Li Qingwen: Riding on the trend of the new automobile era, create a world intelligent car evaluation brand

Automobile evaluation: On April 2, the "Horizon Cup" 3rd China Intelligent Vehicle Annual Model Evaluation Results were officially released, and the China Intelligent Vehicle Brand Summit Forum was held at the same time. The event was hosted by the Automotive Evaluation And Research Institute, led by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Invention Association and other industry associations, the Chinese And Engineering Intelligence Society, a number of university scholars, industry experts, and ideal, horizon and other technology companies participated in the activity, the guests from their respective professional fields on the development of intelligent vehicles and technology trends made wonderful speeches, netizens watched the event through the live broadcast of E-Car.

Li Qingwen, President of automotive evaluation research institute, attended the event and delivered a speech. The following is a transcript of the speech.

Li Qingwen, president of the Automotive Evaluation Research Institute

During the severe spread of the new crown epidemic, we have overcome many difficulties and successfully held the Horizon Cup's 3rd China Intelligent Vehicle Annual Model Award Ceremony here today.

First of all, on behalf of the Automotive Evaluation Research Institute and on behalf of the China Intelligent Vehicle Annual Model Selection Committee, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the relevant industry institutions, experts and scholars, participating enterprises, and cooperative media that support the selection activities! I would like to take this opportunity to give a special thanks to Horizon Robotics for its great support for the event! Special thanks to the expert consultants and expert judges for their intellectual support!

China's intelligent car annual model selection activity, is our automotive evaluation research institute, in line with the world automotive technology and industrial change trend, objective and rational evaluation of intelligent automobile innovation stage progress and breakthroughs, insight into the intelligent automobile market, agile judgment, intelligent car is about to become the commanding heights of the development of the world's automotive industry, become the focus of automotive enterprise innovation, become a hot spot for consumers to chase, become the main driving force for reconstructing the world's automotive landscape, and become the main battlefield for the competition of the world's automobile powers. It has become the main field of the world's new scientific and technological revolution and industrial change.

What makes us happy is that our judgment has been affirmed and actively participated in by industry experts, warmly responded by automobile companies, supported by horizon robot companies with ideals and feelings, and continuously reported and sought after by the media.

Although the annual model selection of china's intelligent vehicles has a high brand influence, a satisfactory appeal, and the function of guiding the innovation and market trend of intelligent vehicles, it has accumulated some groundbreaking evaluation standards and models. However, we are well aware that these are only the beginning, only the beginning, there are many imperfections, many deficiencies and deficiencies, many unknown areas and many changes. This is not entirely due to the innovation of smart cars, which is undergoing drastic changes, new technologies, new products, and new business models.

We cannot overemphasize objective causes and are unwilling to face problems and challenges in this way. Our original intention is to do what was not in the past, and what is about to happen now, but what has not yet happened. The initiative is our pursuit and philosophy. We demand of ourselves in this way, we push ourselves in this way, we inspire ourselves in this way. To build China's first, the world-famous intelligent car annual model evaluation brand, is our perseverance, unremitting pursuit of the goal.

In order to achieve such a goal, under the guidance of the pursuit of innovative ideas, on the basis of three sessions of china's intelligent car annual model selection activities, we decided to change the name of China's intelligent car annual model selection to the world intelligent car annual model selection.

In the era of traditional automobiles, the world's most influential model selection brands are basically produced in the United States and Europe. Although Japan is a big country in automobile manufacturing, it is not a strong country in automobile culture.

The evaluation of traditional automobile brands and the creation of automobile culture mainly originate from Europe and the United States, which is determined by the historical evolution of the development and innovation of traditional automobiles, and has historical objectivity and inevitability.

The surging disruptive innovation of automobiles is redefining the automobile, reconstructing the automobile landscape and reshaping the automobile culture. In the new automobile era, it is cloaked in light, stepping on the waves, riding the spring wind, hitting the water 3,000, shaking 90,000, majestic posture, and wind and current. The new automobile era calls for new car culture, calls for new car brands, and calls for new car evaluation.

In the historical evolution of the new automobile era, China is no longer a backward country that is closed to the outside world and is free from the new scientific and technological revolution and industrial change. China, which has reformed and opened up, closely follows the trend of the world, conforms to the general trend of the scientific and technological revolution, is diligent and studious, and embraces all kinds of rivers.

Chinese automobiles are humble and proud, not only open and cooperative, but also self-reliant, becoming an important builder, a brave explorer and a leading pioneer in the new automobile era.

All of this is the historical basis and background of our decision to change the name of China's intelligent car annual model selection to the world intelligent car annual model selection.

If we analyze it in detail, we believe that there are four reasons for this:

First, the largest intelligent car market is a superior condition for cultivating the world's annual intelligent car model brand in China.

In 2021, China's automobile production and sales were 26.082 million and 26.27 million, respectively, an increase of 3.4% and 3.8% year-on-year. Among them, the production and sales of passenger cars were 21.408 million and 21.482 million, respectively, an increase of 7.1% and 6.5% year-on-year, respectively. Commercial vehicles in quantities of 4.674 million and 4.793 million. The most prominent performance is that the production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 3.545 million and 3.521 million respectively, an increase of 1.6 times year-on-year.

In this huge world number one car sales, there are many judgments about the market penetration rate of intelligent and connected vehicles, but the basic orientation is optimistic and positive. For example, the National Development and Reform Commission estimates that China's smart car penetration rate may reach more than 80% in 2025 and 95% in 2030. According to the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, china's intelligent networked vehicles have exceeded 10 million at present, and the penetration rate is more than 50%. More institutions predict that by 2030, the number of intelligent networked vehicles may reach nearly 30 million.

All in all, China's intelligent and connected car market is now the largest in the world, and it will be the largest in the future. In 2021, although China's total population has retreated from the first position to the second, and India has become the world's largest country in terms of population, the gap between India and China is still huge, whether from the perspective of the size of the automobile market or the strength of the automobile industry, it is still huge, neither at a quantitative pole nor at a level. China's intelligent car market is the status and role of the world's intelligent car engine, and it is still the consensus of the world's automotive industry.

Second, the largest intelligent car market, open and inclusive of almost all the world's intelligent car brands, has laid a recognized foundation for cultivating the world's annual intelligent car model brand in China.

Only the world's largest intelligent car market size, without the extensive participation of car brands around the world, there will be no worldwide recognition, and it is impossible to become a world-class smart car annual model evaluation brand. Only in the highly open and large enough car market will it accommodate almost all the smart car brands in the world to compete in the same field.

In today's world, there are only two markets with this condition, China and the United States. Compared with the two smart car markets in China and the United States, the Chinese smart car market has more brands than the United States. European, Japanese, and Korean cars have put more brands in the Chinese smart car market than the United States, not to mention that the newly emerging smart car brands in China have hardly been launched in the United States, but have gone all out in the local market and have begun to march into Europe.

On the contrary, American smart car brands are very active in China, for example, Tesla has almost more smart cars in China than local. Recently, Tesla announced that on the delivery report card of 936,000 vehicles in 2021, the Chinese market accounted for 51.7%, reaching 484,130 vehicles, accounting for half of its global market. Tesla delivered 313,400 units in the United States, 170,730 units less than in China.

Third, the number and category of new intelligent car models listed in China on an annual basis are the first in the world, providing a variety of evaluation objects for the annual model evaluation of intelligent vehicles in the world.

Without a certain number of new smart car models newly listed every year, the evaluation of the world's smart car annual model cannot be discussed. In the past three years, we have seen a very clear trend in the evaluation of the annual model of intelligent vehicles in China, and the competition in the automobile market has rapidly shifted from the competition of new models of traditional cars to the competition of new models of intelligent and connected vehicles. In the first annual model evaluation of China's intelligent vehicles in 2019, there were 38 new models, which increased sharply to 103 in 2020 and 106 in 2021.

Now, when auto companies release new models to the market, there can be no electrification content, but they must not be without intelligent content. The lack of intelligence means that new models are not new, which means that there is no competitiveness.

According to authoritative experts, new energy vehicles and traditional cars are not a substitution relationship, but a competitive relationship. Then, intelligence is the ability that traditional cars and new energy vehicles must have. Therefore, the so-called intelligent car is the second half of the competition of industrial change, which has been widely recognized by all sectors of society and prevailed.

At the beginning of reform and opening up, the new models in China's auto market were not only pitiful, but also those so-called new models, in the world, were already old models, and some were even eliminated models in the local market of multinational automobile companies. Still, the price is more expensive than their homegrown. This state, which has lasted for a long time, can be described as a past that cannot be looked back.

At that time, how could it be possible to carry out world-class annual model evaluation in China? How can it be that China's automotive evaluation research institute has taken the lead in proposing world-class annual model evaluation standards? How can it be possible to make a Chinese contribution to the world's automotive culture? The evaluation standards and evaluation methods of the world's intelligent cars of the year proposed today are not perfect, and there are still many shortcomings, but we do have the conditions to explore today, the basis for creation, and the starting point for brand evaluation and shaping for the world's new automobile era. If we do not go ahead of the trend, stagnate, and miss the opportunity, we will live up to the times and be ashamed of ourselves and history. We are not arrogant and arrogant, not blindly confident, but we must have the courage to try, be good at discovery, learn with an open mind, and strive to create.

In the development process of the new automobile era, there must not only be Chinese auto companies that are leading in technology and product innovation, but also contributors to Chinese evaluation research institutions in cultural innovation in the new automobile era.

Fourth, the new technology carried by the new model of the annual intelligent car is the hard power of the annual model evaluation of the world's intelligent car.

The new generation of car consumers love the new technology of smart cars beyond imagination, the degree of familiarity is beyond imagination, and the degree of pickiness is beyond imagination. The new technology of smart cars attracts new car consumers in the new era more than delicious food, comparable to beautiful girls and handsome men.

In the three consecutive years of China's intelligent car annual model selection, we have found a law: at present, the world's new intelligent car technology is almost the first to be installed on the annual new model of China's intelligent car. Whether it is a new car-making force or a traditional automobile enterprise, whether it is a foreign automobile brand or a Chinese automobile brand, it has become the first user of the new technology of intelligent automobile.

For example, Nvidia, the world leader in automotive intelligent chips, has launched large-scale intelligent chips in recent years that are the first to be installed on Chinese smart car brands.

Horizon Robotics' smart car chips, which compete with Nvidia, are also the first to be installed on China's smart car brands, and they have launched a new smart car chip every year for three consecutive years to empower the world's smart car innovation.