Changan Automobile and Huawei initiated the establishment of "Introduction", and then welcome new progress.
On July 29, Cialis announced that it plans to invest in Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and the company will start to negotiate with Yinwang and its shareholders to join the investment in Yinwang, and jointly support Yinwang to become a world-class leader in the automotive intelligent driving system and components industry, and become an open platform for serving the automotive industry.
Since November 25, 2023, Changan Automobile and Huawei officially announced their plans to establish a new company to focus on the R&D, production, sales and service of intelligent driving systems and incremental components of intelligent networked vehicles. Plan a bigger game.
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Chang'an and Huawei support the overall situation of "attracting hope".
The global automotive industry is in the midst of a great change unseen in a century, and a wave of technological revolution characterized by "electrification" and "intelligence" is sweeping, especially intelligence, which is the second half of this round of automobile revolution, and the key to winning the second half is to occupy the commanding heights of core technology.
It is against this background that "Introduction" is established. The two companies initiated and established, Changan Automobile and Huawei, are both "the light of domestic products" and "the great ones who cherish the country", not limited to the interests of the two companies' own development, so they are particularly clear in the cooperation agreement: open equity to investors such as existing strategic partner car companies and car companies with strategic value, and become a company with diversified equity.
For a vehicle company, it is categorically impossible to share the core technology with peers without a large enough pattern and mind. Changan Automobile has demonstrated this commendable pattern with practical actions.
Why is Changan Automobile willing to do this? Because Changan Automobile is well aware that in the second half of the intelligent competition, full of uncertainty, the core technology is not a vehicle enterprise relying on its own strength can be a big package, especially the original top-down zero relationship, has become outdated. In the past, there was a stable chain or tower-like structure between the whole zeros, and the vehicle enterprise was the core; From now to the future, the whole zeros become unstable in a "parallelogram" state, which is a network fusion structure. Therefore, only by establishing an inseparable relationship between vehicle enterprises and core technology enterprises can they form the greatest joint force to overcome difficulties together.
Why did Changan Automobile dare to do this? Changan Automobile's 40-year car-making accumulation is the biggest confidence. At present, Changan Automobile has chosen a multi-route development model, strengthened cooperation with Huawei, and made every effort to increase investment in intelligent R&D. The results of intelligent mass production have been implemented rapidly, including the SDA architecture "cabin and driving integration", the intelligent driving Deepal AD developed by Deep Blue Automobile, and the upcoming digital intelligence new car Qiyuan E07, in addition, L3 autonomous vehicles have been tested on the road, ranking first in the industry in terms of patent disclosure in the field of intelligence in 2023.
In short, Changan's technical reserves in intelligence are at the top of the industry, which is enough to play a leading role in technology research and development with Huawei in the new company.
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The Changan model promotes the intelligent development of China's automobiles
The cooperation between Changan Automobile and Huawei is the first of its kind in the history of the world's automobiles, and can be called the "Changan Model", and the key to the success of this model depends on two points. The first point is that Changan Automobile itself must have hard power and sufficient resource endowment, technology, brand, products, and sales, so that partners can respect and make both parties win-win.
At present, Changan Automobile wants to have technology, products, sales, brand, and reputation, and is the most ideal partner for Huawei and other enterprises.
Since 1984, Changan Automobile has produced the first batch of small cars in China and officially entered the automotive field, and as of 2023, it has gained the trust and recognition of 25 million users. In January ~ June this year, the cumulative sales of Changan Automobile Group exceeded 1.334 million units, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%, the sales volume of Changan Chinese brand passenger cars was 821,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 7.0%, the sales volume of self-owned brand new energy vehicles was 299,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 69.9%, and the overseas sales of self-owned brands were 203,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 74.8%.
In terms of R&D strength, Changan Automobile has established 17 science and technology companies, built a number of national laboratories, mastered 2,251 key technologies such as natural interaction, high-end intelligent driving, and three-electric research and testing, and ranked first in the industry for 7 consecutive 14 years in the evaluation of the National Enterprise Technology Center. Changan Automobile has established a global collaborative R&D pattern of "six countries and ten regions" with its own focus in Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai, Dingzhou, Hebei, Hefei, Anhui, Turin, Italy, Yokohama, Japan, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Detroit, United States, and Munich, Germany, as well as technical R&D teams of more than 18,000 people from 30 countries and regions around the world.
In terms of products and brands, the three major brands of Changan Qiyuan, Shenlan Automobile and AVATR have all launched new digital and intelligent vehicles with a high level of intelligence, and have established their own brand position in the industry.
The second point is that the cooperation with partners has been fully implemented. At present, Changan is the most open among Chinese auto companies, and its cooperation with Huawei is also comprehensive. In terms of models, Deep Blue S07, the first model equipped with Huawei's Qiankun intelligent driving, has been launched, and AVATR is the only brand that is equipped with HI Huawei's full-stack intelligent car solution as standard.
More importantly, Changan Automobile has also deepened cooperation with Huawei to build the world's leading smart factory "model room", Changan + Huawei's customized factory-wide intelligence, the industry's widest range of connections (more than 12,000 devices wirelessly connected), the highest connection rate (5G + Wifi6 + IP + light, up to 1 million points per second) of the factory, more than 20T of manufacturing data per year to form a huge database, the factory has the ability to self-learn, complete energy consumption optimization, and make self-judgment in production decisions.
It can be said that the advanced technology and production process jointly developed by Changan Automobile and Huawei will empower other partners to promote the intelligent development of China's automobiles.
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Changan is expected to become a leader in smart cars in China
In the new automobile era, enterprises cannot be spectators, nor can they be imitators and followers, but can only be leaders. Only a leader can obtain risks and returns, and can achieve stability and long-term success.
With the breakthrough of a series of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, Changan Automobile believes that in the new automobile era, products will be transformed to product + service + ecology; Automobiles will become platform-based products, car companies will become platform-based enterprises, and the automobile industry will become platform-based industries.
Judging from the speed and effectiveness of Changan Automobile's own transformation and upgrading, it is already a leader in the field of automotive intelligence. On the one hand, Changan Automobile has accelerated its transformation and continued to deepen its three major plans. The first is the new energy "Shangri-La" plan, which released Changan Qiyuan, a new digital and intelligent car, and formed three major intelligent electric brand layouts with AVATR and Deep Blue; Promote the conversion of traditional production capacity to new energy production capacity and build Chang'an Digital Intelligence Factory, and the first overseas new energy manufacturing base is under construction. The second is the intelligent "Beidou Tianshu" plan, which promotes the establishment of a new joint venture between Changan Automobile and Huawei to build a public platform for intelligent technology in the automotive industry. Independently developed a new SDA platform architecture, using the world's leading central ring network architecture, in the second half of the year will be equipped with Changan Qiyuan E07 to be launched. The third is the international "inclusive of all rivers" plan, based on China, expanding the five major regions of the world, forming a "1+5+2" global layout; New energy vehicles entered the Thailand market, and the price of a single vehicle was 50% higher than that in China.
On the other hand, Changan Automobile's three major smart electric brands, Changan Qiyuan, AVATR and Shenlan Automobile, have cross-border cooperation with IT/ICT companies such as Huawei, learning from others' strengths, and are also accelerating their own transformation, and have performed well in their respective market segments.
From the perspective of development trend, Changan is expected to become the leader of China's smart cars and grow into a world-class automobile company.
A good start is half the battle. At present, China is moving from a big automobile country to an automobile power, and the times call for a real person in charge to shoulder the heavy responsibility of strengthening the country and leading the entire industry to move forward.
Text: Zhang Zhongyue Editor: Pang Guoxia Layout: Wang Kun
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