Questioning 2024, where will China's automobile industry go next year? - Technology by Asiautos Auto Parts(China Car Aftermarket Parts Expert)

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1AI landing in the automotive field 

● Review: 2024 is the year when the intelligent transformation of the automotive industry is accelerated.

◎ Volkswagen connects ChatGPT in series, opening the precedent of combining automobiles with advanced language models.

◎ Mercedes-Benz launched the MBUX virtual assistant to bring users a more intelligent and convenient driving experience.

◎ Chinese new forces such as Xiaopeng, Weilai, and Ideal are also not to be outdone and have made efforts.

◎ Technology giants such as Xiaomi and Hongmeng have also joined the battle, rewriting the algorithms and logic of smart cars by providing intelligent execution links from voice to car functions, and pushing the entire industry towards a new stage of intelligence.       

Many automobile companies are aware of the potential of humanoid robots in future travel, and have begun to build humanoid robot teams, layout spatial intelligence, and are committed to building an integrated team.

● Looking forward to 2025, the goal of automobile companies is to become an important player in the field of general artificial intelligence assistants. Ideal and other automobile companies have begun to think about how to open up the synergy between automobiles and robots. Automobile companies have gradually evolved into a base for intelligent manufacturing, but in the development of the brain (i.e. core intelligent technology), they still need to continue to explore and practice.

2 Intelligent Driving 

● Looking back at 2024:

◎ The advent of Tesla's FSD V12 end-to-end large model architecture has brought new technical ideas to the field of intelligent driving. 

◎ Affected by it, Chinese car companies such as Huawei, Xiaopeng, Ideal, and Weilai have followed suit and started to adopt similar intelligent driving technology architectures. 

◎ At the same time, third-party companies such as Momenta, DJI, and Horizon are also catching up rapidly, forming a situation of multi-party competition and rapid technological development.

The decline in hardware costs has become a market trend this year. Intelligent driving functions within 150,000 yuan have begun to land, and pure vision has a good development prospect. It is expected that new cars within 100,000 yuan will be equipped with intelligent driving functions.

● Outlook: By 2025, leading car companies will increase their investment in computing power and collect more data by delegating NOA (Navigate on Autopilot, navigation assisted driving) functions. 

It is expected that intelligent driving vehicles will be popularized in models with a price of 100,000 or even lower. China's powerful car companies will participate in this intelligent driving competition, and intelligent driving technology will become more mature and popular.

3 Chassis system 

● Review: The chassis system in 2024 presents diversified innovations.

◎ The fully active suspension of NIO ET9 Tianxing intelligent chassis can shake off the snow and continuously challenge the champagne tower experiment, demonstrating the new capabilities of the chassis in dealing with complex road conditions.

◎ Looking up at U7, Yunnian - Z adopts a suspended motor hydraulic shock absorber to ensure the smoothness of driving.

◎ Wenjie M9 adds road pre-aiming and adaptive active suspension to improve driving comfort and safety.

◎ Xiaomi releases chassis technology reserves to lay the foundation for the future development of chassis technology. 

Chassis functions are constantly upgraded, from traditional mechanical control to electric drive control, laying the groundwork for future chassis competition. 

● Looking forward to 2025, chassis technology will begin to change paradigms around driving and comfort. 

Chinese automakers will gradually enter a new stage of independent research and development and technology openness from relying on suppliers for development. Chassis technology must not only have technical value, but also convey emotional value. This field will continue to receive attention and development, bringing more driving pleasure to users.

4 Hybrid Drive 

● Review: In 2024, hybrid drive technology has made significant progress.

◎ BYD's fifth-generation DM hybrid technology has a thermal efficiency of over 46%, and its fuel consumption is as low as 2.1L/100km when it is out of power. The comprehensive range of a single vehicle exceeds 2100km, showing the advantages of low fuel consumption and long range.

◎ Geely Thor EM-i and Chery C-DM hybrid technologies have also emerged in the market, highlighting the technical strength of Chinese automakers in the field of hybrids. 

◎ Changan's main propulsion stage has an internal thermal efficiency of 44.28%, and an oil-to-electric conversion coefficient of 3.63kWh/L. The efficient range-extending system is constantly iterating, and the hybrid track is fiercely competing around electric drive characteristics and fuel consumption. 

● Outlook: 2025 will be a year of continued growth in range-extending and plug-in hybrids. Almost all Chinese automakers have invested resources in this field, pursuing higher efficiency, better user experience and lower costs, and further increasing the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China.

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