As you can see, the century-old evolutionary history of automobiles is about to usher in a qualitative change.
Not only the power system and platform architecture are transformed, but chips, algorithms, Internet technologies, high-precision maps, artificial intelligence, etc., are also becoming incremental components of the car, empowering the car and making the car upgrade from a mechanical product to an intelligent creature.
As the first independently operated new energy vehicle company in mainland China, Beiqi Blue Valley, which has 12 years of experience in new energy vehicle manufacturing, is moving from time to time, committed to exploring the intelligent boundaries of automobiles and outlining a new picture of future travel.
On March 26, Beiqi Blue Valley disclosed its 2021 annual report. According to the report, Beiqi Blue Valley's operating income last year was 8.697 billion yuan, an increase of 64.95% year-on-year, and the net profit was -5.244 billion yuan, a year-on-year loss of 1.239 billion yuan. R&D expenses amounted to 1.208 billion yuan, an increase of 24.14% year-on-year.
Looking back on 2021, Beiqi Blue Valley adheres to the concept of high-end intelligent transformation, is committed to organizational reform and adjustment, takes Jihu as the core driving force, and the fundamental development is good. Around the brand and quality of The Pole Fox, beiqi Blue Valley in 2022 has posed the posture and form of a technology exporter, changed the defensive posture, tied the hard gas and hard core to the storm car, and is ready to overtake in the industrial upheaval.
Take advantage of the long board: be the BE21 platform reverse technology output
The development process of Beiqi Blue Valley runs through the entire initial stage of China's new energy automobile industry. After 12 years of unremitting exploration, Beiqi Blue Valley has shouldered the heavy responsibility of "starting from scratch" for new energy vehicles in the mainland, and has also completed the accumulation of early three-electric technology.
Bearing the advantage of the long board of the technology forerunner, Beiqi Blue Valley did not have arrogance, but chose to continue to spend several years focusing on research and development and polishing technology. Focusing on the development needs of the new high-end brand Jihu, Beiqi Blue Valley has given full play to its advantages in three-electric technology, and has cooperated with Magna, a world-renowned luxury automobile manufacturer, to design a fully redundant pure tram platform that can create models with higher integration and mileage - BE21, which has caused repercussions at home and abroad.
At the beginning of 2021, Beiqi Blue Valley carried out two overseas technology authorizations for the BE21 platform, one was the intellectual property rights related to the electronic and electrical E/E architecture of the Jihu Alpha T model developed based on the BE21 pure electric vehicle product platform, and the second time was the platform architecture chassis technology of the BE21 pure electric vehicle product platform and other related intellectual property rights.
The output of intellectual property rights of beiqi blue valley BE21 platform is the first time in the mainland automotive industry, creating a precedent for the reverse export of China's automotive technology platform to developed countries in Europe and the United States. This means that in the field of emerging technologies represented by new energy vehicles, Chinese car companies have been highly recognized by international counterparts.
At the same time as the joint research and development of BE21 was launched, another cooperation between Beiqi Blue Valley and Magna was quietly completed. In December 2019, Beiqi Blue Valley Magna High-end Intelligent Manufacturing Base was completed. This is the first time that Magna has opened a vehicle manufacturing plant outside of Europe, and it is also the first Magna joint venture high-end intelligent manufacturing base in Asia, which has the reputation of "Graz of the East".
Relying on the world-class MAFACT production system, the safety quality of Jihu has gradually been discovered and recognized by the industry. At the 2021 China Automotive Safety Conference, The Pole Fox Alpha S won two awards: "China's Top Ten Body" and "Best Material". In the test evaluation results of China's automobile corrosion resistance and aging performance evaluation (CA-CAP), The Polar Fox Alpha S received another 5-star evaluation and won the first batch of platinum certificates for the test evaluation of corrosion resistance of the whole vehicle.
Based on technology accumulation and quality forging, Jihu has successfully entered the private user market and become a hard-core brand that is not afraid of test drive, collision experiment, and disassembly research. Beiqi Blue Valley has also been able to use the polar fox as a fulcrum to complete the market switching at the fastest speed, adding impetus to the future high-quality development.
Make up for the shortcomings: Join hands in Huawei's transformation into an ICT enterprise
As we all know, today's automobile industry has been very different from the traditional manufacturing industry, its ICT attributes are becoming more and more obvious, and the supporting industrial models and business models are undergoing great changes. The chips, algorithms, artificial intelligence, etc. that ICT companies are good at are all blind spots in the capabilities of traditional automobile manufacturing enterprises, and how to cross the digital divide without these capabilities is a life-and-death proposition that Beiqi Blue Valley and all other traditional car companies have to face.
As early as four years ago, Beiqi Blue Valley had already seen the arrival of this digital revolution. Based on the potential demand for automotive intelligence and networking, Beiqi Blue Valley introduced Huawei, enabling Jihu to have a world-class vehicle digital solution and achieve innovation leadership.
In 2021, the Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI Edition was successfully released and mass production was implemented. It is the world's first high-grade intelligent driving production car; the first Huawei intelligent cockpit product; the first 750V high-voltage platform super electric product; the first wireless charging mass production product; and the first fully redundant architecture mass production vehicle.
It combines so many "firsts" to fully demonstrate the value spillover generated by the combination of Beiqi Blue Valley's hardware capabilities and Huawei's software capabilities. Under the industrial synergy effect, the ICT potential of Beiqi Blue Valley has been maximized, and Jihu has also been able to win the race of performance and efficiency in the siege of many competitors.
It is worth mentioning that on January 20, Pole Fox Auto pushed the first OTA upgrade this year to Polar Fox Alpha S and Pole Fox Alpha T owners, with a total of 16 new optimizations. Since December 2020, Jihu Automobile has completed 7 OTA upgrades for related models, with an average push cycle of less than 2 months, and has completed 92 new and optimized upgrades, and its update speed is at the leading level in the entire industry, far exceeding the same level in terms of function realization and user demand.
Through the OTA upgrade, users not only see the possibility of infinite evolution of Jihu, but also see how Beiqi Blue Valley quickly responds to user needs and quickly realizes the attitude and technical ability of iterative update.
12 years ago, Beiqi Blue Valley, as China's first new energy vehicle enterprise, was a taster of electrification technology in the industry. Four years ago, Beiqi Blue Valley took the lead in holding hands with Huawei, and has since deepened cooperation to make itself ahead of the intelligent network technology track again. We see that the ICT-enabled Jihu automobile has evolved into the beginning of digital products, the beginning of intelligent terminals, and the beginning of information exchange ports in the internet of everything. The question faced by traditional car companies in the era of digital transformation can finally find a response in Jihu.
Of course, the current technologies associated with new energy vehicles are still far from reaching the ideal height. In this long-distance run that cannot see the end, the growth of Beiqi Blue Valley naturally has no end. In 2022, under the continuous empowerment of the advantages of Sandian technology, BE21 platform advantages, vehicle quality manufacturing advantages, and intelligent network technology advantages, Beiqi Blue Valley will continue to write glory and dreams, and meet a new round of accelerated development with hard-core technology.