November 15, 2017, the theme focuses on 'Intelligent Network Alliance automotive industry integration status and innovation', under the guidance of Tsinghua University, Suzhou Automobile Institute, Qinghua Automobile, Qing Yan Liangyuan, Time Real Estate, Guangdong Light Industry Polytechnic jointly organized The second round of wisdom line salon was successfully held in Guangzhou.
Speaking at the keynote speech, Xia Heng, co-founder and president of Xiaopeng Automotive, made a speech on the theme of 'Xiaopeng Internet Car Road'. According to his analysis, in order to make Xiaopeng Motor have a strong competitive edge in the future, it must be carried Two engines: the first is the motorized engine, and the second is the digital engine. About autopilot, in his opinion, L4-L5 autopilot, with the current technological capabilities to achieve mass production there is a big gap between them Hope to make sense of this process of L2-L3 first. The following is a record of some of its statements.
Xiaopeng car co-founder and president Xia Heng
Choose the Internet homeopathy instead
Nowadays this time is a very interesting and very grand era, and many interesting things are happening, such as using the Internet to create mobile phones. However, in 2014, we were still thinking about whether Internet thinking can make cars Come out? Actually, in the previous October we Xiaofeng car, already down from the sea horse production line.
At the beginning of our business, about 4-5 people were at the end of 2014, and now we are close to 500. Now that our factory in Zhaoqing has started to be built, the office is now not only in Guangzhou, but also in Beijing and the Silicon Valley of the United States. More than 5 billion yuan have been raised this year, and 20-300 billion yuan are expected to be raised in the next two years.
From 2014 till now, why is such a small, immature team developing like this? One of the reasons I feel very big is that we did observe a huge trend in the development of the automotive industry. While one's efforts are important, choosing More important than effort, and must take advantage of the trend, in the general situation to do a thing.
Now the whole country and even the whole world are crazy about the future of EVs. In 2008, this was a very small circle and a very small minority. However, recently it has been reported through various media that you have discovered that your community has been With the charging pile, Tesla and various car makers are already rolling out their electric cars and slowly moving on the road, finding that by double their sales each year five years ago The popularity of electric vehicles is on the rise, and in Europe, the United States and Japan have even set a fuel-efficient lock-up schedule so we can see how big the car industry has undergone.
In order to ensure future competitiveness, to carry two engines
Electricization indeed in our lives and in industry research and development have changed a lot, but for Xiaopeng car is a very strong Internet gene new team, let Xiaopeng car in the future with very strong competitiveness, I think there are two points to note, you need to have two engines:
The first is an electrified engine, there must be a very competitive electric drive system to meet the market's prerequisites.
The second is the digitization engine, which not only runs on the highway but also on the virtual information highway.
Motorized engine / focus on battery life and charging solution
Speaking of the development of electric vehicles, there are now 300 new car team, all the traditional cars are doing this thing, how to understand the characteristics of a good smart electric products need to have?
The first pain point is the battery life. Xiaopeng car from the beginning that the cruising range is critical for electric vehicles, of course, because of the current cost of our first product constraints, including the current level of battery technology, we did not reach high Mileage, about 300 km, but we have been the mileage, the height of the corresponding cost as the most important point, which means that there must be a very strong life mileage, but not the battery is the more the better? Not, Rather, it's important to keep this in mind when it comes to cost-containment, the maximum milestone you can find in this time frame. There's a lot of work to be done on the technology side: batteries that have to be high-energy-dense, including special Aluminum welding technology; also included from the battery must look to reduce energy consumption.
The second is to find a convenient charging solution.For Ford as a real driver of the industrialization of the car, made two innovations: First, the assembly line to solve the problem of mass production; second, Ford is the first company to make a warranty .Why should Because the previous carriage maintenance is relatively simple, but the car has a gearbox, the engine, many people have concerns not to buy, fear no one will repair. So when we study the electric car, can not obsessed with the previous Car thinking is as if we were not able to simply copy the experience of a carriage when building a car before it was built in. So when most automakers are saying maintenance is a repair shop, Ford converts thinking into maintenance Within your own scope
We Xiaopeng car is the same, I think the charge is very crucial.On the one hand, Xiaopeng car using the existing national standard charging interface and the three-party charging platform to do this thing.In addition Xiaopeng car will definitely spend a lot of money to shop their own charge System.You are in this city sells the car, you must in this city provide the user with the very complete charging solution.It is very important not only at home, but also in the emergent time, has the super charging scheme to be promptly replenished. .
Digitization Engine / Focusing on Autonomous Driving Landing
Now automatic driving too hot, too hot, this is also a very good opportunity.Automotive, Xiaopeng car route is, we will develop L2-L4 of automatic driving, but at present we are still based on L2-L2.5, Xiaopeng auto driving must be able to land the automatic driving, how to carry on the ground? Or need to consider from a security point of view.
We are trying to take the L2 autopilot first in the car, and then continue to collect data, repeated iterations, and ultimately let the autopilot smarter and more.According to our judgment on this technology, L4-L5 autopilot to The current technical capacity to achieve mass production or there is a big gap, we hope to get down to the L2-L3 this process to do a good job.
Some time ago we went to Silicon Valley to Tesla autopilot algorithm team leader also recruited into Xiaopeng Motor, not only with Tesla, but also the major automakers, there are some of the top experts in artificial intelligence in Internet companies are Join our team to develop an autopilot system.
In addition, we have done automatic parking for three years, with a lot of contrast with Tesla in terms of accuracy and identification of traffic conditions, and we can even say that we are now over Tesla. However, the parking environment in China is particularly complicated. We still want to iterate, I hope next year, carrying our car with automatic parking mode can give you more surprises.
The second is to follow automatically, Xiaopeng auto-driving inside, the first thought of these two points. Why these two? Because these two points are two very painful driving Chinese people, a parking is difficult, one is the traffic jam trouble .We hope We wanted to follow Tesla and Volvo on the trail, but as a self-driving, like many traditional Internet algorithms and smart algorithms, it needed a lot of data and a lot of data for a lot of Scene, as a foreign brand car, it is difficult to have such an experience, power for our Chinese consumers match, to design the most appropriate wisdom to follow the system in China's car environment, in particular, a long time traffic jam, the amount of interaction, I hope we can do a better job and ultimately hope that our car from the cold machine, can become more intelligent and warmer.
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