GAC Aion, the electrical automobile subsidiary of Guangzhou Vehicle Group (GAC Group), and DiDi Autonomous Driving have deepened their collaboration. They’ve revealed their first collectively developed Degree 4 (L4) autonomous automobile and are focusing on mass manufacturing by the top of 2025.
The automobile’s current unveiling follows the official enterprise license approval for his or her 50/50 three way partnership, Guangzhou Andi Expertise Co., Ltd., headquartered in Huangpu, Guangzhou. This enterprise is the primary established between a significant automaker and an L4 autonomous driving firm centered on mass-producing robotaxis.
The primary mannequin from Andi Expertise is a crossover SUV constructed upon GAC Aion’s AEP 3.0 devoted electrical platform and its superior Star Spirit digital and electrical structure. Crucially, it integrates DiDi Autonomous Driving’s full L4 expertise stack. This consists of DiDi’s {hardware} platform that includes 33 sensors – encompassing LiDAR, cameras, 4D millimeter-wave radar, infrared cameras, and sound sensors – designed for 360-degree, all-weather notion utilizing multi-sensor fusion strategies.
Powering the autonomous capabilities is a high-performance central computing platform with GPU compute exceeding 2000 TOPS and a 48-core CPU, enabling low-latency processing of huge sensor knowledge for complicated driving selections. To make sure reliability, the automobile structure incorporates security redundancies throughout algorithms, software program, and a number of {hardware} layers (together with braking, steering, communication, and energy techniques). Constructed to satisfy each Chinese language and European five-star security requirements, it additionally options GAC Aion’s proprietary Journal Battery expertise for enhanced battery security. The design considers ride-sharing operations explicitly, that includes enhanced rear passenger area, security, and a multimodal interplay system.
The companions plan an preliminary large-scale deployment, aiming for tens of 1000’s of items. These autos can be built-in with DiDi’s “Huiju Port” (慧桔港) clever autonomous automobile operations system and deployed onto the DiDi ride-hailing community utilizing a mixed-dispatch mannequin alongside human-driven autos.
This L4 initiative is a part of GAC Group’s broader push into clever driving. The corporate additionally targets launching its first L3-capable passenger automobile for the patron market within the fourth quarter of 2025, with extra L3 fashions deliberate for 2026. GAC Group Chairman Feng Xingya acknowledged that the purpose is for GAC’s autonomous driving capabilities to be in China’s high tier by 2025 and among the many international leaders by 2027. GAC additionally collaborates with different autonomous driving firms like Pony.ai for its robotaxi operations, which have already collected over 40 million kilometers throughout 5 Chinese language cities.
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