- GWM is hiring smart driving talent from Silicon Valley, according to local media.
- In January-February, GWM sold 158,816 vehicles, down 9.28 percent from a year ago.
Great Wall Motor (GWM) is planning to set up an autonomous driving R&D center in the US to ramp up its bet on the segment, according to a local media report.
The R&D center will be set up in Silicon Valley, and the team will report to GWM's current CTO, Wu Huixiao, tech media Leiphone said in a report yesterday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
GWM is recruiting smart driving talent from Silicon Valley through headhunting, the report said.
Information on the Chinese carmaker's website shows it has technology centers in Detroit and Los Angeles in the US.
GWM spun off its smart driving division in 2019 and set up Haomo.AI Technology, an independent subsidiary focused on smart driving research and development.
Haomo has raised several rounds of funding over the past few years and is still majority owned by GWM.
GWM has Haomo's smart driving solution on some of its models, but the city NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) feature is not yet available, Leiphone's report noted.
In addition to its own development and Haomo's solution, GWM is also using smart driving solutions from suppliers.
In November 2024, GWM invested $100 million in DeepRoute, an autonomous driving startup that will develop autonomous driving solutions for some of GWM's models.
Additionally, another Chinese autonomous driving startup, Momenta, has secured orders from GWM, according to Leiphone.
GWM sold 77,883 vehicles in February, up 9.65 percent year-on-year but down 3.77 percent from January, according to data it released earlier this month.
In the January-February period, GWM sold 158,816 vehicles, down 9.28 percent year-on-year.
The company sold 15,121 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in February, up 23.24 percent year-on-year but down 32.08 percent from January.
In the January-February period, GWM sold 37,384 NEVs, essentially flat from the same period last year.
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