Today, the "arms race" in the smart car market has entered a white-hot stage. Apple, Xiaomi and other intelligent electronic terminal manufacturing companies have announced their entry into the field of smart car manufacturing. Traditional car manufacturers such as SAIC, Dongfeng and GAC have increased their intelligent transformation with new energy brands such as Zhiji, Lantu and Aian respectively. The investment value of new energy intelligent vehicles has been basically determined, and the mystery of the entire industry has been gradually unveiled.
For the capital market and end consumers, the persuasiveness of the concept output and storytelling of car companies has become weaker and weaker. In the context of the second round of car-making fever, only by moving from concept to mass production as soon as possible, and coming up with product progress and practical results, can we truly reflect the manufacturing strength of enterprises, the driving ability of high-end intelligent technology and the determination of transformation and upgrading. After all, only when the product is actually delivered to the market, it is the first step to complete the long-term layout.
Recently, Beiqi Blue Valley's high-end intelligent brand Jihu has sent good news from the market. In December 2021, the delivery volume of The Extreme Fox reached 1186 units, an increase of 76% month-on-month and 696% year-on-year, and 4993 units have been delivered in 2021. Among them, the world's first high-end intelligent driving production car that supports urban roads, the alpha S new HI version, cooperated by Beiqi Blue Valley and Huawei, has been delivered internally on December 20, 2021 at the High-end Intelligent Manufacturing Base of Baiqi Blue Valley Magna.
In the context of the competition between various new energy vehicle products, the new HI version of Jihu Alpha S has taken the lead in mass production of Huawei's latest intelligent car solutions, what are the deep-seated reasons and special significance behind this?
In fact, in the cooperation cases of many intelligent and connected vehicles, the group of CPs between Huawei and BAIC is a very personal existence.
Since its establishment in 2009, BAIC Blue Valley has been rooted in the research and development and manufacturing of intelligent networked electric vehicles, which is backed by more than 60 years of vehicle manufacturing experience of BAIC Group, and has more than ten years of core technology accumulation of Sandian, giving people a low-key and pragmatic image of studying technology.
Huawei is a star enterprise in the ICT field, with good technical strength, strong industry discourse power and the attributes of its own traffic. Its way of helping car companies build good cars and create a "platform + ecology" cooperation model makes the combination of "intelligence" and "car" more close.
One is a treasure boy who is familiar with sanelectric technology and vehicle manufacturing, and the other is a prominent figure in the frontier fields of intelligent networking, 5G and AI, which are very different, but have a common vision of going to intelligent network mobile travel, and this in-depth collaboration model of ICT+ OEMs has been widely concerned and expected by industry insiders. However, it is expected that there will eventually be an outcome to fill it. This heavy responsibility falls on the body of the first deep cooperation model- the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI Version.
From the perspective of intelligent product strength, the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI Edition can be said to live up to expectations. As the first luxury intelligent electric car to be marked with Huawei's HI logo, it contains Huawei's nearly ten years of deep cultivation in the field of artificial intelligence and more than five years of investment in the field of intelligent driving algorithms. In the urban commuting scene, the car can realize the full attraction to point of the urban area, high-speed, and parking lot. Based on the machine self-learning technology, the system can also learn and evolve itself all the time. The more you fight, the more courageous you are, the stronger you use.
At the same time, the Alpha S Huawei HI version of the car is equipped with Huawei Hongmeng operating system, using Huawei's 1+8+N full-scenario interconnection technology, so that navigation, video, music and calling services can flow seamlessly between smart cockpits and other devices. In the car, consumers can fully feel the convenience of all things and enjoy the fun of driving.
It is such a high-end intelligent model for the C-end market, from the official release of the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2021 to the mass production and delivery in December 2021, only half a year in between. The rapid landing of this iconic model has a profound impact on Beiqi Blue Valley and even the entire new energy intelligent automobile manufacturing industry.
For Baiqi Blue Valley, the landing of the Jihu HI mass production version of the model marks that BAIC has completely bid farewell to the concept stage in the intelligent track. Although the intelligent driving pattern has not yet been settled, there are still many potential new entrants, but Beiqi Blue Valley, as a car company that has reached the level of mass production of smart cars in a short period of time, has occupied the first-mover advantage, which has a profound impact on subsequent product sales and market volume. At the same time, the successful path from release to mass production can also provide a model and reference for the future "full-system HI", making the next stage of Beiqi Blue Valley's intelligent transformation more stable and smooth.
From the perspective of the relationship between the two sides, the landing of the Jihu HI mass production version of the model confirms the maturity and efficiency of the in-depth coordination and joint innovation model of Beiqi Blue Valley and Huawei's industrial chain. Based on the comprehensive business deepening cooperation agreement signed in September 2021, BAIC Blue Valley and Huawei will have more confidence in further cooperation in the future in the development of key system technologies for electric vehicles, vehicle product development, brand marketing and channel sharing, user diversion and operation.
For the industry, the practice of "layered decoupling and win-win cooperation" practiced by Beiqi Blue Valley and Huawei is expected to become an effective evolution strategy and development idea for the prosperous intelligent automotive industry. Just as the so-called "stone of the mountain can attack the jade", in the face of a highly specialized, subdivided and complex intelligent track, it is a good idea to fully use external resources to establish a new industrial ecology with an open and inclusive attitude.
For the majority of consumers, the mass production of Jihu HI has accelerated the ecological evolution of C-end civilian vehicles. In the future, as the digital world enters every user's car, the convenience and efficiency brought by digital smart travel will reach all aspects of consumers and completely change people's lifestyles. In addition, in the case of iterative development of software and hardware and the gradual improvement of vehicle characteristics, the user's experience and performance will be further deepened and improved.
In fact, Jihu, which is backed by BAIC, has its own unique advantages: a complete supply chain, a mature manufacturing end, a rich talent reserve, and strong financial support, which provide a guarantee for the brand power. On this basis, Beiqi Blue Valley adheres to the attitude of open supply and coordinates development with Huawei, which magnifies its own resource advantages and allows the Jihu brand to have the value spillover of "1+1>2".
The arrival of the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI mass production version model has injected fresh blood into the high-end intelligent car market. We hope to see that in the future, Beiqi Blue Valley can continue to work with more partners to create a more competitive supply chain, industrial chain, innovation chain and ecological chain. The high-end brand of Jihu also promotes and grows together with other strong competitors, and writes a new chapter in the new era together.