together with the high-end electric vehicle brand Zhiji, adopts a new concept to create an immersive cockpit system with a sense of "water" interaction and boundless flexibility - IMOS. The design of the system won the German Red Dot Design Award 2021.
(IMOS wins German Red Dot Design Award)
Taking a solid step towards the vehicle intelligent OS, we successfully developed the core of the AliOS intelligent driving system and obtained the ASIL-D certification of the highest level of functional safety of TUV Rheinland ISO 26262 products. Officially available in 2022, it will be the first free kernel in the industry to pass the security certification.
While deeply cultivating the automotive operating system, Zebra Zhixing is committed to promoting the coordinated development of production, education and research, and shaping the industrial ecology. At the 2021 Yunqi Conference, Zebra Zhixing and experts and scholars from top institutions in the industry such as the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China jointly launched the "New Automotive Yunqi Laboratory". It also established the "New Auto Core Alliance" with 10 intelligent driving chip companies such as Qualcomm, NXP, Horizon, and Xinchi Technology.
Help the industrial digital transformation cooperation map to add more than 1 automobile brand
"Digitalization" is the cornerstone of "intelligence". Zebra Zhixing not only empowers the intelligentization of automobiles with the operating system, but also takes the automobile as the carrier and takes the user as the center, and is committed to realizing the comprehensive online interconnection and service aggregation of people, vehicles, roads and homes, and helping the digital transformation of the automobile and transportation industries.
In industrial digitalization, based on the underlying business accumulation, Alibaba Group integrates the ecological and big data capabilities of Alibaba Group to provide full-link-full-lifecycle digital solutions covering service ecology, digital marketing, test drives, insurance, hitchhiking, used cars and other fields. In the car voice, based on the Tianpu AI technology platform, it realizes the integration of Dharma Academy, Tmall Genie and Zebra Sanzhi, and outputs the industry's leading in-vehicle voice assistant solution. In digital transportation, the launch of unmanned shuttles, smart parking, smart logistics, intelligent transportation cloud and other solutions is blossoming in Guangdong, Anhui, Shanghai and other places.
With the blessing of leading technology and rich ecology, Zebra Zhixing has won the favor of more car companies in 2021, and has reached strategic cooperative relations with Chery Lion and FAW-Volkswagen Jetta brands to jointly explore the needs of the new generation of users and create intelligent cockpit products. We have made a number of breakthroughs from 0 to 1 in innovative businesses such as industrial digitalization and digital transportation. It has established cooperative relations with more than 10 industry-leading car companies such as Audi, Dongfeng Nissan and FAW Hongqi.
(Zebra Zhixing signed a strategic cooperation with FAW-Volkswagen Jetta brand)
Under the firm strategy and continuous R&D investment, Zebra Zhixing achieved doubling its performance growth in 2021, explored the road, verified the model, reached the strategic position anchored after the strategic restructuring of the new Zebra, and obtained a joint capital increase of 3 billion yuan from the four major shareholders of Alibaba Group, SAIC Group, SDIC China Merchants and Yunfeng Fund, which ranked among the top 10 domestic financing in the field of intelligent vehicles and automotive technology in 2021.
(Signing Ceremony of the Joint Capital Increase of the Four Major Shareholders of SDIC China Merchants, Alibaba Group, SAIC Motor Group and Yunfeng Fund)
In 2022, Zebra continued to firmly study the road and forged ahead through thorns and thorns
In 2022, the pace of China's automobile intelligence will be faster, "online" will become the standard attribute of new cars, and "intelligence" will become the core concern of users. The national "14th Five-Year Plan" software and information technology service industry development plan will be officially implemented, and the top-level design will increase the emphasis on operating systems and software definition. The scale of China's automotive market, new technologies, and the government's deep thinking about digital cities are at the forefront of the world, providing unprecedented opportunities for the development of smart cars and OS.
In the new year, under the guidance of the national industrial policy, Zebra Zhixing will work together with customers and ecological partners, with OS+ chip + AI as the base, continue to increase investment in research and development of core technologies, create a new generation of intelligent car operating system with Chinese characteristics and future experience, provide deep intelligence for cars with cabin driving integration and three wisdom integration, continue to achieve new technology landing, bring leading products to customers, and let users get new experiences.