With the rapid development of the times, the automotive industry is experiencing unprecedented changes, from the original internal combustion engine driven mechanical products, to battery-driven battery products, has become an industry trend, so that the new energy of commercial vehicles pressed the acceleration button.
At the same time, the implementation of intelligent driving has gradually formed new ideas for the development of commercial vehicles, and it can be said that who can master new energy and intelligent driving in the field of commercial vehicles, and integrate the two, who can grasp the future discourse power of the commercial vehicle market.
Hardcore backgrounds come across borders
Officially established on September 25, 2020, Qianchen is a "new force" in the commercial vehicle circle.
Huang Chendong, founder and CEO of Qianchen Automobile, worked in aerospace at NASA in the United States, and then engaged in the research and development of new energy, three electric and automatic driving in ford, SAIC, Weilai and other major automobile manufacturers, with a background in the research and development of hard-core new energy power and intelligent technology.
Huang Chendong's vision before the establishment of the morning is "technology to transmit warmth", with the power of science and technology to create happiness for more people, he hopes to use the power of science and technology to change the living environment of commercial vehicle drivers, but also to bring changes to the industry.
The elite team is coming
Since its inception, Qianchen has quickly launched its own products, and the distinctive design is eye-catching. Such a fast action is attributed to the elite team under Huang Chendong.
Huang Chendong introduced that at present, some of the core team members of Qianchen are from Weilai Automobile, some are from SAIC, and qianchen automobile has more than 160 employees, of which more than 50% are technical personnel, as well as talents from Internet and autonomous driving companies, so that the genes of Qianchen Automobile are different from traditional automobile companies.
A new force in the crossover commercial vehicle market from passenger cars
With the rapid development of new energy and autonomous driving technology, passenger cars have taken the lead in beginning to change and competition is fierce. Huang Chendong has accumulated rich resources in the automotive field, but he chose to enter the track of commercial vehicles, which is precisely the blue ocean.
Qianchen has the ability of vertical integration of the vehicle layout and all the complete automatic driving technology line layout, including the vehicle system, automatic driving system, power system, wire control system and software, the development of redundant technology, and the control technology are all independently developed by Qianchen, which can run through all systems, making it easier to communicate, interact internally and interact with information within the system.
Entering the commercial vehicle market with light trucks is emerging
Qianchen positioned itself as the leader of new energy intelligent networked commercial vehicles, and chose to use light trucks as the entry point. In October 2021, the first product developed by Qianchen, EC1, was officially launched and delivered to the market.
Huang Chendong introduced that ec1 belongs to the semi-forward development model, using the body of heavy truck and the chassis developed in the front morning, the chassis developed by the former morning uses lightweight materials, which is about 400 kg lighter than the traditional chassis, and uses a coaxial electric drive axle, integrated on the rear axle, so that the structural layout of the whole vehicle is simpler and more compact, and the energy recovery is better.
Due to the use of autonomous technology in the control software of the vehicle and the control software of the battery, the software can be debugged and upgraded in the morning, so that the vehicle can achieve better operating efficiency.
The all-forward development model will be launched in mass production by the end of 2022
At present, the commercial vehicle market is also actively promoting intelligent networked driving, and has realized the operation of L4-level intelligent driving vehicles in specific scenarios such as ports. Qianchen also has a unique technical advantage in terms of intelligent driving at L4 level.
Huang Chendong said that there are not many car manufacturers with FOTA capabilities on the market at present, and this is also one of the advantages of Qianchen. The data system can be better iterated through FOTA in the morning, so that the software can be continuously upgraded and optimized, and through the team's experience from passenger cars, accelerate the mass production speed from vehicle development to autonomous driving landing.
In addition, the development of L4-level intelligent driving directly on the faster-reacting pure electric commercial models in the morning is also different from traditional car manufacturers.
In addition to ec1, Qianchen also released another light truck model with full positive development in 2021, the iC1. This newly built intelligent, electrified and networked light truck will be mass-produced and launched in the fourth quarter of Q4 2022.
At the same time, Huang Chendong admitted that there is no model in the industry that is really suitable for automatic driving, and the model launched in the morning will make up for the gap in the industry.
The light truck is just the cut-in point before the morning layout is very large
In the face of the gradual implementation of the national "double carbon" strategy, many cities have gradually introduced the right of way policy for new energy vehicles to enter the city, and the new energy of commercial vehicles has been inevitable.
Huang Chendong revealed that the light truck market is the entry point of the former morning, and at the same time, it has been laying out the heavy truck platform for automatic driving. In 2023, Qianchen plans to enter the electric heavy truck market and enter the VAN car market in 2024, so as to achieve a comprehensive layout of products.
It is understood that Qianchen Automobile has obtained two rounds of financing A and B totaling about 60 million US dollars, and has obtained a single volume of 400 units of sales plus orders, and the market share of Qianchen in the future will reach 5%-10% as the goal.
Huang Chendong has what can be called hard-core qualifications in the automotive industry, and with strong accumulation in new energy and intelligent driving of passenger cars, he chose to enter the commercial vehicle market, and has obviously fully evaluated the market timing and development prospects. In the future, as a "new force" in the commercial vehicle market, Qianchen Automobile will further show the advantages of "dimensionality reduction and strike", which is worth looking forward to.