On June 5, on the 52nd World Environment Day led by the United Nations Environment Programme, the global launch of Yutong's commercial vehicle technology brand "Born for Business" was grandly held. Sun Fengchun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Jan Deman, chairman of the Busworld Foundation, attended the event and delivered keynote speeches, and more than 500 customer representatives from 25 countries and regions gathered to discuss the future development direction of new energy commercial vehicles.
At the press conference, Yutong Ruikon E platform was officially released, which is the first electric exclusive platform integrating software and hardware in the commercial vehicle industry. Yutong will work with global partners to continuously promote new energy technology innovation and commercial application, accelerate the electrification of global commercial vehicles, and accelerate the realization of the vision of zero carbon emissions.
Demand insight, value leading forging "Yutong model"
On the new journey towards Chinese-style modernization, the development of mainland commercial vehicle industry has entered a period of rapid growth, and the market scale has reached the world's leading level. However, in the market-oriented penetration of new energy, there are still many pain points that need to be solved, and operators are still concerned about battery life, power, safety, charging efficiency and full life cycle operating costs. Standing at the new starting point of the times, facing the new environment and new needs, the industry urgently needs a technical achievement to break through the original shackles, form a standardized technical route, and truly solve the pain points of new energy commercial vehicles.
The essence of commercial vehicles is to "create value for customers and society", and when electrification and intelligent network transformation become a new trend, technological innovation and industrial model innovation become the key to achieving high-quality development of the industry.
In this regard, Yutong brand spokesperson Chao Lihong said, "The core of promoting the development of road transportation lies in using cutting-edge technology to embed green and sustainable development in the value chain, provide customers, society, government and other stakeholders with sustainable products and services that meet their needs, and promote the development of the industry." ”
Tracing the commercialization process of China's new energy buses, it is not difficult to find that it is essentially the same as the problems faced by new energy commercial vehicles. The new energy commercial vehicle enterprises represented by Yutong, based on accurate insights into user needs, persistent technological innovation, and perseverance in value leadership, have completed the development path of commercial application of new energy buses after 10 years, and forged a unique "Yutong model" around the development of new energy commercial vehicles.
With the blessing of the "three-chain capability" of the coordinated development of innovation chain, industrial chain and value chain, Yutong has realized the development of vehicle product lineage, continuously explored the scenario-based operation of new energy commercial vehicles with products and solutions, and driven the technological progress and market maturity of the entire industry through product technology innovation and management innovation. All these have become the "confidence" to support Yutong to do a good job in new energy commercial vehicles, and have also accumulated valuable experience for the high-quality development of China's new energy commercial vehicles.
The SmartCon E platform is used to realize the platformization of commercial vehicle technology
The development of commercial vehicles in China has undergone an evolutionary process from single to complex application scenarios. In the initial stage of the industry, the satisfaction of user needs is mainly achieved in the form of hardware stacking, and the performance of the whole vehicle is largely determined by the hardware; With the development of technology and the maturity of the industry, hardware is gradually homogenized, and the influence of software on vehicle performance has been improved. When a single hardware or software technology can no longer solve the pain points of the industry, the development of the industry has also reached a new stage, which can be simply summarized as "hardware integration integration, software online upgrade", "whoever has stronger software and hardware integration capabilities, whose product power is stronger".
In this context, the Ruikong E platform, an exclusive electric platform for new energy commercial vehicles, came into being.
The Ruikon E platform consists of two cores: cross-domain convergence C architecture and vehicle operating system YOS. Among them, the C architecture is the "brain and nerve" of the whole vehicle, consisting of "central computing unit, all-in-one controller, intelligent cockpit domain controller, and assisted driving domain controller", and the original more than 50 controllers on the car were merged into these four controllers, realizing full-stack centralized computing and vehicle area control; YOS is a commercial vehicle operating system independently developed based on the C architecture, which is the soul of software ecological development, which can realize the unified management and control of the vehicle's intrinsic safety and strong real-time, and is compatible with various drivers and applications. The C architecture and YOS form the technical foundation of the Ruikon E platform, which realizes functional integration and redistribution, increases computing power by 200%, improves control efficiency by 100%, and continuously upgrades OTA throughout the vehicle life cycle to meet the intelligent driving experience and escort vehicle operation safety.
"What Yutong wants and does is to return to the roots, we must solve the pain points of new energy commercial vehicles and promote the development of comprehensive electrification of the new energy commercial vehicle industry." Li Gaopeng, President of Yutong Group's New Energy Research Institute, said that the Ruikong E platform has the three characteristics of "hyper-integration, scalability and self-evolution", and the degree of integration and intelligence has been greatly enhanced, which can greatly improve product safety, reliability and efficiency, and meet the needs of various commercial vehicle market segments in all scenarios, while also continuously evolving and improving.
At the same time, relying on the data support of Yutong's billion-level data, the Ruikon E platform is equipped with a new generation of high-safety super-energy battery, all-in-one silicon carbide power domain controller, a new generation of high-efficiency and lightweight integrated electric drive axle, multi-source ultra-low temperature heat pump for commercial vehicles, high-efficiency energy replenishment technology, intelligent networked commercial vehicle cockpit, and PB-level storage of hundreds of millions of high-computing power intelligent networked cloud platform. It is worth noting that the all-in-one silicon carbide power domain controller and multi-source ultra-low temperature heat pump for commercial vehicles are the first mass production in the industry, raising the level of the new energy commercial vehicle industry to a new level.
This also fully proves that Yutong has core self-research and deep integration capabilities of software and hardware, laying a solid foundation for long-term "leadership".
Core technology supports the continuous advancement of all products
At the press conference, Sun Fengchun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that in the electrification revolution, China's automobile industry is in the forefront for the first time; In the intelligent revolution, China has entered the era of high-quality development 2.0 with deep integration of electrification and intelligence.
As the first exclusive platform for electric vehicles integrating software and hardware, the Ruikon E platform once again proves that Yutong has mastered the core technology of new energy commercial vehicles in the revolution of electrification and intelligence. The value of technology is ultimately presented by the value of the product. The Ruikon E platform focuses on the three scenarios of "travel, logistics, and operation", covering the industry's most complete commercial vehicle product chain and realizing product value upgrades in various fields. Different from the industry's "technology before products", the Ruikon E platform has been applied to Yutong's entire series of new energy commercial vehicle products and continues to create value.
At the press conference, all new energy products in the three categories of Yutong buses, trucks and special vehicles were unveiled, and based on the application of the Ruikong E platform, the eight pain points commonly found in the industry, such as insufficient battery life, low operating efficiency, insufficient power, insufficient safety, low attendance, poor operational stability, inexperienced operation and management of new energy vehicles, and less cost of ownership in the whole life cycle of vehicles than fuel vehicles, have been effectively solved. For example, Yuguang E8 MAX is equipped with a new generation of high-efficiency and lightweight integrated electric drive axle, which can achieve the operation effect of long endurance and large capacity; Yutong light truck T series products are equipped with a new generation of high-safety super-energy batteries, which achieve the operation effect of high safety, high efficiency and long battery life; With the help of a new generation of efficient and lightweight integrated electric drive axles, the attendance rate of Yutong's pure electric mining trucks and heavy trucks can be as high as 99%... In the three scenarios of travel, logistics, and operation, the Ruikon E platform empowers products with efficient operation, stable operation, and intelligent operation, bringing customers a more "more commercial, more durable, and better to use" value experience.
In the future, with the continuous expansion of user needs and application scenarios, the Ruikon E platform will continue to evolve, with new energy and intelligent network technology as the core, and continue to create higher value for customers. As Jan Deman, chairman of the Busworld Foundation, said at the press conference, "China's new energy brand value and product technology advantages have gradually become prominent and gradually recognized by the world." Today, China's new energy commercial vehicle enterprises represented by Yutong are actively integrating into the global wave of zero carbon emissions, and in the process of comprehensively promoting the industrialization of new energy commercial vehicles, Chinese car companies have walked in the center of the world stage.
(This article is provided by the enterprise)