GAC Aion, the electrical car 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 car and are focusing on mass manufacturing by the top of 2025.
The car’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 know-how stack. This contains 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 methods.
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 car structure incorporates security redundancies throughout algorithms, software program, and a number of {hardware} layers (together with braking, steering, communication, and energy techniques). Constructed to fulfill each Chinese language and European five-star security requirements, it additionally options GAC Aion’s proprietary Journal Battery know-how 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 hundreds of models. These automobiles will probably be built-in with DiDi’s “Huiju Port” (慧桔港) clever autonomous car operations system and deployed onto the DiDi ride-hailing community utilizing a mixed-dispatch mannequin alongside human-driven automobiles.
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 car for the buyer market within the fourth quarter of 2025, with extra L3 fashions deliberate for 2026. GAC Group Chairman Feng Xingya said that the aim is for GAC’s autonomous driving capabilities to be in China’s prime tier by 2025 and among the many world leaders by 2027. GAC additionally collaborates with different autonomous driving corporations like Pony.ai for its robotaxi operations, which have already amassed over 40 million kilometers throughout 5 Chinese language cities.
Supply: GAC
