Self-driving

The two companies will collaborate on a lower cost, mass-production-ready L4 autonomous driving front-end solution based on solid-state LiDARs.

BYD is responsible for the development, testing, and production of the vehicle, and provides the blade battery, motor, and motor controller.

The combined testing mileage of self-driving vehicles in Beijing has exceeded 3 million kilometers.

These all-electric Robobuses have no steering wheel, accelerator pedal or brake pedal and operate seven days a week.

The two parties aim to build lower-cost L4 autonomous driving solutions based on solid-state LiDARs to help drive mass adoption of the technology.

The joint venture is expected to be officially launched by early 2022, with an initial fleet of more than 100 smart-driving heavy trucks.

The production facility is capable of assembling Robotaxis to a high level of precision and consistency, with the vehicles starting to operate autonomously as soon as they leave the facility's gates.

Haomo expects its assisted driving system to be available on 34 Great Wall Motor passenger vehicle models by the end of 2022, with more than 1 million vehicles using the system over the next three years.

Robotaxi has the largest market space in autonomous driving application scenarios and is also the most challenging in terms of L4 autonomous driving technology, according to CITIC Securities.

GAC and WeRide plan to gradually build a fleet of Robotaxi in the tens of thousands of vehicles over the next few years.