月度归档 2024年5月8日

　　BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua)-Today, Heduo Technology held a press conference in Beijing, and released and displayed its self-developed intelligent parking service product HoloParking. This product is the first self-driving parking service product that supports all-weather and all-scene real operation, and can realize the whole process of unmanned parking and car pickup. Heduo Technology will join hands with partners to implement the "2020 Plan" and jointly promote the landing application of HoloParking. In addition, Heduo Technology also announced that the company has recently completed a round of tens of millions of dollars in financing.

　　Eliminating parking anxiety, HoloParking lets human drivers get rid of parking lots.

　　Heduo Technology focuses on building an autonomous driving scheme based on cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology and automobile industry technology, and is one of the few companies in the industry with full-stack autonomous driving research and development capabilities. According to Ni Kai, the founder of Heduo Technology, the original intention of the company was to realize the technology landing as soon as possible and let people enjoy the benefits of autonomous driving as soon as possible. HoloParking released this time applies L4 autopilot technology to parking scenes, aiming to completely liberate human beings from the chore of parking.

　　Different from the existing parking assistance function in the market, HoloParking doesn’t need the driver to drive the vehicle to the parking space, and the driver can get off at the gate of the parking lot, and the vehicle can find the parking space and park it by itself, without being watched. When picking up the car, the owner can also remotely start the HoloParking system, so that the vehicle can park itself and drive to the boarding place. In other words, the owner can complete the whole process of parking and picking up the car without entering the parking lot. Ni Kai believes that the value of this product lies in saving time and energy for car owners in all weather and all scenes.

　　The first parking service product that supports "all-weather", "full scene" and "real operation"

　　In fact, the parking scene is an application scene of autonomous driving technology that is widely concerned by the industry. At present, many automobile manufacturers, Tier 1 (first-class supplier) enterprises and autonomous driving companies are competing to develop solutions for this scene.

　　In Ni Kai’s view, compared with other parking service schemes, HoloParking’s advantage lies in its ability to support all-weather and all-scene real operation. No matter in the environment with serious light shortage, in the complex parking lot with mixed traffic and many emergencies, or in bad weather such as rain, snow, strong wind and dense fog, HoloParking’s system can operate normally, providing users with safe and stable parking service service.

　　Ni Kai believes that in order to achieve all-weather and all-scene real operation, parking service system must have three capabilities: intelligence, robustness and landing. Heduo Technology can achieve this function mainly due to HoloParking’s unique "three-in-one" technical scheme.

　　According to Ni Kai, the conventional thinking of the industry is to take the car as the only carrier to realize autonomous driving, but the pure car-end solution can not meet the three requirements of intelligence, robustness and landing at the same time. The practice of Heduo Technology is to introduce the field terminal and high-precision map terminal into HoloParking system, and form a set of "three-in-one" scheme together with the vehicle terminal. Through the coordinated operation of the three terminals, HoloParking is obviously more intelligent in perception, positioning and decision-making; Through sufficient redundancy, higher robustness can be achieved, and various complex working conditions, climates and unexpected situations can be properly dealt with. In addition, by empowering the field end, the sensor and calculation unit at the vehicle end completely meet the requirements of the vehicle regulations.

　　During the conference, HoloParking was dynamically displayed on the spot.

　　In the first round of display, the tester started HoloParking service with one button through the mobile APP 100 meters away from the open-air parking lot, and then the vehicle automatically drove to the parking lot. When the sudden appearance of pedestrians on the road is detected, the vehicle stops immediately, waits for the pedestrians to leave before moving on, and finally stops smoothly. When returning the car, the tester remotely started HoloParking through the App, and the vehicle was parked independently. When an obstacle car parked on the road was detected, it bypassed the obstacle car through secondary route planning and continued to drive, successfully reaching the boarding place.

　　The second round shows that HoloParking is equally intelligent and stable when multiple vehicles are running at the same time. Three different types of vehicles carrying HoloParking received parking instructions at the same time, two stopped and one picked up the car, all of which successfully completed the task. On the way to the vehicle, the nearby waterwheel began to water to simulate heavy rain. Under such conditions, the vehicle still successfully completed the whole process.

　　Wang zheng, vice president of Heduo Technology, pointed out that HoloParking has been able to effectively cope with all kinds of bad weather and emergencies, and support multiple vehicles to run at the same time, thus meeting the needs of actual landing operation, with high stability and safety.

　　The "2020 Plan" was announced for the first time, and parking service can be expected to land

　　While releasing HoloParking, Heduo Technology also disclosed the future landing plan of this product.

　　Ni Kai said that the commercialization process of HoloParking will start from important outlets and gradually realize large-scale operation. In this process, Heduo will work with commerce, automobile industry and capital to build parking service Alliance.

　　At the press conference, Heduo Technology announced its "2020 Plan" for the first time.

　　Starting from 2019, Heduo Technology will be the main technical participant, and cooperate with Shanghai Automobile City to carry out the "Last Mile" demonstration operation project, centering on the automobile innovation port, radiating Shanghai Automobile Museum and Shanghai Automobile Expo Park, and HoloParking will polish the technology in the continuous real operation.

　　By 2020, Heduo will support more than 20 cities, with at least 20 parking lots in each city. In order to achieve this goal, at the parking lot end, Heduo will cooperate with the smart parking enterprise "Parking Simple" to jointly complete the intelligent upgrade of the parking lot, so as to support the service of HoloParking in parking service.

　　In terms of sensors, Hedo has reached a strategic cooperation with Velodyne, the world’s leading laser radar supplier. As a strategic partner, Velodyne will provide Hedo with priority procurement rights and support Hedo’s wider deployment in the future. In the future, the two sides will work together to reduce costs. Heduo’s goal is to realize the cost of single parking space renovation of 2020 yuan.

　　Ni Kai said that all these plans can not be completed without the help of capital. Heduo Technology has recently completed tens of millions of dollars in Series A financing, led by sequoia capital china, followed by Oceanwide Investment, and NavInfo, IDG Capital and BAI (Bertelsmann Asia Investment Fund) continue to increase their holdings. Ni Kai said that this round of financing will be mainly used to increase investment in technology research and development, and accelerate the large-scale testing of HoloPilot, an expressway automatic driving scheme independently developed by Heduo, and the landing application of HoloParking, an automatic driving scheme in parking service.

Text | Xu Zhe

With the launch of the new Qin Pro today (September 21st), BYD’s Dragon Face family has further grown. As BYD’s fist product this year, Qin Pro, like the new generation of Tang, launched three power versions-fuel version, DM plug-in hybrid version and EV pure electric version.

In terms of selling price, the guiding price of fuel version is 79,800-115,800 yuan, the subsidized hybrid version is 149,900-176,900 yuan, and the subsidized pure electric vehicle is 169,900-189,900 yuan. In addition, models for developers were also released, including 176,900-206,900 yuan for the developer version of Qin Pro DM and 189,900-299,900 yuan for the developer version of Qin Pro EV500.

Continue the "dragon face" design

Before the design director Wolfgang Eiger joined us, BYD’s face value was really heart-rending. Now, the former Audi design director used his "Dragon Face" to end the rustic old face value and the world’s spit for BYD. The reason why he chose "Dragon" as the theme of the design language is precisely because in the vast historical process of thousands of years, the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation and the symbol of China culture.

Inspired by this, the models of BYD Dragon Face family all adopt a rounded large-size front grille design, with horizontal chrome trim strips, which looks like a faucet, and Qin Pro is no exception, which makes it highly recognizable.

Combined with the long and narrow headlights on both sides, two-color rim design, through taillights, etc., the whole car is more sporty.

The side waistline extends from the front fender to the tail, and the C-pillar is designed in an upward way. Slip-back modeling starts from B-pillar and presses down the curve to the rear of the car. In addition, the new car is also equipped with a five-spoke two-color rim design.

In terms of size, the three versions of BYD Qin Pro are consistent except the height of the car body. The length, width and height of Qin Pro are 4765/1837/1500mm, the wheelbase is 2718mm, and the height of the new energy version is 1495 mm.

In the interior part, the three models are basically the same, and the 8-inch LCD instrument panel and the 12.8-inch rotating large screen are undoubtedly the most eye-catching.

Qin Pro’s central control big screen has an 8-core processor, which can rotate adaptively, and is equipped with Android system, which can realize many interconnected functions such as chatting, games, entertainment, shopping and so on. BYD DiLink’s intelligent networking function also supports the interconnection of mobile phones and vehicles for remote operation.

In addition, the three versions all adopt the popular electronic lever design, but adopt different lever shapes.

Sandian technology highlights are full.　DM version may become the main sales force

Qin Pro fuel version is equipped with 1.5L naturally aspirated and 1.5T turbocharged engines, with maximum power of 109 HP and 154 HP respectively, which are matched with 5-speed manual and 6-speed dual clutch gearboxes respectively. The DM plug-in hybrid version is equipped with a hybrid system consisting of 1.5T and a driving motor. The maximum output power of the engine is 154 HP and the peak torque is 240 Nm, while the maximum output power of the motor is 150 HP and the peak torque is 250 Nm. The integrated maximum power of the whole hybrid system is 295 HP, the integrated peak torque is 417 Nm, and the acceleration of 100 km takes only 5.9 seconds.

According to the official introduction, since Qin Pro9 opened the pre-sale on September 5, in less than a month, nearly 5,000 DM plug-in hybrid models have been sold. Not surprisingly, the DM plug-in hybrid model should be the main sales force in the early stage of Qin Pro’s listing.

At the same time, Qin Pro’s high-density and large-capacity battery has an energy density of 160.9Wh/kg and a capacity of 56.4kWh. In terms of cruising range, Qin Pro EV can achieve a maximum of 500km. According to the current national subsidy standard for electric vehicles, Qin Pro EV can get 66,000 national subsidies, and the maximum subsidy amount is 90,000 after local subsidies, which is highly competitive in price.

However, the listing price of Qin Pro is still "high" by netizens.

In particular, there is a certain gap between the starting price of 79,800 and the previous estimate of 60,000. Some netizens bluntly said: "The 1.5T engine is on S7, while the 1.5L engine is on Speedsharp. It costs 30,000 more to change the car shell and configuration, and the Speedsharp is only 50,000, and it has become 79,800 here."

Others compared the fuel version of Qin Pro with Geely Emgrand GL, and thought that the configuration of Emgrand GL was better than Qin Pro at the same price.

Some netizens believe that BYD has expanded after the hot sales of MAX in the Song Dynasty and the second generation in the Tang Dynasty. "I originally took a fancy to this car, but because the Great Wall that I opened now has a huge fuel consumption for five years, the BYD fo I bought for my wife has eight oils, which has made me lose confidence in the engine technology of domestic cars, and I can’t rely entirely on patriotism when buying things."

Affected by subsidies, the profit dropped by 70%.

Looking at BYD’s performance this year, apart from the "Li Juan incident" that has not yet escaped, we have to mention the embarrassment of the sharp drop in profits.

According to the sales report issued by BYD, in the first half of the year, BYD sold a total of 220,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 21%. Among them, the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles reached 71,200, up 106% year-on-year, ranking first in the sales list of new energy passenger cars.

Although BYD’s performance in the first half of the year is good from the sales data, there is still a big gap with its annual target. In January 2018, Zhao Changjiang, general manager of BYD’s automobile sales, once said that BYD hopes to achieve the annual sales target of 600,000 units in 2018, including the target of 200,000 new energy vehicles. As a result, in the first half of 2018, BYD only completed 36.92% of the annual task target, and the new energy part only completed 35.6%.

In addition, according to public data, BYD’s operating income from 2015 to 2017 was about 80.009 billion yuan, 103.47 billion yuan and 105.915 billion yuan respectively; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies after deducting non-recurring gains and losses is about 1.207 billion yuan, 4.613 billion yuan and 2.987 billion yuan respectively; The government subsidies included in the current profit and loss are about 581 million yuan, 711 million yuan and 1.276 billion yuan respectively.

After entering 2018, BYD’s profits have dropped sharply. According to the previous report of Observer Network, it can be found from BYD’s financial report for the first quarter of 2018 that its net profit in the first quarter plummeted by 83.09%. To make matters worse, the semi-annual performance expectation outlook: BYD expects the interim net profit to drop by at least 71%.

In this regard, BYD gave a big profit dive to the "decline in government subsidies for new energy vehicles". The financial report explained that "the overall profit of the new energy vehicle business, including electric buses and new energy passenger cars, has dropped significantly compared with the same period last year."

Of course, the reason for BYD’s profit decline is obviously not only the subsidy decline, but also the unbalanced structure of BYD’s existing models and weak profitability. Therefore, the listing of BYD Qin Pro is particularly urgent.

Back to the product, compared with the self-owned brand cars of the same class in the first echelon on the market today, from the fuel version, Geely Emgrand GL, brand-new Changan Yidong and SAIC Roewe i6 are all competing products of Qin Pro. In terms of new energy, two new energy compact cars, Roewe ei6 and MG 6, owned by SAIC will compete with Qin Pro.

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