As the most concerned model in the automobile industry in the fourth quarter, the day when BYD Equation Leopard meets consumers is getting closer and closer. In addition to tough guy modeling, luxury configuration and super off-road capability, the first ride of Huawei Gankun Zhijia 3.0 is also a full selling point.
As the world leader in new energy vehicles, BYD has repeatedly publicly stated that the second half of new energy vehicles is intelligent, and the intelligent driving system is the top priority. To this end, BYD has set up a team of intelligent driving R&D engineers with more than 4,000 people, and has prepared 100 billion yuan of R&D expenses. Through the intelligent innovation platform of the Eye of God, it has formulated a strategic plan of "walking on two legs", which is not only firm and independent, but also pays attention to openness and integration, and ensures that BYD models have super intelligent driving competitiveness in parallel.
On August 27th, BYD Equation Leopard and Huawei Gankun Zhijia signed an intelligent driving cooperation agreement. The two parties will carry out in-depth joint research and development of intelligent driving for BYD Equation Leopard, and Huawei Gankun Zhijia took the lead in getting on Leopard 8. This cooperation with Huawei Gankun Zhijia will further enrich the functional module of "Eye of the God" and improve the intelligent driving level of Equation Leopard brand models.
In the second half of electric vehicles, BYD will set off a more intense storm, and the existing smart driving market structure will be rewritten.
Eye of God covers the base plate model.
BYD was the first in the industry to put forward that "the first half is electrified and the second half is intelligent". Under the cliff-like leading edge of monthly sales of more than 500,000 vehicles, the world’s largest new energy vehicle company began to March in the direction of equal rights and intelligence in science and technology.
At this stage, BYD adopts the intelligent driving strategy of self-research and multi-suppliers. The overall intelligent driving scheme is based on BYD, supplemented by several core suppliers. The advantage of this practice is to ensure that the "soul" is dominant and the "body" is not out of touch.
In July last year, BYD officially released a full-stack self-developed high-level intelligent driving assistance system-Eye of God. Different from the single intelligent driving function of friends, the Eye of God, as an intelligent innovation platform, has been iterated to BAS 3.0+ human driving assistance, and adopted an end-to-end model architecture. In addition to the conventional auxiliary driving functions such as automatic parking, high-speed navigation and city navigation, BYD’s unique advantages in vehicle intelligence are also integrated, such as black technologies such as easy four-way parking and easy three-way parking, as well as subversive technologies such as stable control of high-speed puncture and expansion based on the ability of unmanned elk.
At present, the high-level intelligent driving system of the Eye of God has been installed in the 2024 Han EV, Tengshi Z9GT and other models, and the L2 intelligent driving capacity has exceeded 3.5 million, and the intelligent driving data base ranks first in the world. In addition, BYD has also obtained the first conditional automatic driving (L3 level) test license for high-speed sections in China, and is the first car company in China to obtain L3 access.
Obviously, the strength of BYD’s Eye of God has exceeded the expectations of the industry, and its unique development path has laid a solid foundation for low-cost Pratt & Whitney. Looking back at the original road of super hybrid DM technology promotion, it is conceivable that in time, the Eye of God will become the standard of BYD models.
Earlier, Zhang Zhuo, general manager of BYD Ocean Network, said in an interview that it was necessary to build a car with BYD Zhijia within 150,000 yuan, and mass production would be carried out as soon as it was released. But whatever BYD wants to do, now it seems that there is really nothing unsuccessful!
Huawei’s work on Kunzhi is by no means a simple "takenism"
Previously, Huawei created the "Four Boundaries" with Cyrus, BAIC, Chery and Jianghuai Automobile with the attitude of "support", but compared with BYD’s industry position, the accumulation of technologies such as Sandian, and the far-ahead sales volume, huge user groups and rich data resources, it is not the same. This is a real "equal" deep cooperation. One is a world-class new energy vehicle enterprise, and the other is a world-leading intelligent driving technology enterprise, which truly realizes the perfect integration of "body" and "soul" and presents a magnificent picture of "together, it is China automobile".
The "one-sided" discourse power that the industry is worried about will not happen. Li Yunfei, general manager of brand and public relations of BYD Group, stressed, "In the future, new models of Equation Leopard brand will also be developed with Huawei." BYD’s concept of openness and integration will be fully demonstrated in this cooperation. BYD Equation Leopard and Huawei Gankun Zhijia jointly developed the world’s first hard-core exclusive intelligent driving scheme, which combined the advanced technologies of both parties in the field of intelligent driving and achieved remarkable improvement in safety, comfort and convenience. For example, Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving ADS 3.0 system realizes the end-to-end network architecture with safety priority, supports higher braking speed and shorter braking distance, and effectively improves the safety during driving. At the same time, the system also supports the whole scene of "parking space to parking space", and the whole vehicle can independently deal with various complex scenes, providing users with a more convenient and comfortable driving experience. The unlisted Leopard 8 has become the only hard-core off-road vehicle in China that can be a city NOA.
Huawei’s blessing Leopard 8 in Gankun is by no means a simple use in the eyes of ordinary people. Its core is the deep binding cooperation for Leopard 8 based on the intelligent innovation platform of the Eye of God, just like Li Yunfei emphasized "developing together". For example, the body weight of Huawei Gankun 3.0 is 2.32 tons, which is 2.59 tons, while Leopard 8 is about 3.305 tons. How can a city NOA be realized without special customization based on the data base of Leopard 8?
Join forces to rewrite the pattern of intelligent driving
The big names in the automobile circle are well aware that the cooperation between BYD and Huawei began with Leopard 8, but it will never stop at the brand Equation Leopard, and the subsequent technical extension may be deeper than we thought. At the signing ceremony, Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, and Xu Zhijun, rotating chairman of Huawei, personally attended the witness. Will the level of cooperation be low?
First of all, Huawei has profound technical accumulation in intelligent driving system, artificial intelligence algorithm and sensor technology, and BYD has rich experience in vehicle manufacturing, electrification technology and automobile engineering. The cooperation between the two parties can accelerate the research and development process of intelligent driving technology, promote new breakthroughs in key technical fields such as environmental awareness, decision-making algorithm and control execution, and provide more accurate, efficient and reliable intelligent driving solutions for the industry. This technology integration and collaborative innovation will bring new ideas and methods for the application of intelligent driving technology, and improve the intelligent level and overall performance of automobiles.
Secondly, the cooperation between BYD and Huawei will promote the upgrading and reconstruction of the entire automobile industry chain, prompting some automobile companies to speed up the pace of cooperation with technology companies, so as to improve their technical level in the field of intelligent driving and avoid being eliminated in the second half of intelligence; Sensor suppliers, chip manufacturers, software developers and other enterprises will also strengthen cooperation with car companies to provide more customized and integrated solutions, which will help to form a more complete smart car industry chain.
More importantly, the development of intelligent driving technology needs to establish perfect industry standards and norms to ensure the safety, reliability and interoperability of technology. BYD and Huawei’s practical experience in cooperation mode, technical architecture and data management in the field of smart driving has prompted both parties to jointly participate in the formulation and improvement of industry standards, promote the standardization and unification of technology standards in smart driving industry, promote the integration of industry standards with the international community, and improve China’s voice in the international arena.
Conclusion:
BYD is one of the largest new energy automobile companies in the world, and Huawei is the world’s leading intelligent driving solution provider. The cooperation between BYD and Huawei will enhance the competitiveness of China automobile brands in the field of intelligent driving. This will not only help domestic cars compete with international brands in the domestic market, but also provide strong support for China automobile enterprises to enter the international market and promote the international development of China automobile industry..
