Top News Henan Business Daily reporter Guo Dingran
New energy vehicles have formed a spurt of growth in China.
For a time, many new forces have emerged in China. Xiaomi, Huawei, Ali, Baidu, 360 and other Internet manufacturers have all invested in various forms on the battlefield of new energy vehicles.
As the "heart" of new energy vehicles, intelligent car operating systems are becoming a "new battlefield" for industry enterprises to compete, and it is also a new opportunity.
How will China grasp its own voice in the future of intelligent car operating systems? Fang Yunzhou, deputy to the National People's Congress, founder and chairman of Nezha Automobile, and director of Henan Deli New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., brought his suggestions.
It is imperative to create a domestic intelligent car operating system
Nowadays, new energy vehicles with green cards on the streets are changing the way everyone travels.
In addition to unlimited numbers, fast speed and fuel saving, new energy vehicles also bring users a new experience. In the intelligent new energy vehicle, you can sing KTV, brush dramas, play games, and even deal with office documents...
Just like the operating system required for mobile phone operation, the above intelligent functions also require intelligent car operating system to complete.
As the basis for reconstructing the industrial chain and technology chain of intelligent and connected vehicles, the automotive operating system platform has always been a key technology that must be mastered in the process of China's automobile intelligence. The importance of the automotive operating system to the automotive industry is as great as the transformation of the mobile phone operating system around 2010 has brought about an upgrade to the mobile phone industry. It will also be a "new battlefield" for major new energy vehicle manufacturers in the future.
How to avoid the new energy vehicle field repeating the mistake of the smartphone operating system being "monopolized" by the two giants of Google and Apple? It is necessary and urgent to create an ecology with China's intelligent car operating system as the core.
"It is not easy to master it (intelligent car operating system), it is difficult for a single enterprise to completely overcome it, it requires the cohesion of all parties in the industry chain to seek breakthroughs in the way of working together to create an ecology." Fang Yunzhou, deputy to the National People's Congress, founder and chairman of Nezha Automobile, and director of Henan Deli New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., said.
He believes that the development of smart cars has become unstoppable, and the launch of China's intelligent car operating system is also necessary.
4 dimensions to create an ecosystem
In Fang Yunzhou's view, China's existing new energy vehicle industry chain will face great challenges in the near future, and its root cause is that it has not yet broken through core technologies such as operating systems and chips.
He suggested that the relevant departments of the state should take the lead in building an upper-level framework, combined with the underlying logic of the industry, to establish an ecosystem from the application ecology, value chain ecology, tool chain and standards.
"The future will be the era of software-defined cars. The so-called application ecology is to cultivate a virtuous cycle of software innovation and development, wide application in the market, and business value creation. Fang Yunzhou told the top news Henan Business Daily reporter. He believes that the state can take the lead in formulating unified standards for the interfaces related to the intelligent car operating system, so that software developers can easily adapt software to different models of various brands, and provide a richer innovative application ecological experience for new energy vehicle users.
The value chain refers to the cooperation of different enterprises to participate in the development of operating system-based products, give full play to their respective technical advantages and market advantages, so that each company can generate and obtain corresponding value, maximize value through division of labor and cooperation, and enhance the innovation power of enterprises.
At the same time, the operating system is for the chip service, and it is necessary to lay out the adaptation and integration interface between the operating system and the chip in advance with the chip factory to achieve good integration of the chip and the operating system.
Fang Yunzhou said that we need to establish an ecology based on China's intelligent car operating system standard specifications, which is not only compatible with international norms, but also can achieve innovative optimization for China's user use environment, and ultimately achieve an international and advanced operating system standardization ecology. On the basis of ensuring the open sharing of standards, advanced innovation and internationalization, it also grasps the security initiative of the system.
Nezha not only wants to "go into the city" but also "make trouble in the sea"
As early as 2016, Nezha Automobile proposed a complete "intelligent car operating system layout" in the industry. In 2019, Nezha Automobile declared an operating system patent and disclosed its content, becoming the pioneer of China's first intelligent car operating system.
Fang Yunzhou, founder and chairman of Nezha Automobile, is also known as the first person in the industry to "China's intelligent car operating system layout". In 2021, Nezha Automobile released a full-stack self-developed intelligent and safe car platform - Shanhai Platform. The electronic and electrical architecture of the Shanhai platform achieves central domain control, which can realize the full scheduling of all vehicle hardware resources, and lay a solid foundation for the development of a unified intelligent automobile operating system with richer functions. At the same time, Nezha Automobile and 360, a leading enterprise in the field of network security, jointly exerted efforts to ensure the safety of the whole vehicle when centralized control through a complete set of firewalls, further improving the security capabilities of the intelligent operating system of the car.
On January 8, 2022, Nezha Automobile ushered in the roll-off of the 100,000th mass production vehicle, marking a milestone development node for Nezha Automobile.
(Nezha S who conducted the ice and snow test)
"The new Nezha S, equipped with lidar and L4 intelligent driving capabilities in limited scenarios, will be launched in the third quarter of 2022. This is the first model developed based on the Shanhai platform and is a very competitive product. Fang Yunzhou introduced it to the top news Henan Business Daily reporter.
The continuous improvement of product strength also indicates that the Nezha brand is upward and new.
(Nezha Automobile Beijing Store)
In 2022, Nezha is accelerating the layout of direct-operated stores in domestic first- and second-tier cities and accelerating "entering the city".
In addition to "entering the city", Nezha also had to "make trouble in the sea". According to Fang Yunzhou, Nezha Automobile may become the first car company in China to open a direct store in the Thai market. In the second half of 2022, Nezha Automobile is expected to enter the European market and is currently making preliminary preparations.
Developed driverless commercial vehicles in Henan, solving the last 5 kilometers
In addition to the rapidly rising Nezha Automobile, there is also Henan Deli New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Deli New Energy"), which focuses on the commercial market.
"In 2021, Deli New Energy mainly conducted related product research and development in the field of unmanned driving and hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and invested a lot of research and development funds and manpower." Introduction to the Ark of Fortune.
(Deli unmanned sweeper in test)
In the field of unmanned driving, Deli new energy products adopt the layout of "one small and one large". The small refers to the driverless Van (minivan) and the sweeper, and the large is the driverless heavy truck, which will solve the "last 5 kilometers" in the field of logistics in the future.
For example, he said that the unmanned Van is small in size and large in capacity, and can enter the community or office building to solve the problem of how to efficiently "get home" for express delivery. The unmanned heavy truck can play a role in the fields of smart mines and smart docks, improve the operational efficiency of mines and terminals, reduce labor costs, and achieve 24-hour uninterrupted operation.
(Deli New Energy Heavy Truck)
In the past two years, hydrogen energy has received more and more attention from the state, especially after the Winter Olympics, hydrogen energy has become a hot topic.
"Deli New Energy has developed two hydrogen energy heavy-duty truck models and has received many orders." Fang Yunzhou revealed that it is expected that the above-mentioned driverless models can gradually begin to be introduced to the market in 2022.