On April 25, the 2024 Beijing Auto Show kicked off, and GAC Group participated in the exhibition with its five major vehicle brands, and its own brand "Gemini" debuted two new cars. At the same time, GAC Group released the "Smart Mobility 2027" action plan, hoping to achieve a leading position in product experience and travel scenarios on the basis of the existing intelligent advantages, through the upgrading of intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit and the creation of intelligent three-dimensional travel scenarios, and add intelligent support to the trillion-dollar GAC grand blueprint.
The independent "Gemini" debuted a blockbuster new car to create a feast of intelligent electric technology
In the new era of global growth of Chinese brands, China's new energy vehicle production and sales have ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years, and the export volume of automobiles will also jump to the first place in the world for the first time in 2023. Aiming at this development opportunity, GAC Group's vehicle brands have launched blockbuster models to seize the market and impact the world's first-class.
GAC Aion, as the leading brand of smart electric vehicles, released the second-generation AION V, the first global strategic model, at this auto show, bringing advanced, trendy and fun intelligent new technology to consumers around the world.
The second-generation AION V not only has the excellent quality of traditional classic cars, but also integrates 23 breakthrough technologies, and has 8 core user values such as a self-evolving AI cockpit and an international wide temperature range of 750km, which will set a new benchmark for China's new energy to go overseas. At the same time, in order to further accelerate the pace of GAC Aion's globalization and enhance the awareness of global users, GAC Aion's brand announced the full use of the AION letter mark. The second-generation AION V is also the first product to feature the AION lettermark, and the new car will be launched worldwide in July 2024.
GAC Trumpchi brought the latest achievements in the high-quality transformation of new energy technology enterprises.
First of all, the cooperation between GAC Trumpchi and Huawei has been further deepened, and the two sides have jointly launched the "new" plan of Trumpchi and Huawei, focusing on in-depth cooperation and research and development in multiple fields such as intelligent chassis and intelligent human-computer interaction. GAC Trumpchi has also become the first brand to be equipped with a new generation of Huawei's intelligent technologies such as Qiankun Intelligent Driving and Hongmeng Cockpit in all fields of sedans, SUVs and MPVs, and the first model will be launched and delivered in the first quarter of 2025.
At the same time, thanks to the world-class car manufacturing heritage accumulated over the past 20 years, GAC Trumpchi released the "EV+", a worry-free solution for all cycles and scenarios, at the auto show based on its unique multi-energy development path. Undertaking the "EV+" solution, the 2024 Trumpchi New Energy E9 was launched, adding a premium version and a state-guest customized version on top of the original version, and the Trumpchi E9 four-seater high-end high-end version jointly created by a German high-end automobile custom brand also started pre-sale release.
In addition, the all-round family MPV, the Trumpchi M6 MAX, was also unveiled at the same stage at this auto show. All new cars are equipped with the HiCar intelligent interconnection system as standard, which realizes the seamless connection between the mobile phone and the car machine, and provides users with a more convenient and intelligent driving experience.
It is worth noting that the Haobo brand participated in the exhibition for the first time, and its hard-core upgraded Haobo HT 2024 model has a million-level intelligent driving, no map to the world, with 825km ultra-long battery life and 800V ultra-fast charging, setting a new benchmark for luxury pure electric vehicles. In addition to the blockbuster products brought by the independent "twin stars" GAC Trumpchi and GAC Aion, GAC Honda, GAC Toyota and other vehicle brands have also made every effort to accelerate the implementation of intelligence, bringing pure electric vehicles equipped with leading intelligent technology, and creating a scientific and technological feast in the era of smart electricity.
Facing the new era, GAC Group is speeding up the pace, integrating the strength of the whole group to speed up intelligence, and make every effort to impact the world-class.
Focus on intelligent driving and cockpit, and upgrade product experience at a high level
In the first half of electrification, GAC Group successfully seized the opportunity, and GAC Aion, a subsidiary of GAC Aion, became the world's fastest automobile brand with sales exceeding one million, helping GAC Group become the mainstay of the domestic and global electrification wave. In the second half of the intelligent market, GAC Group made every effort to accelerate by virtue of its advantages in the first release, strong technical research and development strength and industrial ecological layout. At the Beijing Auto Show, GAC Group released the "Zhixing 2027" action plan.
The plan will take three years to continuously consolidate the three technical foundations of "GAC AI Large Model Platform", "GAC Xingling Electronic and Electrical Architecture" and "GAC Connected Big Data Platform", promote the rapid optimization of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit, and achieve a significant improvement in user product experience.
As the first independent brand to apply the Internet of Vehicles technology, GAC Group realized the mass production of the first domestic Internet of Vehicles system T-Box as early as 2013, created the first domestic L2+ model for mass production and delivery in 2019, and launched the world's first 5G-V2X supporting model AION V in 2020, bringing consumers an advanced experience. In 2024, when intelligent driving technology explodes, the two major routes of GAC Group's ADiGO PILOT intelligent driving system, "multi-sensor fusion" and "pure vision without images", have achieved industry-leading "true maplessness" that does not rely on high-precision maps, so that "navigation can be driven". Among them, the L2++ level mapless city NDA function based on the "multi-sensor fusion" technology has been installed on the Haobo model and is planned to achieve nationwide coverage in 2024, and the industry-leading pictureless pure vision intelligent driving system is planned to be installed in 2026 to further reduce the cost of high-end intelligent driving and truly realize "intelligent driving equality". In addition, as one of the first batch of domestic L3 autonomous driving access application car companies, GAC L3 autonomous driving is currently being tested in Guangzhou, and mass production will be achieved next year.
In 2026, L3+ autonomous driving, which has a wider range of use scenarios, will be mass-produced, and in 2027, GAC will launch L4 autonomous driving for users, opening a new era of GAC's autonomous driving technology.
In another factor that affects the experience of smart car products - intelligent cockpit, GAC Group has also been deeply cultivated for many years and will catch up with the next level. Previously, with a series of advanced intelligent services such as ADiGO SOUND and ADiGO MAGIC GAC Rubik's Cube scene co-creation platform brought by ADiGO SPACE intelligent cockpit, GAC Group has brought the intelligent driving experience into a high dimension. This year, GAC Group will mass-produce the industry's first "GAC Device-Cloud Integrated Large Model Intelligent Twin", which allows the cockpit to have dual brains of the vehicle and the cloud, with a three-fold increase in response speed and a two-fold increase in interaction capabilities, bringing a more humanized and user-friendly intelligent interactive experience. In addition, compared with the traditional large model, which cannot retrieve information in real time, the GAC large model is more intelligent, able to retrieve massive real-time information and process it, and any question can be answered immediately, with pictures and texts. In 2025, GAC's on-board space interaction system will break through the limitations of the screen and realize virtual reality hybrid interaction, in 2026, GAC Group will build a complete operation system covering life and entertainment, car-home interconnection and health services, and in 2027, it will realize the full-scene and all-intelligent active emotional interaction of the intelligent cockpit, taking the lead in product experience.
Create three-dimensional travel and lay out low-altitude economy
The leading intelligent travel is a full-scene and three-dimensional mode covering from private travel to shared travel, individual travel to group travel, land travel to low-altitude travel. In this regard, GAC has taken the lead in carrying out a comprehensive layout, and will enrich the land travel scene with intelligent shared travel and group travel. Among them, in terms of shared travel, Ruqi Mobility, a subsidiary of GAC Group, has successively launched the first fully open Robotaxi (driverless taxi) operation technology platform and Robotaxi operation vehicle management system in China. At present, Ruqi Mobility has started the commercial operation of L4 Robotaxi, and Andi Technology, a joint venture between GAC and Didi, will also launch the first commercial L4 autonomous driving model in 2025. In terms of group travel, the first intelligent small and medium-sized bus with L4 function, Robobus (driverless bus), the first intelligent small and medium-sized bus with L4 function incubated by GAC, will be mass-produced by the end of this year.
Combined with the low-altitude economy, GAC Group is studying how to better integrate the flight cabin with the car form, accelerate the industrialization of the new model of "flight + car", and plan to launch a flying car demonstration operation plan by 2027, and create an intercity three-dimensional travel model in 2-3 cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. By 2027, GAC Group will help build a "one-hour living circle in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" with a full-chain three-dimensional smart travel.
Expand the circle of intelligent friends and enter the humanoid robot
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the blockbuster strategic model and the "Zhixing 2027" action plan, GAC Group will increase investment in intelligent ecosystem building, R&D and talents.
At present, GAC Group is actively working with leading enterprises in the industry to jointly build a "smart circle of friends" with strong alliances. In addition to the establishment of Andi Technology Co., Ltd. with Didi, Galaxy Zhilian, a joint venture between GAC Group and iFLYTEK three years ago, has successfully launched a number of innovative products to help GAC comprehensively upgrade its intelligence and bring users a new travel experience. In addition, GAC has continued to cooperate with giants such as Huawei and Tencent to make joint efforts in the shaping of new mobility ecosystems and intelligent connected services, and has cooperated with technology companies such as NVIDIA to take the lead in mass production of next-generation L4 autonomous vehicles with higher computing power in 2025.
In addition, it is worth noting that vigorously developing the humanoid robot industry has become an important national strategy and has a wide range of prospects. GAC Group is also combining intelligent manufacturing, automotive aftermarket services, smart life and other fields, and working with global leading enterprises to explore the bright future application scenarios of humanoid robots.
Through the vertical and horizontal synergy of the industrial chain, GAC Group will gradually complete the super intelligent industrial ecological layout covering autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, data platform, humanoid robots and other technical fields, and make every effort to accelerate the implementation of the intelligent strategy.
At the same time, the abundant investment in R&D and talents is the confidence of GAC Group to comprehensively promote intelligence. At present, GAC Group has taken the lead in setting up a 30 billion yuan industrial development fund to invest in intelligent networked new energy related industries, promote the coordinated development of the entire industrial chain, and will continue to increase R&D investment in the future.
Facing the grand blueprint of "trillion GAC", GAC Group, which has the four advantages of brand, capital, location and scenario, will be guided by the "Zhixing 2027" action plan to create a full-scene and all-intelligent three-dimensional travel solution, strive to become a world-class leader in smart mobility, expand new quality productivity with scientific and technological innovation, and contribute to the realization of China's dream of becoming an automobile power.