The fight against the epidemic is a war without smoke. Logistics has played a pivotal role in epidemic prevention and control, with freight vehicles carrying support materials from all over the country to help provinces and cities with severe epidemic situations to ensure adequate local supplies.
However, how to solve the "last kilometer" problem of daily necessities transportation has become the most severe test for ensuring the supply of the current sealing and control area. In first-tier cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, unmanned delivery vehicles supported by autonomous driving technology have carried the banner of scientific and technological anti-epidemic.
Under the empowerment of automatic driving, smart logistics will also enter a new stage of development. So, what trends are ushered in the development of intelligent logistics enabled by autonomous driving? From May 23 to 25, the 5th China New Energy Automobile Industry Conference, jointly sponsored by Tram Resources and Chengdu New Energy Automobile Industry Promotion and Application Promotion Association, will organize industry experts and scholars to discuss this issue.
"Science and technology anti-epidemic" with fire community group purchase unmanned delivery vehicles
Since the official implementation of sealing and control management in Shanghai on March 28, personnel have "stayed at home" during the sealing and control management period. The supply of daily necessities for residents in the sealed area has become a big problem, and it has repeatedly appeared on the hot search.
On April 5, Gu Honghui, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government and director of the Office of the Municipal Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control, announced that Shanghai has established 10 emergency supply warehouses to solve the problem of the last kilometer and the last 100 meters of supply and ensure the basic living needs of citizens.
The terminal logistics automatic delivery vehicles of each community group purchase platform have joined the army of "science and technology anti-epidemic". It is understood that the US group urgently transferred a new generation of automatic delivery vehicles (small yellow cars) on April 2, and officially "took up" on April 5 to distribute daily necessities for the residents of oasis Kangcheng community.
Subsequently, a variety of autonomous driving unmanned delivery vehicles have appeared in the community of Shanghai: the little magic camel of the terminal logistics automatic delivery vehicle of The End of zhixing, the magic bag of the Meituan automatic delivery vehicle, and the intelligent unmanned vehicle of Yuantong.
Unmanned delivery vehicles rushed to help fight the epidemic and were fully recognized by grass-roots cadres and residents. First, it alleviates the ferry pressure of volunteers to send supplies, and the contactless distribution throughout the process is safe and reduces the community's epidemic prevention and security work.
Self-driving light trucks and heavy trucks are quietly rising
Earlier, because the autonomous driving technology has been in the test stage, the pilot commercial scenarios are mostly limited to closed scenarios with simple road conditions: unmanned ports, short steel plants, and intelligent sorting of goods in the central warehouse RGV.
During the epidemic period, unmanned delivery vehicles with the support of automatic driving technology undertook very important material distribution work in the sealing and control area and successfully went out of the circle. Autonomous driving and unmanned distribution have also been fully recognized by the market.
It is understood that the Meituan automatic delivery vehicle that rushed to Shanghai this time has actually cooperated with local relevant departments and communities to distribute materials in closed areas in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Chengdu and other places as early as two years ago.
Science and technology to fight the epidemic with fire is far more than the "last 100 meters" unmanned delivery vehicle that serves the epidemic-controlled community material distribution.
From February to March, the city entered a state of "slow life" at the most serious moment of the epidemic in Shenzhen. As a national vanguard in the promotion and application of new energy vehicles, Shenzhen took the lead in using autonomous light trucks to transport anti-epidemic materials, and wrote down a strong and colorful stroke of science and technology to fight the epidemic.
After learning of the difficulties in the transportation of materials in Shatou Street, Shenzhen Yuanrong Qixing Technology Co., Ltd. responded quickly and used automatic driving light trucks to participate in the transportation of materials. On February 25 alone, a single self-driving light truck transported more than 500 boxes of supplies.
In fact, in 2022, in addition to autonomous light trucks, freight vehicles that cut into the field of intelligent logistics have also achieved a breakthrough in autonomous heavy trucks.
According to reports, on January 26, Zhijia Technology, a heavy-duty truck autonomous driving company, reached an in-depth strategic cooperation with the digital and intelligent cross-border logistics company Global Rapid Transit. The two sides will use autonomous driving technology and clean energy technology to carry out application cooperation in the container truck trunk transportation market, and plan to achieve a cumulative release and promotion of 3,000 autonomous driving heavy trucks in five years, and jointly empower Zhijia's world-leading autonomous driving technology to the global huge freight market.
Autonomous driving empowers smart logistics, where do drivers go?
After more than 10 years of development, the number of new energy vehicles in the mainland has reached more than 8.9 million, entering a "new stage of high-quality development". Following the electrification, new energy vehicles will enter the stage of intelligence, networking and sharing.
The development of intelligent logistics enabled by automatic driving will also usher in new development opportunities and challenges. Will the promotion and application of unmanned delivery vehicles and autonomous driving new energy logistics vehicles replace urban distribution trucks? Will the Internet enterprises and community group buying platforms that dominate the promotion and application of autonomous driving rob cross-border robbery, replace the current transportation mode, and revolutionize the lives of transportation enterprises and freight drivers? How can new energy logistics vehicle OEMs and distributors embrace autonomous driving technology and cut into the smart logistics track?
On May 23, the "China New Energy Logistics Vehicle Forum" held on the same day of the 5th China New Energy Automobile Industry Conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges facing the smart logistics industry, bringing together new energy logistics vehicle OEMs, distribution operators, e-commerce logistics enterprises, autonomous driving and supporting enterprises to talk about the new opportunities and trends in the new energy logistics vehicle industry chain under the background of automatic driving.
Meet in Chengdu and imagine the future of intelligent logistics development enabled by automatic driving!