What is a car?
The car is the travel space
The car is a means of transportation
The car is the synergistic carrier of people and the road
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We are in an era where "car building is technology"
In the past few years, looking at the world, we have seen that enterprises with "technology" attribute tags in almost all industries such as the Internet, real estate, communications, and home furnishing have invariably joined the ecosystem of automobiles, and more or less officially announced the construction of cars.
At the end of the ugly cow, when we all thought that the "car-making fever" that had been on fire for several years was finally going to cool down, there were still companies that made cars: Niu Innovative Energy, Binli Automobile, Zhixing Box, Light Orange Era, and Tuanche Network.
With the advent of the Year of the Tiger, under the competition of enterprise players such as the continuous issuance of new brands by traditional OEMs, the formation of the ideal new forces of Tesla Weilai Xiaopeng, and the rise of Apple Sony Baidu Xiaomi Huawei, in this era of "car building is technology", what will the future car be like?
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Based on the attributes of travel space, intelligent terminals in the new era were born
Food, clothing, housing and transportation is the most extensive and common application scenario of human life, around the car's own spatial attributes, in the past people in the car has gradually realized the basic functions from air conditioning heating, car radio, caravan travel, etc. In the future, consumers in the new era will favor a higher performance car experience and more advanced driving and entertainment system functions. According to McKinsey & Company's statistics, between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of bicycle-value hardware increased from 80% to 62%, and the proportion of software increased from 20% to 38%, and the global automotive software market is expected to reach $50 billion in 2030.
"Electrification, intelligence, networking, sharing" trend of rapid development, for automatic driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent networked travel space, with more mature, optimized system kernel, middleware and application algorithms, automotive software functions and software upgrades continue to accelerate, the car will eventually become a mobile phone and beyond the mobile phone, as a new era of thousands of people into the intelligent terminal into everyone's life.
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Based on the attributes of mobility tools, the new era of flying cars is formed
In 1886, Carl Benz built the world's first three-wheeled car. In 1888, Mercedes-Benz produced the world's first car for sale. In 1893, the world's first automobile license and driver's license were issued in France. The production of traditional cars is to help people from point A to point B to achieve transportation travel, taking history as a mirror, we can see that cars evolve around the attributes of such transportation tools, with the vigorous development of automobiles and aviation technology, the development of flying cars has gradually taken shape.
In order to build a green high-tech emerging manufacturing industry and alleviate the problem of urban congestion, the national policy has also shown a positive and open attitude, and Hunan, Anhui and other provinces have taken the lead in trying to promote the complete opening up of low-altitude areas. In the past 2021, China's automotive industry is also the new version of Transition created by terrafugia Taili Company acquired by Geely, and in January it obtained the FAA's FAA's light sports airworthiness certificate. In November, Xiaopeng Motors announced that its airline X2 will conduct test flights in Europe in 2022.
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Based on the synergistic carrier attribute, future vehicles will accelerate iterations
The attributes of travel space and mobility tools promote the iteration of automotive products and promote the development and transformation of the overall automotive industry. In the future, with the gradual maturity of the basic technologies of intelligent cockpit, automatic driving, and vehicle networking, people and vehicles, vehicles and vehicles, people and people, people and roads, and vehicles and roads will achieve highly intelligent communication and collaboration, and at the same time, on the basis of heterogeneous network fusion and spectrum resource sharing, ubiquitous network coverage (such as 5G, DSRC, RSRC, WIFI, etc.) will be realized, from smart cars and smart roads to larger scenarios of smart communities and smart cities, in the complex relationship network of people-cars-cars. The synergistic carrier attribute of the car will gradually become prominent.
Based on the properties of carrier collaboration, under the wave of "software-defined cars", we have seen that cars have presented a new overall architecture:
Application architecture layer: intelligent cockpit HMI, ADAS/AD algorithm, network connection algorithm, cloud platform, etc.
Development architecture layer: application interface, functional algorithm library, security system, tool chain, etc.
System architecture layer: virtual machine, system kernel, POSIX, Autosar, etc.
Hardware architecture layer: heterogeneous distributed hardware architecture, sensors, actuators.
Under the traditional architecture, small functional changes will cause changes to all units in the vehicle communication matrix, software communication of different components does not have flexibility and scalability, and the hardware development cycle is quite lengthy. Under the new architecture, the monomer can be reused and arranged and recombined, the components will be standardized and packaged in IP, and the software and hardware can be decoupled, which will support the property realization of the vehicle co-carrier.
At the same time, the development cycle of software and hardware will be greatly shortened, the car itself as a manufacturing era of industrial products of science and technology crystallization, divided into power, chassis, body, electrical equipment four parts, the overall number of parts and components basically maintained at about 30,000, equipped with 10,000 + order of magnitude software and 500 + order of magnitude sensors, rapid development, rapid iteration will produce great benefits.
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Based on the integrated terminal attributes, scientific and technological innovation is quickly applied
▎ Cars with AI- driverless
In 2021, AutoX announced the first batch of completely unmanned/remote control RoboTaxi fleets in China. In July, the Gen5 fully autonomous driving system was launched with the world's top-of-the-line vehicle-grade hardware and electrical and electronic architecture. In terms of perception hardware, the AutoX Gen5 has a total of 50 high-definition vehicle-grade sensors, including 28 8-megapixel vehicle-grade cameras with a total of more than 220 million pixels per frame; the world's highest-resolution 4D millimeter-wave radar with an angular resolution of 0.9 degrees; and high-definition lidar, which is more than 15 million point cloud imaging per second. In terms of computing platforms, the latest AutoX XCU domain controller hash rate of up to 2200 TOPS (trillion times / s), which is a new high in China's on-board supercomputing computing power (for reference, the computing power of Tesla's FSD computing platform is 144TOPS).
▎ Vehicles with carbon neutrality - new energy
In 2021, Geely released the methanol P2 hybrid model of remote Xinghan H, methanol is a clean fuel, and the economy of methanol fuel will be further highlighted in the context of rising global oil and gas prices. In addition, methanol storage is convenient to use, rich in resources and widely used, and is called "liquid hydrogen". The use of renewable energy to produce hydrogen, and then synthesized with carbon dioxide green methanol, is a globally recognized way to carbon neutrality.
▎ Car and Metacosmity - Value Exchange System
In August 2021, the "IM Zhiji" App of Zhiji Automobile was launched, and the "Rough Stone Valley" was launched, in the virtual world, users can obtain "rough" by contributing vehicle mileage driving data, pioneering rough, accumulating points, upgrading equipment, and evolving vehicles. In the real world, "rough" can be used to redeem for various hardware or OTA services. In the future, "rough stone" will also have more abundant application scenarios, the real vehicle will have a digital twin, the data of the real car will help the virtual car to develop, and the ability of the virtual car to develop can also feed the real car to upgrade.
The attribute of carrier synergy will accelerate the product iteration of the whole cycle of the car, and the future car will always serve as the integrated terminal of cutting-edge hot technologies such as AI, carbon neutrality, and metacosm, providing us with a personalized and diversified user experience, and becoming a partner of humans and cities.
The future of the automobile, full of imagination and innovation, let's explore together!