[Will be transformed into a travel service company and look at what the mainland Group has done for the transformation in these years? Recently, Continental, the veteran supplier of the automotive industry, released the 2017 Sustainability Report before the Beijing Auto Show, and highlighted several major measures taken by the Group to transform its travel service company, including autopilot, new energy, smart interconnect, etc. An important direction.
It is interesting to note that the executives of the mainland China Group debuted this year and did not wear suits and shoes. The appearance used was shirt + jeans + sports shoes commonly used by Internet technology companies. This is to show that the mainland is moving toward a technology company and a travel service company.
Based on China's travel market, the mainland has identified three major elements for the future: safety, cleanliness, and intelligence. Correspondingly, there are three areas: automatic (assisting) driving, new energy vehicles, and smart network (smart travel).
A closer look will reveal that the mainland has done a lot of work in these areas.
Automated Driving: Triple Play Construction System
On autopilot, Huo Bin, vice president of the Continental Chassis and Safety Division and general manager of China, said that the mainland believes that no automaker and Tier-1 can independently handle autonomous driving. Therefore, the mainland’s choice is to adopt an alliance style of play. , Build a self-driving eco-system, and play the advantages of various companies within the ecosystem.
Based on this concept, mainland China joined the auto-piloting alliance of Intel, BMW, and Mobileye last year, and it has become a partner of Baidu's Apollo automatic driving platform. At the beginning of this year, the mainland also announced cooperation with Nvidia to develop an autonomous driving system based on artificial intelligence. In addition, the mainland has a small stake in shares than an unmanned travel company Easymile.
On the basis of cooperation and self-developed technology, the mainland has built a three-tiered structure of the autopilot system:
The first level, called autonomous cruising, is a mid-to-high-speed automatic driving solution for passenger cars.
The second floor is autonomous parking, that is, the vehicle's own parking function under low-speed conditions, and it also includes vehicle calls under the same scenario.
The third level is the unmanned travel program CUbE. Its product form is a driverless minibus and is responsible for solving the last mile in urban traffic.
Together these three options form a "seamless ride" travel plan for the mainland. Its core philosophy is to provide more comprehensive travel services.
In order to achieve this set of autonomous driving trips, the mainland has planned a set of technologies and product solutions, including sensors, controllers, software algorithms, computing platforms, and vehicle networking. Its system is very complete, and it basically achieves full coverage of important areas of automatic driving.
Interestingly, the mainland has added special tyres to its technical product system. Corresponding to the need for automatic driving, Continental has introduced ContiSense and ContiAdapt tire technology. The former has a large number of sensors built into the tires to detect various information such as lap speed, temperature, and tire pressure, and communicates with the computational center of automatic driving. The decision-making provides information support; the latter allows tires to have variable tire pressure capabilities to suit different driving scenarios.
In the automatic driving planning schedule, the mainland’s plan is to achieve partial autopilot in 2016, highly autopilot in 2020, and full autopilot in 2025.
New Energy Direction: 48V Light Mixing and Pure Electric Drive
When the automotive industry strongly changes its focus on electrification, the mainland believes that the traditional fuel vehicles have not yet come to an end. Therefore, the powertrain division of the mainland is still updating its plans for the lightweight design of fuel filter piping assemblies and powertrains. Help cars reduce fuel consumption and reduce carbon emissions.
At the same time, the mainland has done more work on electric drive technology. First of all, hybrid technology, the 48-volt light mixing provided by the mainland can effectively reduce fuel consumption. The 48-volt light-blend is a relatively recent example of the application of the new Audi A8L, which can support a considerable distance of coasting when the engine is off. Last month, the mainland has signed an agreement with Chengfei to form a joint venture company to produce 48 volt light-mixed batteries.
In addition, in terms of pure electric vehicles, the mainland has a lightweight solution that integrates motors, speed reducers, and inverters. It can support 80-130 kW power output while ensuring lighter weight.
Intelligent Network Alliance: Creating an End-to-End Solution is Cooperation with Huawei C-V2X
Intelligent Networking is China's special emphasis on the direction of automotive development. In this area, the core idea of ​​the mainland is to pack all the problems and provide an end-to-end solution for car networking.
Specifically, the mainland's plan includes the capabilities of remote OTAs and hardware support for on-board gateways. In addition, the mainland will directly address the issue of network security. The mainland has acquired two network security companies, Elektrobit and Argus.
Under a relatively sound system, the mainland partnered with Avic, a car rental company, to provide a solution for keyless entry/keyless start-up through its networking capabilities for its leased vehicles.
In the future of car networking services, the mainland last year and Huawei cooperated to test the new car communication system C-V2X, the result is that the communication delay between vehicles has dropped to 11ms. Earlier, mainland China had a product called E-Horizon that could update map information in real time through V2X networks.
The E-Horizon, which is further coordinated with the C-V2X, will not only be able to update ordinary maps, but also communicate with the transportation infrastructure (V2I), and be able to provide online updates for the high-precision maps that are required for autonomous driving.
In the case that travel services have been highly connected to the Internet, it is of course necessary for good travel service companies to have strong networking solutions and capabilities.
China's high-level mainland: transformation orientation is still the program integrator
After an overview of the transformation of the mainland, some media interviewed the senior management of the Continental Group in China. In response to issues such as the stock-joint ratio, the localization of autonomous driving in mainland China, and the positioning of the mainland itself in the transition, the direct heads of the China President of the Continental Group and the five business divisions made brief remarks.
Regarding the recently opened auto joint venture stock ratio ratio, President and CEO of Continental China Group believes that the mainland will not be affected too much. Compared with the OEM, the status of the mainland Tier-1 determines that the JV ratio policy does not directly affect its role. The mainland's customer base in China is also more extensive, and has a stronger buffer capacity for policy changes.
When asked how the mainland views the competitive relationship between new carmakers and traditional car manufacturers, Mr. Tang stated that the mainland and the two sides have extensive cooperation and are equally committed to the new car. For example, Wei Lai, the mainland is in air suspension, Tire and other aspects have a supply relationship. And Wei Lai is just one of them. There are many new car companies that actually have a cooperative relationship with the mainland.
â–² President and CEO of China Mainland, Tang Yun
In addition, the mainland has just joined the Dixie torrent alliance today, and the mainland is still actively involved in this new direction of building shared-use new energy vehicles.
In the localization of autonomous driving, the mainland's ADAS products are cooperating with most of the OEMs, and its multi-functional camera and millimeter-wave radar have the highest market share. The mainland has started testing and development of autonomous driving in China since 2015, has an R&D center in Shanghai, and has a test site for data collection and testing in Heihe and other places.
However, the mainland has been cautious about its landing of autopilot in China. It has not demonstrated the fact that the mainland is the overlord of the current ADAS market. Here, the author can only add one case: the ADAS program used by Leadke 01 is Continental offers.
In addition, at a higher stage of autonomous driving, Huo Bin, Vice President of the China Chassis and Safety Division and General Manager of China, disclosed that its core control unit for autonomous driving, ADCU, has entered the stage of joint development with the vehicle manufacturer and will be based on The timing of SOP depot products was announced at the right time.
â–² Huo Bin, Vice President of the China Chassis and Safety Division and General Manager of China
ADCU internally uses the computing core. Mainland China and Intel and Nvidia have reached a cooperation. The reason why the mainland chose “two bets†is that this can meet the different needs of the OEMs. Cooperation with Intel and Nvidia can be used for the entire vehicle. The factory offers two different computing core solutions.
In addition, the reporter is concerned that the mainland has taken advantage of Easymile, an unmanned travel service company, and has launched CUbE's driverless shared travel product. Does this mean that the mainland will join in the operation of driverless taxis and become a travel service? Carrier?
In this regard, Huo Bin explained to reporters that in the process of the transformation of the automotive industry, although the mainland has to establish a service provider, its position is still a technology integrator and supplier, and the business model will remain unchanged. provide the solution. CUbE is an important part of the Continental Autonomous Driving Technology System. Its significance is to cooperate with other technologies to form a complete package of travel packages. The driverless sharing of travel services can be carried out by other companies in the mainland's autonomous driving ecosystem. The mainland will not be able to dig into travel service operations, and its Tier-1 status will not change.
Concluding remarks: When automotive suppliers are undergoing transformation
At the time of the profound changes in the auto industry, apart from the fact that automakers are actively changing maps and seeking change, behind them, the parts suppliers who are the mainstays of the auto industry are also rapidly adjusting their own development directions under the new trend.
The mainland, which is driven by auto-driving, new energy vehicles, and intelligent network alliances, is steadily transitioning under its own positioning and provides more solutions for travel services. Actively seeking change is also an important reason why the mainland has been able to expand its business from the rubber factory and tire factory continuously for over 100 years.
Of course, typical representatives in this area include German colleagues from Bosch and ZF. This year, to measure whether an auto parts supplier is a good standard, one may need to add one—whether it is transforming travel service companies.
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