/PRCWT/Beijing, October 07, 2023 - The intelligent and connected process of the automotive industry continues to accelerate.
At the recently held 2023 World Intelligent Connected Automobile Conference, BAIC New Energy's high-end intelligent new energy automobile brand Polar Fox was unveiled as the official designated vehicle of the conference, showing the intelligent and connected innovation achievements of BAIC New Energy for global car companies and industry organizations.
As one of the earliest car companies in the field of intelligent network connectivity in China, BAIC New Energy, on the basis of continuously consolidating the research and development and design of pure electric passenger vehicles and the technological advantages of the three power systems, resolutely makes efforts in the key core areas of intelligent network connectivity such as intelligent driving, digital cloud platform, intelligent cockpit, and through independent innovation and cross-border cooperation, to create high-level intelligent driving solutions with user needs as the core. Leading the development of the commercial application of intelligent connected vehicles.
From 0 to 1, the "highlight" of BAIC new energy
In 2017, China's advanced intelligent driving has just started, in the absence of mature cases, BAIC new Energy anchored the intelligent electric circuit, combined with Huawei, Magna and other global high-quality partners, began to develop the world's first commercial 5G fully redundant architecture electric hardware platform - IMC intelligent module standard architecture. The architecture has the four characteristics of super expansion, super intelligence, super interaction and super evolution, supporting 5G communication, gigabit Ethernet for the whole vehicle, and high computing power electronic and electrical architecture, ensuring the fast and accurate interaction of a large number of LiDAR based sensing systems, and enabling the polar car to achieve the perfect match of hardware and software of high-class intelligent driving and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence.
The advanced version of the Polar Fox Alpha S, which was upgraded and listed in May 2022, can be called the "highlight" representative of the IMC platform model, and has achieved a number of breakthroughs from 0 to 1 in the field of high-level intelligent driving. At the technical level, the Alpha S advance version is the first model equipped with three liDAR and adopts a "full redundancy" architecture, and is also the first model in the industry to support advanced intelligent driving and cross-layer valet parking on urban roads. At the application level, the Alpha S advance version is the first production vehicle to achieve urban NCA landing applications.
The excellent performance of the Alpha S advance version in intelligent driving has also won many endorsements from third-party authorities in the industry, setting an industry benchmark in the intelligent driving industry.
In the second batch of model evaluation of China Automotive Research Institute IVISTA China Intelligent Car Index 2023, the Pole Fox Alpha S advance version has become the only five-star intelligent car with four tests of intelligent driving, intelligent safety, intelligent interaction, intelligent energy efficiency, and intelligent parking A-level evaluation. It is worth mentioning that in the navigation intelligent driving test, the polar Fox Alpha S advance version pulled the evaluation score to more than 90 points for the first time, breaking through the ceiling of China's intelligent driving with 94.22 points.
In addition, in the intelligent driving "ultimate duel" organized by the Automobile Evaluation Management Center of the China Automobile Center in July this year, the polar Fox Alpha S advance version led all models on the market with intelligence as a selling point, and obtained the first overall evaluation result.
First step, BAIC new energy to promote intelligent driving upgrade iteration
During the current World Intelligent Connected Car Conference, representatives of a number of car companies reached a consensus that in the development of intelligent connected cars in China, intelligent driving back to the commercial nature is an important trend, and the landing application scenario has become the key. In the practice of promoting the commercial application of intelligent connected vehicles, BAIC New Energy has been based on the scenario-based car manufacturing, starting from the actual needs of users, and constantly improving the intelligent value of products.
Since the upgrade, the polar Fox Alpha S advance version has opened the urban NCA(navigation assistance driving) function in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Hangzhou, Chongqing six cities, up to now, the mileage of the Alpha S advance version of NCA has exceeded 1 million kilometers, and the driving track has covered more than 260 cities across the country.
In addition, in order to keep the user's intelligent driving experience ahead, the polar Fox Alpha S advance version maintains the rhythm of iterative optimization every quarter. Since the start of delivery, BAIC New Energy has carried out six OTA upgrades to the Alpha S advance version, and each upgrade will improve the "driving age" of the vehicle, bringing users a more and more "smart" car experience. At present, the polar Fox Alpha S advance version of the urban NCA function has been able to accurately change lanes and follow the car, autonomously identify traffic lights, automatically give way to pedestrians, and automatically turn around, whether it is a complex congested urban road or a large curvature curve, polar Fox Alpha S advance version can help users save driving energy and travel smoothly under the premise of ensuring safety.
It can be said that a new round of travel revolution driven by the intelligent transformation of automobiles has kicked off, and intelligent network connection has become the key to the core competitiveness of car enterprises in the next stage. With the polar Fox Alpha S advance version leading the way, BAIC New Energy has begun the core data accumulation in the field of intelligent driving, and successfully took the first step of intelligent network connection from scratch. In the next step, BAIC New Energy will continue to promote technological change with high R&D investment in the field of intelligent network technology, uphold an open attitude, and lead the integrated development of the automotive industry and intelligent network ecology through independent innovation and industrial cooperation.
