【EV Vision Report】Extreme Kr and Waymo, one is China's rapid development of high-quality new car brands, the other is the top technology in the field of global automatic driving, when the two join forces, will surely inject strong impetus into the commercialization of driverless mobility.
On December 29, Geely Holding Group announced a partnership with Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, where high-end smart electric brand Zeekr will be responsible for providing exclusive vehicles for waymo One's driverless fleet and commercializing operations in the United States. Waymo One will be built on the SEA-M architecture of Krypton's intelligent mobility platform, designed and developed by Kr's European Innovation Center (CEVT) in Sweden, and then integrated with Waymo's autonomous driving technology.
The driverless mobility market has great potential for development. Driverless technology will be the new key to unlocking the mobility market into a new phase of growth. Extreme Kr and Waymo will work together with the concept of equal co-creation, forming a huge complementary advantage.
Waymo is the first and only technology company in the United States to provide fully driverless taxi services, and the cooperation with Extreme Kr will help Waymo expand its driverless ride-hailing services at a time when the industry competition is becoming more and more fierce, which not only confirms the technical research and development strength and commercial expansion potential of Extreme Kr, but also means that Extreme Kr's technical capabilities are already in a leading position in the world.
From the forward-looking layout of intelligent technology to the cooperation and integration of the industrial chain, Extreme Kr continues to work with global high-quality ecological partners to continue to implement ecological synergy results and join hands with Waymo, reflecting the forward-looking insight of Extreme Kr into the future of driverless travel, and also laying a good foundation for Chinese car brands to enter important global markets such as the United States.
"We are pleased to work closely with the industry's leading global partners to complement each other's strengths and develop synergistically to provide intelligent and sustainable travel services for global users," said An Conghui, CEO of Extreme Kr Intelligent Technology, "The Extreme Kr brand adheres to the value concept of equality, diversity and sustainability, not only co-creation with users, but also adheres to co-creation with global high-quality ecological partners." This time, Extreme Kr and Waymo have become strategic partners to jointly develop driverless exclusive vehicles for the Waymo One fleet, which fully proves the technical research and development strength and commercial expansion potential of Extreme Kr. ”
Waymo One has a new look
Different from the design ideas of traditional models that focus on drivers, Kr and Waymo will work together to create exclusive travel service models for driverless application scenarios, adopting the design concept of passengers as the core, paying more attention to passenger preferences, and experiencing more comfort and convenience.
From the appearance of the product, the Waymo One driverless exclusive model created by Extreme Kr adopts a capsule design, which is cooler, more dynamic, and more affinity. The new car has the characteristics of low ground clearance and flat floor shape, while eliminating the B-pillar design, creating ample head and leg space for passengers, and adopting a two-way door design to bring more convenient boarding and getting on and off the car. At the same time, the model is oriented to unmanned driving application scenarios, using a more flexible cockpit design, which can support two schemes of driver control mechanism and no driver control mechanism, the co-pilot cancels the air conditioning box, moves to the engine compartment, the entire dashboard is moved forward, the internal space experience is better, the flat floor has a long slide for seat applications, and supports a variety of seat layouts.
The most concerned about the driverless model is safety, this new car front cabin stringer with bold design, absorb collision energy, energy transmission is cleverly designed to be transmitted around the cockpit, to meet global safety standards.
According to the plan, the model will be equipped with Waymo Driver driverless solution after delivery, which can realize automatic steering drive, entertainment systems and body control.
Waymo has a crush on the Vast-M architecture
The reason why Waymo chose Extreme Kr is precisely because it looks at the exclusive architecture created by Extreme Kr for future intelligent travel - Haohan-M (SEA-M) architecture, which means Modular Mobility Architecture, and the SEA Haohan architecture will derive the latest evolutionary form for the era of unmanned driving.
Based on the technology and experience accumulation of SEA Haohan architecture, THE SEA-M architecture is committed to building a sustainable and extended mobility service system in the driverless era through the integration of the hardware layer + system layer + ecological layer, which is open to global ecological partners in view of the market trends and needs of the driverless era, breaking through the limitations of traditional car manufacturing. In the future, Extreme Krypton also plans to launch models for the use scenarios of the Chinese market based on the Haohan-M architecture.
As the world's first intelligent mobility architecture developed specifically for driverless scenarios, SEA-M has a flexible cockpit design that can support both driver control and driverless control mechanisms and a variety of seat layouts.
The wide wheelbase of 2700mm-3300mm allows the model to have strong scalability and maximum comfort. The front/rear suspension length of the vehicle can be adjusted, the seat and rear axle can be stretched in front, and the basic length and width of the vehicle can be flexibly adjusted according to the R&D needs, supporting a variety of models such as 2-seater, 5-seater, 6-seater and 7-seater; it can also be made into a pair of seats in the case of unmanned driving. The products of the SEA-M platform are highly scalable, supporting both the use scenarios of B-end driverless vehicles and the use of future driverless vehicles in C-end scenarios.
The SEA-M platform can continue to evolve for unmanned driving scenarios, embedded in the unmanned software interface, can access the L2-L4 level and above intelligent driving system, and realize the automatic switching of the wire control, adapting to different unmanned driving solutions.
Sharing the electrical and electronic architecture with SEA Haohan architecture is conducive to improving the efficiency of R&D and use, reducing costs, and improving the cost of maintenance in the later stage.
Krypton chose Waymo to expand the boundaries of co-creation
In the world of autonomous driving technology, Waymo is the "god" standing at the top, as Alphabet's technology brand, 11 years of technology accumulation, the longest actual road test mileage, so that it has always been at the top of all kinds of driverless authority "list".
This year,D.C. Transportation Authority DMV's latest data shows that Waymo continues to maintain the first place position, leading the way for five consecutive years, accumulating more than 20 million miles of test kilometers, and in December 2018, Waymo announced the official commercialization of driverless services, launching the first commercial ride-hailing service for passengers - Waymo One. Currently serving in Phoenix, California, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Waymo is building new features and investing in next-generation hardware and software to maintain its leading position and continue to improve, and will continue to expand its operations in 2022.
The head-driving company booked 20,000 I-PACE from Jaguar in 2018 and another 62,000 Pacifica from FCA. While there are quite a few models available on the surface, neither the Pacifica nor the I-PACE are actually models born for autonomous driving. For Waymo, these vehicles are old models and retrofittings are expensive. Waymo's commercial landing method is driverless taxi, the consistency of the modified model can not be guaranteed, the stability is poor, and the maintenance cost is very high in the later stage. As a result, Waymo must find a better mass-produced self-driving exclusive model.
In the future, high-end new energy vehicles will not only be a tool for travel, but also a mobile intelligent terminal that connects people and cities, connects people and people, and brings users a new way of life. And the blockbuster crash of the extreme krypton car landing can be described as opportune.
The extreme krypton from Geely's traditional car company is not simply grafted electrification and intelligent technology, relying on Geely's 35 years of accumulation, quickly building a complete pure electric intelligent technology ecosystem, positioning user-oriented enterprises, adhering to the purest user thinking, integrating the two forces, and opening up a different third road.
Krypton not only co-creation with users, but also with global high-quality partners, through the powerful carrier of the vast architecture, Extreme Kr not only opens up the technology ecology and user ecology, but also relies on the huge industrial cluster and innovative organizational form to completely break the boundary between enterprises and users, so that evolution continues to occur due to diversified creativity.
Just as the brand's dawning logo symbolizes the entrance to the future and the unknown world, Kr has always strived to create a full ecosystem that meets the future travel and life of users, and has formed a unique extreme krypton gravitational field with its advantages in brand, product, innovation model and user co-creation. This strong cooperation with Waymo has made a good start, and I believe that Extreme Kr will introduce more high-quality ecological partners in the future to continuously broaden the boundaries of future travel imagination.
epilogue
The news that Waymo is holding hands with Kr is undoubtedly heavy, and the combination of the two will largely achieve a win-win situation and accelerate the arrival of the driverless era.