During the BYD 2022 annual report communication meeting, Chairman Wang Chuanfu shared his perspective on autonomous driving in a clear and honest manner. He dismissed unmanned driving as impractical and misleading, emphasizing that advanced assisted driving is the way forward for future development.
Founded in 2015, Horizon Robotics has already made a name for itself as a leading provider of energy-efficient computing solutions for consumer vehicles in China.
Tesla is planning a grand production capacity for its future low-priced model. "The new model will be a smaller version of the Model Y," an insider said, "and Tesla is planning an annual production capacity of up to four million vehicles."
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) technology company Haomo.ai announced that it will release the autonomous driving generative model "DriveGPT" on April 11.
Lawrence Steyn has left his position as CFO of self-driving startup Pony.ai in early March. Haojun Wang, one of the company's founding members, will be taking over as CFO.
Pony.ai, a Chinese automated driving start-up, announced on March 22 that it has reached a strategic cooperation with leading unmanned vehicle developer Neolix in the field of unmanned distribution in China.
On March 17th, Baidu's Apollo Go was allowed to carry out a demonstration of its unmanned automated driving service in Beijing. This is the first time in the world that unmanned motor vehicles have been implemented in a capital city. So far, Apollo Go has started unmanned automated driving travel services in Beijing, Wuhan and Chongqing.
"Xiaomi Auto has made more progress than expected. Recently, the winter test has been finished and we expect to mass-produce within the first half of the next year," said Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, at a meeting on March 5.
Chen Junbo, the former head of algorithm at the Alibaba-backed DAMO Academy, has left his post to start a new business in the outdoor cleaning robots field.
He Xiaopeng, chairman of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng, who was elected as a delegate for China's "Two Sessions" for the first time, put forward suggestions on accelerating the systematic guarantee of autonomous driving.
Plus, a self-driving truck company, may initiate its US listing plan again by merging its Chinese business into Full Truck Alliance, a digital freight platform. The official announcement will be unveiled in March this year.
Huawei’s Smart Car Solution Business Units saw a number of personnel adjustments recently. Wang Jun, COO of the business unit and president of the intelligent driving solution product line has been suspended.
Li Xiang, the CEO of Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto, released a letter to all employees on January 28, mentioning that the company expects to become the global leader in the artificial intelligence industry in 2030.
Shenzhen-based drone maker DJI denied a report claiming that the company's automotive system department has been split to establish a new company called Shenzhen Zhuoyu Technology Co., Ltd.
An advanced driver-assistance system has turned out to be a must-have for car buyers, as eight out of 10 are willing to pay for the feature, said Zhang Kai, the chairman of autonomous driving company Haomo.AI, at the firm's seventh AI Day event held on January 5.
Baidu announced on December 26 a major expansion of its commercialized fully driverless robotaxi service in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The move triples the size of its operation areas, increases the number of robotaxis in service and expands the system's operation times to include key evening hours.
TuSimple, an autonomous driving technology company, has announced a restructuring plan which will impact approximately 350 of its employees, or 25% of the workforce, while 80% of the remaining approximately 1,100 employees are in R&D functions.
The competitive field of autonomous driving constantly attracts companies in various industries to transform. DeepBlue Technology, a Shanghai-based AI company, has promoted its industrial chain layout in the autonomous driving and new energy vehicle sectors.
Chinese electric vehicle firm NIO and internet giant Tencent signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shenzhen on November 28. Under the deal, the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of autonomous driving cloud technology, intelligent driving maps and digital ecology.
