In 2020, it is destined to be an extraordinary year for the new domestic car-making forces. Weilai, Ideality and Tucki successfully joined hands with Nasdaq to open the first year of China's self-driving IPO to the United States. On the other hand, Weimar Automobile followed closely, successfully raising 654.38+0 billion yuan, which blew the horn of landing on the science and technology innovation board.
The performance of the new forces in the head tends to be stable, which also makes our eyes turn more to the new forces players in the second echelon.
Zero-run cars are one of them.
165438+1On October 20th, the day of Guangzhou Auto Show, Zero Run Automobile released its first SUV model-Zero Run C 1 1, which can be regarded as the representative work of Zero Run Automobile entering the mainstream market, with the price range of160,000-200,000, a medium-sized SUV.
According to the official statement of Zero Run Car, C 1 1 is officially defined as "global strength midfield SUV", which is also the "bucket model" of Zero Run Car CEO Zhu Changjiang Estuary.
"Bucket model", as its name implies, is a model with no obvious shortcomings. Specifically, it is true: 550/600KM battery life; Zero acceleration 7.9S/4.9S (double motors); Two self-developed Lingxin 0 1 intelligent driver chips with computing power of 8.4Tops；; The flagship platform of the third generation Qualcomm Snapdragon digital cockpit: and the rich autopilot capability brought by the support of 28 sensors.
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Autopilot chip with 100% intellectual property rights.
The self-research of core technology can be regarded as the core competitiveness of enterprises and the core moat of enterprises in the future competition.
The core part of autonomous driving naturally includes autonomous driving chips.
At present, there are three business models of autopilot chips in the world: one is a supplier represented by Mobileye, which packages autopilot chips and related functions to the OEM; One is that Huawei can develop a targeted autopilot system based on the computing platform of car companies; There is also a self-research like Tesla.
Almost inevitably, all host manufacturers are pursuing the last mode, that is, self-research.
Because the hardware is self-researched, it means that the software has a higher degree of freedom. Whether it is horizontal expansion or vertical development, it means more rights and choices.
Looking at the world, only Tesla has this ability. Ps: Xpeng Motors' full-stack self-research, excluding autopilot chips.
Lingxin 0 1, the autopilot chip on Zero Run C1,is the first chip with completely independent intellectual property rights. The CPU, visual recognition and NN neural unit are all independently developed.
Of course, among them, "the help of the nobles" is inevitable. The overall architecture design of the chip is completed by Core Technology, a company born out of Dahua Chip Research Institute.
In terms of core computing power, a single core 0 1 can provide 4.2TOPS computing power and support 12 video computing. Compared with the current mainstream mobile eye eq4' s 2.5TOPS computing power, it has obvious advantages. However, compared with the abnormal computing power of Tesla FSD, there is also a big gap.
But aside from other things, the zero-run C 1 1 is the first truly "China Core" car.
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Autopilot ability
Self-driving ability is the most critical link for the new forces to stand in the competition in the next decade. Quote a well-known "proverb": the electrification of cars is only a process, and intelligence is the future.
Zero-run C 1 1 After getting through the key link of hardware chip, we need the support of environmental sensors to achieve more autonomous driving ability.
The sensors on C 1 1 are also quite wonderful: the whole car is equipped with 28 sensors, including 10 body camera, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radar and 1 face recognition camera.
Compared with other mainstream schemes at present, the zero-run C 1 1 system is superior to abundant visual sensors and 10 stereo camera, which can make up for the deficiency of radar perception to a great extent.
After the software and hardware are "in place", it depends on the integration ability of zero running.
It is reported that Zero Run C 1 1 can support 22 intelligent driving assistance functions of Leap Pilot 3.0 * * * * including 8 functions such as AEB automatic emergency braking and APS intelligent parking system in mass production stage, and 4 functions such as ALC automatic lane change assistance that needs to be upgraded through subsequent OTA.
However, the "high-precision map" C 1 1, which is popular in the field of automatic driving, is not used, which also causes the author's concern: Although the hardware of the zero-run C 1 1 car body is quite redundant, the over-the-horizon information provided by the high-precision map can never be compensated by the hardware, C 165438+.
Of course, if C 1 1 is willing to meet the L2-level autopilot, forget the last paragraph, but it can also be seen from the behavior of the self-developed chip that zero running is ambitious.
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Intelligent cockpit
Its vehicle-mounted processor, the flagship platform of the third generation Qualcomm Snapdragon digital cockpit, integrates AI core and 8-core processor, which can meet the requirements of multi-system and multi-task efficient processing.
Specifically, the flagship platform of the third-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon Digital Cockpit is built on TSMC's first-generation 7-nanometer process, which supports plug-in 5G baseband, low power consumption and high-speed Bluetooth, and its performance is twice that of the current mainstream 820A chip.
Based on this powerful platform, the intelligent cockpit of C 1 1 is equipped with10.25 *12.8 *10.25 inch ultra-high definition triple screen and Iflytek's new generation intelligent voice interaction system.
In addition, C 1 1 also has a unique skill-"double living room" mode, which can realize independent Bluetooth access for the main driver and the auxiliary driver, and voice interaction in dual-tone areas without interference.
At the same time, thanks to the self-research of most controllers, the C 1 1 intelligent cockpit can also control and manage the vehicle hardware such as doors, windows, air conditioners, seats, thermal management and charging.
Regardless of brand influence, the zero-run C 1 1 is indeed a very cost-effective model. In the limited price range, all aspects of performance are quite strong, and the performance after listing is worth looking forward to.
Write at the end:
Looking at all the new forces in China, the zero sports car can be regarded as a "low-key", but low-key does not mean that there is no strength. According to official data, by September 30, 2020, there were 896 zero-run patents, including 420 invention patents, accounting for more than 50% (the industry average is generally 30%). The ability of independent innovation often determines how far this enterprise can go.