Geely, which is about to land on the A-share science and technology innovation board, is exploring the road of technology empowerment, from a traditional independent brand automobile manufacturer to an intelligent travel technology company with cool temperament.
Bold betting, automatic driving, Geely leading the automotive intelligent network.
It is a global trend to let autonomous driving liberate human hands and make cars a "four-wheel" mobile space. It has become the core direction of China's established intelligent transportation strategy to realize the coordination between vehicles and roads and make the ultimate goal of unmanned driving come earlier.
McKinsey predicted on 20 18 that China will probably become the largest autonomous driving market in the world in the future. In 2030, the revenue from new car sales and travel services related to autonomous driving is expected to exceed $500 billion.
However, in the early years, most traditional automobile manufacturers were cautious about the over-idealized goal of "autonomous driving", while Geely, the independent brand, made bold bets.
As early as eight years ago, Geely began to make a forward-looking strategic layout in the field of intelligent networked vehicles, which opened the precedent of intelligent interconnection of automobiles and intended to create a new era of everything and wisdom in the car.
On 20 16, Yi Cartoon Technology, a scientific and technological innovation enterprise with Geely's strategic investment and independent operation, was established. Yi Cartoon focuses on the two core areas of cockpit intelligence and vehicle intelligence, and has invested billions of dollars in research and development expenses, and applied for more than 100 core patents in the field of vehicle networking.
Intelligent networking is inseparable from a complete industry ecology. On 20 18, Geely launched the GKUI intelligent ecosystem. The integration of this open platform has opened up Internet head enterprises such as Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, JD.COM and Himalaya, and hundreds of enterprises from different fields have cooperated on this platform.
In 20 19, Geely introduced the GKUI 19 system with the leading edge across generations and the first mass-produced high-performance on-board chip E0 1 that reached the vehicle specification level, leading China intelligent networked car to enter the era of "super brain".
Up to now, 22 models of Geely's * * * have been equipped with GKUI system, and the installed capacity has exceeded 2 million units. All new models of Geely in the future will be equipped with GKUI system. By exporting to Malaysia and Russia overseas, GKUI system brings smart travel experience to Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
How to realize mass production of self-driving cars is a challenge faced by every car company, and Geely is at the forefront.
In 20 18, Geely Automobile became the first self-owned brand automobile enterprise in China to realize the batch delivery of L2 autonomous driving. In 20 19, the allocation rate and market share of Geely's new production model L2 reached the first place in the industry. Through the mass-produced intelligent driving system of Geely Automobile, traffic accidents of >: 53% can be avoided or reduced.
In 2022, Geely will achieve a short-term goal: fully autonomous driving technology will be operated in the Asian Games area. The Hangzhou-Shaoxing Intelligent Expressway, the first intelligent expressway in China and even in the world, which Geely participated in, will also provide intelligent travel for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Dare to let the dream of flying cars be the first in the world.
How to turn the city flying cars in science fiction movies into reality? Geely "dares to think" and "dares to do". Flying cars made of real money and silver are evidence.
Terrafugia and Volocopter are two major layouts of Geely Holding Group in the field of air travel services.
"In the future, flying cars are suitable for long-distance flights and need runway take-off and landing; The other is a multi-propeller vertical takeoff and landing machine, which can take off and land freely in crowded space. The first one can replace some small general-purpose aircraft to meet the travel between cities; The latter will replace the public transportation in some cities and meet the traffic in the city. " Geely describes the future flying cars like this.
Lee Tae Feiche focuses on developing inter-city passenger and freight flying car solutions.
Three years ago, Geely Group wholly acquired all the businesses and assets of American "Lee Tae Auto" Company. In June this year, Lee Tae Feiche unveiled the prototype shape of TF-2A for the first time.
Flying cars are not only in the stage of "concept car" and "conceptual machine", but their production is being carried out in Wuhan Hannan Navigation Industrial Park in an orderly manner. The general assembly workshop project of Geely Flying Car Project Phase II has been formally invited for bidding, and the planned completion time of the project is 165438+ next year1October 30th.
Geely 20 19 also led the first round of financing of Volocopter C, a German city air travel company, with 50 million euros, and Daimler AG participated in the investment, with each party holding 10%. Unlike Lee Tae Expressway, which focuses on inter-city traffic, Volocopter focuses on short-distance flights within the city and provides point-to-point air electric travel services.
At present, Volocopter has accumulated a wealth of electric vertical takeoff and landing flight technology, and successfully conducted test flights in many cities around the world. The latest generation of two-seater aircraft has a top speed of 1 10 km and a cruising range of 35 km, which can meet the short-distance travel needs of more than 90% big cities.
Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holding Group, once lamented: "Flying cars are a very exciting field. It can change the future travel mode and lead the development of a new industry. "
Be a pioneer of network car and build a smart three-dimensional travel ecology.
* * * The emergence of car ownership has brought earth-shaking changes to the travel industry. Some organizations assert that due to the new technological revolution, the profit of future travel services will even exceed the sales of new cars.
This view has become industry knowledge. In the past two years, many vehicle manufacturers have transformed into mobile travel service providers?
Geely is still one of the pioneers. In 20 15, Geely made a forward-looking layout in the field of * * * enjoyment travel, taking Cao Cao as the entrance and as an automobile manufacturer to build the first * * * enjoyment travel platform in China. Cao Cao Travel is also the first new energy vehicle in China to enjoy the travel service platform.
Cao Cao adheres to the B2C model of "new energy vehicles+public buses+licensed drivers". At present, it has been launched in 55 cities across the country, with a total of 50,000 new energy vehicles, 39.4 million registered users and an average daily order volume of nearly 6.5438+0 million. Cao Cao Travel Agency even launched its first overseas city-Paris this year.
According to the big data released by the authoritative third-party data monitoring company at the end of 20 19, since the second quarter of 20 19, Caocao Travel has become the second largest online car rental company in China and the largest B2C online car rental platform in China.
"Yao Travel" is a high-end travel brand jointly built by Geely and Daimler. 20/KLOC-0 was put into operation at the end of September, and has been operated in Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Chengdu. Did Yao use Mercedes at the beginning of his journey? Will Mercedes-Benz brand S-class, E-class and V-class luxury utility vehicles also adopt Mercedes-Benz in the future? High-end pure electric vehicles in Maibakh and Geely.
Tourism companies cannot do without the blessing of innovative technology. 202 1, Cao Cao's self-driving test ride service will be open to the public. During the Asian Games in 2022, Cao Cao's self-driving motorcade will be expanded to hundreds.
Innovation drives technological change and leads the technological change of automobile "four modernizations"
Technological progress has never been inseparable from real money, and Geely's "ten years 1000 billion" R&D investment has now achieved results.
In just 20 19 years, Geely's R&D investment exceeded 20.7 billion yuan, accounting for 6.3% of the total sales revenue. This ratio is basically consistent with the international first-class automobile group, which reflects the international competitiveness of Geely's R&D level.
Geely has set up five engineering R&D centers and five design and modeling centers around the world, with more than 20,000 R&D designers and a total of 65,438+07,677 patents.
Geely has set up five engineering R&D centers in Hangzhou, China, Hangzhou Bay, Ningbo, China, Gothenburg, Sweden, Coventry, England and Frankfurt, Germany.
Geely has set up five design centers in Shanghai, China, Gothenburg, Sweden, Barcelona, Spain and California, USA.
In addition, Volvo Cars acquired by Geely in earlier years has three R&D centers and three design centers around the world.
In terms of product collaboration, Geely has continuously improved its capabilities in cutting-edge technologies such as driverless, on-board chips, operating systems and laser communication.
This year, Geely officially laid out the field of commercial satellites. Geely's spacetime fishway announced that its first self-developed binary star will be fully verified soon. By the end of this year, it is expected that two low-orbit satellites will be launched. Satellite projects not only provide infrastructure for Geely's own comprehensive travel ecology, but also provide support for future travel, intelligent manufacturing, drone traffic, urban management and other fields, and build the advantages of scientific and technological ecological chain.
Geely is actively welcoming the "four modernizations" of automobiles, leading development with innovation, creating new advantages of online and offline integration, uniting global partners, and creating a new ecology of intelligent three-dimensional travel in the future through collaborative sharing of technological commanding heights.