shan 520, was presented. CATL's Choco-SEB (Swapping Electric Block) batteries can provide a range of 500km after a two-minute swap at the swap station. In addition, Changan agreed to a partnership with NIO Inc. (NIO) on battery swap business in November 2023.   Distributed electric drive   The Tops e-Drive Distributed Electric Drive (Tops e-Drive system was presented at the 4th Changan Tech Ecosystem Conference in October 2024. There are two...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/12

sis is based on Huawei's IDVP (Intelligent Digital Vehicle Platform). It adopts a configuration of intelligent center + domain control. It uses Gigabit Ethernet as its backbone network, connects to more than 200 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), and has a processing capacity of up to 1,000 TOPS. Active safety in the event of side impact: If a side collision cannot be avoided, the suspension automatically rises and the vehicle's side sill...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/07

Chinese Market 2024: Sales Volume 31.4M units, Chinese OEMs Share over 65% BYD leads the pack; Seres, in development partnership with Huawei, sees significant growth Summary 2024 vehicle sales in China up 4.5% y/y to 31.4M units Sales by group: BYD tops the list, Geely and Chery perform well Passenger car market: Chinese-OEMs share exceeds 65% Sales by vehicle type : SUVs account for 53.8% of the PV market; many BYD in the Top 10 sedans and hatch...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/19

vusion) Continental Smartmicro Hangzhou OLE SiLC Indie Semiconductor SMK Electronics Hesai SolidVue Micradar StreamTeck Scientific Hybrid Lidar SOS LAB Millilab Tarla.io Indie Semiconductor SteerLight Magna (imaging) Texas Instruments Innoviz Valeo Neural Propulsion(NPS) Xandar Kardian Itops Automotive VanJee Tech Novelic (in-cabin) Zadar Labs (imaging Koito & NAL Voyant Photonics NXP Lidwave Vueron Tech Luminar YellowScan ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/19

more than 30 sensors such as cameras, millimeter-wave radar, ultrasonic radar, lidar, and others. Cameras are being introduced across the board with 8-megapixel sensors, and LiDAR is also becoming more commonplace in cars. The computing power of autonomous driving has increased from several hundred TOPS to 1,000 TOPS.   2) Improved integration density E/E architecture Currently, E/E architecture is undergoing a transition from a decentralized...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/18

d ASIMO OS for 0 Series production models. Honda and Renesas Electronics also announced an agreement to develop a SoC for the 0 Series. The two companies aim to develop a system using multi-die chiplet technology combining Renesas’ Gen 5 R-Car X5 SoC with an AI accelerator to achieve up to 2,000 TOPS.   Honda also announced that its 0 Series will be capable of SAE Level 3 autonomous functions, using Honda AI technology based on Helm.ai’s le...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/06

its infotainment and ADAS systems. It is expected to include up to 40 sensors comprised of 18 cameras, 1 lidar, 9 radars, and 12 ultrasonic sensors, along with a driver monitoring camera. In collaboration with Qualcomm, the Afeela 1 uses the Snapdragon Ride Platform SoC and is capable of up to 800 TOPS. This allows SAE Level 2 and 2+ functions and the future implementation of Level 3 autonomous features through OTA updates. AI technologies such ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/24

p to 12 satellite cameras, multiple radar units, ultrasonic sonar sensors, and LiDAR units. In addition, the ZF Pro AI, which could also become a central ECU, is currently under development for mass production in 2025. It also addresses thermal issues by achieving a maximum computing speed of 1,500 TOPS (tera operations per second) while achieving extremely good energy efficiency of 5 TOPS/W.   Valeo Group (Valeo)  Valeo Group (Valeo) has deliv...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/09

latform + Ethernet Ring Network E/E architecture. The super central computing platform realizes a computing architecture that integrates the cabin, driving, and parking. Five areas are integrated: intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, body, power, and chassis. With AI computing power of 8-1,000 TOPS or more, it can efficiently process large amounts of data. The Ethernet ring network communication bandwidth is 1,000M, and the fault switching r...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/08

rdware technology architecture, achieving the technology iteration from Robotaxi 1.0 to Robotaxi 4.0 (as shown in the table below) by 2025, and building mass-produced L4 intelligent driving technology for major cities across China. Robotaxi 1.0(2021) Mechanical LiDAR, low-resolution cameras, 600 TOPS industrial-use computer Robotaxi 2.0(2022) Solid-state LiDAR, high-resolution cameras, 1,000TOPS industrial-use computer, for both remote drivi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/26

e is 12.7%, BYD 11.5%, and Geely in the top 5 Market share by vehicle type: SUVs at 45.0%, commercial vehicles steady Passenger car market: Chinese automakers have 62.5% share; BYD leading with 1,607,000 units; Japanese OEMs below 1.5 million units Exports grow 30.5% to 2,793,000 units; Lexus brand tops the list of imports Top 3 NEV sellers are BYD, Tesla, and SAIC-GM-Wuling China H1 2024 vehicle sales (ex-factory) by major groups GlobalData Sale...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/20

ctions to the vehicle. After getting out of the vehicle, simple operation of the smartphone app will automatically move the vehicle to the parking space. When boarding, the vehicle drives itself to the boarding area in the same way. If the vehicle detects a person or other object, it automatically stops. In January 2023, European car park operator APCOA announced that it had signed an agreement to expand the deployment of automated valet parking ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/19

stings such as gigacasts, which are in the 6,000-ton class. Ryobi is also reportedly preparing to support gigacasts, and there were many exhibits of large-scale die-cast products of 3,500 ton and 2,500 ton similar to gigacasts.   On display were large frame components such as shock towers and cowl tops.   One of the factors in the replacement of steel frame members with aluminum die castings is that ribbing and other three-dimensional modificat...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/06

pre-trained models to process data and perform analysis)  post-processing (making decisions based on AI output and activating the system)   AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 ©2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Compared to the first generation, it has up to 3x more TOPS (Terra Operations per Second) per watt and up to 10x more CPU-based scalar computing power (Arm CPU), 10x Arm Cortex-R52 real-time processors, an...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/03

rmanent magnet motor has similarities to older designs. It has a magnet V array similar to the Model S Plaid but with a closed design. The laminate offset is not a sequential step design and only has two positions. The keeper plate for the permanent magnet motor is not as large, exposing the magnet tops and laminate for what Sandy Munro speculated was cooling purposes. Finally, the motor stators use a new hairpin design which can be wound using o...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/21

gradient 37.5 degrees, drop 85m, total length 180m, adhesion coefficient 0.3-0.4).   In the area of intelligent-related systems, the car is equipped with BYD’s “God's Eye” advanced driver assistance system, which integrates three LiDARs, five millimeter wave radars, and 13 cameras with a 508TOPS computing platform.   In terms of comfort and performance, the U7 is the first model equipped with the "DiSus-Z" intelligent vehicle control sys...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/15

D (Blade) CATL (Shenxing) CATL (Qilin) Range (CLTC mode) 700km 830km 800km Battery capacity 73.6kWh 94.3kWh 101kWh Range on a 15-minute charge 350km 350km 510km Automated driving Automotive semiconductors NVIDIA DRIVE Orin NVIDIA DRIVE Orin × 2 NVIDIA DRIVE Orin × 2 Computing power 84TOPS 508TOPS 508TOPS Camera/Radar - Camera Camera + Radar Standard equipment Adaptive Cruise ControlLane Keeping AssistAssisted Lane ChangeSmart p...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/02

28, and the total length of the wire harnesses was shortened from 1,800m to 1,500m. The SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) will have more than 500 interfaces (more than 200 have already been released). Intelligent cockpit Built on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 chip, AI computing power reaches 30 TOPs, and memory and storage capacity is 16G + 128G. The system is equipped with the Leapmotor OS interactive system developed in-house, the LEAP Soun...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/24

043 1,600 709 * Companies reported zero disengagement Data Source: California DMV; Table Source: VSI Labs, February 2024   This ranking favors the companies that have done most of their testing in the last few years if their miles per disengagements were good. It is interesting that Argo.ai tops this list as it had good data for 2020-2022. No testing in 2023 as Argo was shut down.   Of the companies with disengagements in 2023, Zoox had ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/23

l and medium-sized AI models. It enables rapid iterative upgrades of vehicle features. The cockpit and driving are designed as one, supporting a 3D UI (user interface) in the cabin, voice modeling, and complex algorithm models for smart driving. In the future, it is planned to be equipped with 1000 TOPS and 2000 TOPS "cockpit and driving operation integrated" chips. Two Ends Cloud-side AI, vehicle-side AI Real-time collaboration, fusion of elec...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/03/08