[car home Information] On the 2024 Guangzhou Automobile Science and Technology Day held on April 12th, Guangzhou Automobile Group exposed many new models and new technology information, including the official launch of Chuanqi New Energy E9 Electric Welfare Edition, GARCIA Guangzhou Automobile’s unmanned pure vision autopilot and Guangzhou Automobile’s all-solid-state battery. The new technology announced on Science and Technology Day will be a key link for GAC’s new models to maintain their market competitiveness in the future, and at the same time further promote the technological progress of the global automobile industry.
● GAC all-solid-state battery
Solid-state batteries have become an important keyword in the automobile industry this year. At the Guangzhou Auto Show in 2023, Guangzhou Automobile Group announced a major breakthrough in the research and development of all-solid-state battery technology, which has the characteristics of high safety and large capacity. On the 2024 Guangzhou Automobile Science and Technology Day, the new all-solid-state battery finally unveiled its mystery, and it is planned to take the lead in carrying it on Haobo models in 2026.
Li Jin, head of the research and development department of Guangzhou Automobile Ai ‘an Battery, said that all-solid-state batteries have higher energy density, higher intrinsic safety and wider temperature range. He said that the development of all-solid-state batteries is as difficult as climbing Mount Everest, and it needs to make breakthroughs in materials, design, manufacturing and integration.
According to reports, the battery adopts 100% solid electrolyte, which has the characteristics of ultra-high energy density, ultra-high intrinsic safety (mainly referring to monomer safety) and ultra-wide temperature range, and has "moved from laboratory to mass production application".
With the help of the third generation sponge silicon cathode and high surface capacity solid cathode technology, the battery has achieved an energy density of all-solid-state battery of more than 400Wh/kg, which is more than 52% higher in volume energy density and 50% higher in mass energy density than the current mass-produced liquid lithium-ion battery, and can achieve a battery life of over 1,000 kilometers. In terms of safety, it can achieve needle punching and cutting without failure, and it can withstand 200 degrees hot box.
● GARCIA, GAC has no drawings, pure visual automation.drive
Driving without a plan has become a new industry trend, and all major first-line automobile brands in China are involved in this field. Driving without a map, as the name implies, does not rely on high-precision map data, and it can be promoted in different places more quickly, which is one of its great advantages. The pure vision scheme is to get rid of sensors such as lidar, and only use the camera to identify obstacles around the vehicle, which provides reference for vehicle control decision-making for the intelligent driving system. The latest intelligent driving system of Tesla, which we are familiar with, adopts the pure vision scheme.
On this Science and Technology Day, Guangzhou Automobile released the first unmanned pure visual automatic driving system in China-Garcia intelligent driving system, which will be mass-produced in the spring of 2026. It does not need high-precision maps and laser radar, and has basically realized the high-speed and urban NDA functions of Guangzhou’s core urban area through the ability to accurately understand complex traffic roads, the ability to recognize traffic lights and the ability to deal with complex and changeable scenes. It is reported that after the official release of the city map-free NDA today, it will be launched by the new Haobo HT in the near future, and strive to achieve national coverage in the second half of the year.
Guangzhou Automobile Group has mastered many core technologies in the field of intelligent driving, including super parking that can complete parking in extreme space, one-button calling and driving, and cross-floor driving with large curvature slope, as well as high-speed NDA, urban NDA, traffic jam pilot TJP, etc. In the unmanned driving field, the demonstration operation of Robotaxi has been realized.
● Chuanqi New Energy E9 Electric Welfare Edition
Chuanqi New Energy E9 Electric Welfare Edition, which was officially launched on Guangzhou Automobile Science and Technology Day in 2024, has been listed on March 27th, with an official guide price of 409,800 yuan. The overall appearance and interior design of the new car are consistent with the ordinary version. Its biggest feature is that the second row adopts seats that can rotate out of the car and reduce the height, which can facilitate people with limited mobility to get on and off the car. This function is also the origin of the name of its electric welfare version.
E9 electric welfare version of the two-row seat can be separated from the vehicle after landing and used as an electric wheelchair. The wheelchair can bear 150kg, and the battery life can reach 20km. The chair can be automatically charged after returning to the cockpit.
E9 Electric Welfare Edition has a length, width and height of 5193x1893x1823mm and a wheelbase of 3070mm. The 2.0T plug-in hybrid power system of the new car is consistent with the ordinary version, with a comprehensive maximum power of 373 HP, a peak torque of 630 Nm and an acceleration time of 8.8 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h.. The 25.57kWh battery pack equipped in the new car has a pure electric cruising range of 136km for CLTC, a power loss and fuel consumption of 6.05L/100km for WLTC under comprehensive working conditions, and a comprehensive cruising range of 1,032 km.
In terms of configuration, as a new model, the overall configuration of the car is close to that of E9 PRO version, and it is equipped with 18-inch rims, LED headlights, swan wing cockpit, crystal gear handles, hot and cold cup holders, two rows of left class seats (with ventilation, heating and 10-point massage), three-zone automatic air conditioning, ADiGO Pilot, 14.6-inch suspended central control panel, Bluetooth keys and other configurations.
● Full text summary:
Compared with Robotaxi and flying cars in the previous two years, the new technology announced by Guangzhou Automobile Technology Day in 2024 focuses on the recent market and is expected to meet consumers soon. No matter whether it is a pure visual intelligent driving system without a map or an all-solid-state battery, it will make the performance of new cars go to a higher level, which is the general trend of the new energy vehicle era. In 2024, it is obvious to all that China brand car companies have made great strides in the field of new energy vehicles, and won a lot of applause from consumers all over the world. As an indispensable force in the industry, GAC will continue to promote industry reform with brand-new technology. (Text/car home Chang Qinglin)
