The online car market learned from relevant channels that Baidu and Geely's joint car manufacturing project Jidu Automobile has set up a headquarters in Beijing, and the coordinates are located in The Yizhuang Economic Development Zone in Beijing, becoming another new car-making force that has settled in Yizhuang after Xiaomi. According to official sources, Jidu Automobile's first automotive robot concept car will be released at the Beijing Auto Show in April and will be mass-produced and listed in 2023.
Baidu Automobile Headquarters Jidu Technology Co., Ltd., mentioned in the above-mentioned government documents, completed the industrial and commercial registration on June 7, 2021, the legal representative is Xia Yiping, the registered capital is 2 billion yuan, the address is located in the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone high-end industrial area Yizhuang Group Yizhuang Innovation Building, belongs to the industry for automobile manufacturing, the business scope includes new energy vehicles and related parts of the technical services.
At the 2021 Baidu World Congress, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li proposed the concept of "automotive robot" for the first time. Robin Li said that the car robot will subvert the design concept of traditional cars, in terms of appearance, automatic doors, all-glass roof and external sensors are integrated; on the interior, there is no steering wheel and pedals, and it has intelligent configurations such as large curved screens, intelligent consoles, light-changing glass, zero-gravity seats, etc.; functionally, it will not only provide automatic driving and intelligent assistant services, but also have the ability to self-learn and continuously upgrade.
On January 19, Jidu officially announced some of the product design styles of its first concept car. Officials said the new car will be equipped with NVIDIA DRIVE OrinSoC chips with L4 level autopilot functions. The production version of the automotive robot will look 90% the same as the concept car and will be delivered in 2023.