As an international sports event held after the mainland promised to "strive to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060", the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will fulfill the promise of "green Olympics". The picture shows Toyota's service vehicles for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ready to go.
Pictured here is an L4 self-driving minibus that will be put into use at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the Shougang Park Autonomous Driving Service Demonstration Zone, they have no drivers, but they can skillfully carry out autonomous obstacle avoidance, path planning and intelligent scheduling, and make responses such as deceleration, avoidance, and braking according to real-time road conditions. Courtesy of Visual China
As the world's largest comprehensive games, the Olympic Games, which are held every four years, are not only a competition ground for athletes from all over the world, but also a stage to showcase the most cutting-edge technology and the latest development concepts of mankind. In less than 10 days, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be on schedule. Whether it is to ensure the safety of participants and related personnel, or to implement the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, or to drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports, the travel industry must shoulder the heavy responsibility that cannot be shirked and make due contributions.
The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, which adopts intelligent construction, intelligent equipment and intelligent operation, makes the lofty mountains between Beijing and Zhangjiakou no longer an obstacle; the civil aviation personnel who stick to their respective posts have tightened the air defense line of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic day after day.
The various new energy vehicles that shuttle between the Winter Olympic games are about to strive to reduce carbon emissions in the field of mobility during the conference; the mysterious "all-weather multi-model autonomous driving technology development and Shougang Park function demonstration" project depicts the charm of the "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" and the endless possibilities of technology benefiting travel and life.
"Green Olympics" blows the wind of low-carbon travel
On November 12, 2021, at the delivery ceremony of service vehicles for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, neat service vehicles were ready to go, Toyota Motor Corporation China Minister Tada Tatsuro Ueda handed over the vehicle keys to the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee on behalf of Toyota Motor Corporation, and Dong Changzheng, senior executive deputy general manager of Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd., presented the flag to the joint service team.
It is understood that toyota for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to provide a total of more than 2,200 event service vehicles. In addition, as a result of Toyota's cooperation with Beijing Motor Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yihuatong Technology Co., Ltd., more than 200 Beiqi Foton hydrogen fuel cell buses equipped with Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell system will be used in the Winter Olympics.
It is worth noting that in the transportation service vehicles used in this Winter Olympic Games, energy-saving and clean energy vehicles account for 100% of passenger cars and 85.84% of all vehicles, which is the highest in the previous Winter Olympics.
Dong Changzheng said that it includes Toyota's FCEV (hydrogen engine) "second-generation MIRAI" that was put into use on a large scale in China for the first time, the "Costa hydrogen engine" developed for the conference, and a variety of BEV (E-engine) and HEV (dual-engine) models. "In order to better serve the Winter Paralympic Games, Toyota will also provide welfare vehicles for the use of people with disabilities in the Kosda, Hai'ace and Xena models."
In fact, "sustainability" is the iconic concept and task of the Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC's reform roadmap, and "green Olympics" also ranks first among the four Olympic concepts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Some industry experts said that the "green Olympic Games" is not only closely related to the construction of venues, but also formulated corresponding standards in the procurement process of goods, projects and services related to the preparation of the Olympic Games, and will also blow a "low-carbon wind" in the field of mobile travel.
On the one hand, China's auto market has just set a record for the annual production and sales of new energy vehicles, and the market size has ranked first in the world for seven consecutive years; on the other hand, considering the cold environment during the Winter Olympics, the service vehicles, especially the electrified models, will usher in an opportunity to prove themselves. Therefore, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games are considered to be an excellent stage for car companies to show off "black technology" and show new products.
"As a global partner in the field of mobility for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Toyota will take the hydrogen fuel cell model as the core of the all-round electric mobility products, provide safe, secure and green travel services for the hard-working athletes, strive to reduce the carbon emissions in the field of mobility during the Conference, and contribute to the 'green Olympic Games, science and technology Olympic Games'." The relevant person in charge of Toyota China said that Toyota has always been committed to contributing to the realization of "carbon neutrality" through all-round electrification technology.
He told reporters that after all the events of the Winter Olympics are successfully completed, Toyota will actively promote the follow-up reuse of FCEVs (hydrogen engines) in transportation service vehicles, and take this as an opportunity to continuously promote the development of China's hydrogen fuel cell industry.
"Toyota hopes to provide consumers with more diversified travel methods, so that consumers can freely choose according to their different needs." Toyota Motor said that Toyota will continue to uphold the concept of "electrification technology can only contribute to environmental protection if it is popularized", promote the technological progress and popularization of HEV (dual engine), PHEV (dual engine E+), BEV (E-engine), FCEV (hydrogen engine), continue to provide More and better all-round electrification products for Chinese consumers, and continue to carry out efforts such as afforestation and reduction of CO2 emissions in factories and dealerships to contribute to China's carbon neutrality.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Green Development", saying that by 2025, the green and low-carbon transformation of industrial structure and production mode has achieved remarkable results, green low-carbon technology and equipment are widely used, energy resource utilization efficiency is greatly improved, and the level of green manufacturing is comprehensively improved, laying a solid foundation for carbon peaking in the industrial field in 2030.
In fact, since the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" was proposed, all walks of life, including the automobile and travel industries, have formulated industrial upgrading roadmaps around this goal.
"From the perspective of solving local environmental problems such as cities, the promotion of electric vehicles has obvious positive effects. However, in the long run, the automobile and travel industries still have a lot of room for improvement on the road of 'carbon neutrality'. Tu Ruihe, the representative of the United Nations Environment Programme in China, told reporters that the setting of carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals has not only brought challenges to the automotive and transportation industries, but also brewed many opportunities.
As an international sports event held after the mainland promised to "strive to achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060", the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will not only fulfill the promise of "green Olympic Games", but also be expected to set up a yardstick of "green, low-carbon and sustainable" for all walks of life, including automobiles and travel.
Decoding the "Winter Olympics of Science and Technology": Let smart cars drive on the smart road
Turning back four years, in the "Beijing 8 Minutes" of the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the most impressive thing was the various performance props full of technology. Today, cutting-edge technologies including new energy, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving have made more progress, and there will be more reasons to be excited during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games.
In the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Office Area, the Shougang Park Autonomous Driving Service Demonstration Zone, people can always see special cars. They do not have direct operation by the driver, but they can skillfully carry out autonomous obstacle avoidance, path planning and intelligent scheduling, and make responses such as deceleration, avoidance, and braking according to real-time road conditions.
As one of the "Easter eggs" of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, they are all-weather multi-model L4 self-driving cars led by Tsinghua University and Shougang Group, jointly developed by Baidu, Zhixinger, Futian, Traffic Management Bureau and other participating units.
As the project leader of the Beijing Science and Technology Winter Olympics special project "All-weather Multi-model Autonomous Driving Technology Development and Shougang Park Function Demonstration (hereinafter referred to as the 'Science and Technology Winter Olympics')", Professor Yang Diange of the School of Vehicles and Transportation of Tsinghua University said that the team made more technical reserves for the demonstration of the Science and Technology Winter Olympics. For example, these autonomous vehicles use AI artificial intelligence technology, and are also equipped with Beidou high-precision positioning. In addition, the application of 5G car networking on these vehicles has also improved the reliability of autonomous driving.
Since 2018, Yang Diange led the team to develop 7 types of unmanned models such as CMB buses, logistics vehicles, sweepers, mini buses, intelligent shared cars, mini delivery vehicles and mini sweepers for the special working conditions of the winter Olympics around the special working conditions of the winter Olympics, focusing on "cars", "roads", "clouds", "simulations" and "demonstrations", and at the same time built smart roads in Shougang Park, developed an intelligent networked car cloud control and scheduling platform, and realized real-time monitoring and remote scheduling of driverless cars.
In addition, he also led the team to build an automatic driving simulation platform for Shougang Park, Chongli Division and Yanqing Division, and carried out the demonstration of all-weather multi-model L4 automatic driving function in Shougang Park.
Like all curious "black technology", autonomous driving technology has always attracted people's attention, especially on the world-famous stage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Yang Diange told reporters that on the one hand, the autonomous vehicles in the park must withstand the test of complex traffic scenarios such as mixed flow of people and vehicles; on the other hand, the interference of various extreme weather and human factors such as low temperature, rain and snow also makes this work full of challenges. However, he still said that this "big test" during the Winter Olympics will effectively promote the development of technology in the field of autonomous driving in the mainland.
Some analysts believe that in order to achieve L4 level high automatic driving, only "smart" cars are not enough, but also need effective coordination between cars and cars, cars and roads to create an intelligent transportation system.
The reporter learned that as an important fast track for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Jingli Expressway (Yanchong Beijing section) with a total length of about 33.2 kilometers has been endowed with a "wisdom brain". It is reported that in the Jingli Expressway, 5G base stations and intelligent sensing positioning equipment will form a community with street light poles, provide data exchange and positioning services, and support vehicle-road collaborative applications.
In 2008, with the help of Beijing's successful hosting of the 29th Summer Olympic Games, the previously "unknown" new energy vehicles were displayed in front of the world for the first time. At that time, it was difficult for people to predict that new energy vehicles would cultivate trillion-level high-tech industries such as new car-making forces, power batteries, charging piles, etc., and bring good opportunities for Chinese cars to "change lanes and overtake".
Now that the Olympic flame is about to be lit again over Beijing, how much of a promising future will the self-driving technology that is being displayed in a concentrated way bring?
"Maybe in another 10 or 15 years, maybe by 2035, we may see the large-scale application of autonomous driving technology, and China's autonomous driving technology is leading the international competition." Yang Diange said freely.
Whether it is high-speed rail or civil aviation, whether it is new energy vehicles or autonomous driving, the moving stories in these travel fields are not only the successful practice of the new Olympic motto of "faster, higher, stronger - more united", but also the basis for the travel industry to make more contributions to a better life.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Xu Yajie Source: China Youth Daily
Source: China Youth Daily Travel Weekly