The 3rd Changan Automobile Technology Ecosystem Conference opens a new era of "Digital New Automobile"

On September 4, Changan Automobile held the "2023 Changan Automobile Technology Ecosystem Conference" with the theme of "Technology is changing with you", sharing the results and exploration process of the digital intelligence leap, using new cars as carriers, launching the first SDA platform architecture mass production technology results, and interpreting the new cars that will be mass-produced in a scenario-based manner. With the new trend of technological modernization, Changan Automobile will lead the new digital and intelligent track with new digital intelligence results, and join hands with global partners with the concept of openness, cooperation and sharing to jointly open a new era of "digital intelligence new cars".

Zhu Huarong, Chairman and Party Secretary of Changan Automobile, shared his insights into the automotive industry and the company's future development plans - Changan Automobile will firmly promote the "New Automobile New Ecology" strategy, invest a total of 200 billion yuan by 2030, add a scientific and technological innovation team of more than 10,000 people, and achieve group sales of 5 million vehicles, including 4 million Changan brand vehicles, with new energy sales accounting for more than 60% and overseas sales accounting for 30%, becoming a leader in the "Digital New Vehicle" era!

Creating a better future with creativity, Changan Automobile is making a leap towards a better future

Since launching its "third entrepreneurial venture" in 2017, Changan Automobile has always been based on the new development stage and built a new development pattern. In order to meet the people's ever-increasing needs for a better life, it has continued to implement the new energy "Shangri-La" plan, the intelligent "Beidou Tianshu" plan, and the global "Haina Baichuan" plan, and has achieved a series of phased innovative results.

Strengthen technological innovation and leap towards a better future. In recent years, Changan Automobile has established 16 technology and product R&D centers, 17 technology companies, built a 17,000-person technical R&D team, and mastered more than 600 intelligent low-carbon core technologies; deeply cultivated the core technologies of "three electrics", continuously strengthened the research on electric vehicle safety technologies, and created industry-leading technology applications such as iBC digital battery steward, "seven-in-one" super electric drive, and "seven-in-one" intelligent vehicle domain controller; innovatively developed the SDA platform architecture, realized the development of the central + regional ring network architecture and vehicle model installation for global pioneering industrialization, and the system time synchronization accuracy was controlled within 1 microsecond; built an industry-leading "lighthouse factory", constructed a full scene of digital twins, deployed 30 types of algorithm models, realized the digitization of the entire manufacturing process, and improved manufacturing efficiency by 20%; comprehensively promoted digital transformation, built a new business model of "cloud-network-platform-scenario", and continuously optimized the internationally leading lean manufacturing system; insisted on independent control of core technologies, and achieved the industry's first number of patent disclosures in the field of intelligence by August 2023.

Promote product upgrades and move towards a better future. Since 2020, Changan Automobile's newly launched models have achieved 100% networking, and the daily online rate of more than 2.8 million connected vehicles has reached 70%. Avita Technology's new product Avita 11 Hongmeng Edition has locked in orders for more than 5,000 vehicles within a week of its launch. Its first sedan Avita 12 will be launched in the fourth quarter; Deep Blue Automobile successfully launched Deep Blue SL03 and Deep Blue S7, and Deep Blue S7 delivered more than 10,000 vehicles in August; Changan Qiyuan, a "digital evolution new car", will start pre-orders for its first product, Changan Qiyuan A07, this month, and the first product of the E0 series, CD701, will be officially mass-produced and launched next year.

Satisfy user experience and move towards a better future. Changan Automobile has always regarded customer management as the "No. 1 project" and continuously optimized the customer service system and product quality management system. It has won the first place in the satisfaction evaluation of Chinese brands by the China Consumers Association and the China Quality Association for two consecutive years, and this year it won the first place in JDPower's independent brand sales service satisfaction. In addition, Changan Automobile has also built the "Quark Intelligent Computing Center" to support the access and control of more than 10 million smart cars, allowing people to find services instead of services finding people.

Driving digital intelligence, new cars and new ecosystems lead the new era

New energy vehicles are just a prelude, and digital vehicles are the real future! Adhering to the nature of a creator, Changan Automobile has achieved a series of innovative achievements that keep pace with the times. Based on accurate analysis of industry change trends, Changan Automobile has pioneered the industry and launched the "Digital Evolution New Vehicle" Changan Qiyuan, using new vehicles as tentacles to seize the new digital track and define the new digital context. It will be supported by new digital technologies, new products, and new services. In the process of upgrading the energy track to the digital track, Changan Automobile is determined to achieve new leadership!

Mass production of new technologies for digital intelligence applications. Strive to develop a new generation of batteries to ensure international leadership, accelerate the iteration of "chip, device, map, core, cloud, network, and sky" technologies, and create an industry-leading high-level autonomous driving experience based on the "super chip" central ring network architecture. The first developer conference will be held in 2024 to open up service-oriented software architecture, operating system, and value chain in addition to vehicle control.

Create new digital car products. By 2025, Changan Automobile will launch more than 20 blockbuster products worldwide, including 10 Changan Qiyuan models, 6 Deep Blue Auto models, and 4 Avita models. This year, Changan Qiyuan A07, A05, A06 and Q05, and Avita 12 will be launched and delivered.

Providing new digital experience services. Focusing on "full stack and scenario-based", Changan Automobile will create new automotive platform products that continue to evolve, making cars a helper in life, an assistant in work, and a money-maker, and constantly satisfying users' yearning for a better life in the digital era.

A new species emerges, Changan defines new automobile standards

At the Technology Ecology Conference, Wang Jun, President of Changan Automobile, performed a scene-based interpretation of the new car. First, a shocking transformation show was staged. The new car can freely transform into a SUV, pickup truck mode, and camping mode through dome glass, seats, partitions, segmented tailgate, suspension, etc., which amazed and conquered the audience.

In addition, the new car also demonstrated many advanced technologies, such as "autonomous pick-up" that can come at the owner's call, "smart charging" that can "forage" by itself after the owner returns home, and "natural interaction" that is smart and understands you and speaks dialects. These technologies not only amaze people, but also tell us "what is a new car", that is, a new car is one that can change its space and shape according to your needs, a new car that can understand the owner's intentions, a new car that can charge itself, and a new car that is defined by you. Of course, these are just the tip of the iceberg of new cars, and this is just the beginning, because the new car defines not only a car, but also an open car ecosystem.

The process of new cars subverting traditional cars has begun. New cars built on the freely defined and self-evolving SDA platform are the concentrated embodiment of intelligence, low carbon, travel and technology in the new era. The original meaning of "SDA" is "Super DNA", which makes new cars have innate intelligence and understanding of you.

Based on this, Changan Automobile has defined four new standards for cars: the scenarios can be arranged, with more than 1,000 service interfaces to meet the needs of various scenarios and customize the combination at will, so that everyone can be the designer of their own life. At the same time, it is necessary to support hardware pluggability, so that "changing the chip without changing the car" will no longer be a dream, perfectly solving the user pain point of fast update and iteration of new energy vehicles, allowing users to play with cars like playing with Lego; it is also necessary to have an ecosystem that can be on demand, provide hardware connection products such as "X-Port" and "Smart Dock", and support seamless hardware access. It is worth mentioning that the world's first "vehicle-mounted satellite communication" technology based on low-orbit satellites is launched to ensure that the vehicle is connected to the Internet at any time and will not lose connection; it will also launch "Tops House" to provide users with a wealth of car control and entertainment software downloads; it is also necessary to have a self-evolution system, based on the Quark intelligent computing center to support the access and control of more than 10 million smart cars, so that the car will become smarter and smarter.

The integration of "three intelligences" is transformed into scientific and technological productivity, and Changan Xianda's future

So, why is the new car so "smart", so "understanding you", and even able to transform freely? The key lies in giving it the three major capabilities of "intelligent brain", "intelligent body" and "intelligent service", and these three capabilities have been integrated into the SDA architecture.

First of all, a powerful "intelligent brain" was created. It is equipped with the country's first independently designed cabin-driving integrated "UNIBrain super brain central computing platform", with a maximum computing power of more than 1000Tops, and the first mass-produced multi-mode fusion BEV perception algorithm, which can complete a minimum of 1500 perception model inferences per second, ranking first in the evaluation of global authoritative institutions. At the same time, the "RateX operating system" was independently created to form a software base of "hardware sharing, software and hard decoupling, and software and software separation". The system response time is less than 5 microseconds, and the RTOS kernel security level reaches ASIL-D. On top of this, the "Quark Intelligent Computing Center" was built, with a computing power of more than 600 P Flops, a storage capacity of 100 PB, and a daily data processing volume of 100 T. I believe that the quantitative change of data will eventually bring about a qualitative change in experience.

Secondly, a new intelligent base "Intelligent Body" has been developed. Based on the "central + ring network" architecture, a highest Gigabit ring Ethernet communication network like a "data high-speed rail" has been created, which is the first to apply time-sensitive technology (TSN) to automobiles, with system time synchronization accuracy ≤ 1 microsecond. At the control level, a regional controller integrating network management and domain control has been created. At present, cross-domain integration of more than 16 controllers has been completed, providing more than 1,000 service interfaces; at the execution level, the standardization of the computing platform and control platform interfaces has been promoted, which greatly reduces the complexity and production cost of the whole vehicle and improves development efficiency. Relying on the "Intelligent Body", by 2027, Changan Automobile will complete the integration and migration of major object control systems such as body, thermal management, power, and chassis.

Finally, in the realm of unity of "body" and "brain", "intelligent service" was created. First of all, Changan Automobile has built a scene brain that can perceive the status of the vehicle and the driver in real time, realize more than 200 active interaction scenes, 52 active service scenes, and 28 intelligent recommendation scenes, based on two deep learning network models of scene decision-making and service recommendation, to bring users a scene-customized car experience. Secondly, through the standardization of IO interfaces, hardware upgrades become possible. It also provides seven categories of service API interfaces and various platform tools to support the free access of vehicle-mounted devices and consumer electronic devices. Based on this, it also launched the "ConnectX software and hardware open platform", becoming the world's first car company to create an open ecosystem for smart cars.

In addition to expanding the ecological boundaries, "smart services" will also pursue a more extreme experience. For example, in the field of daily lighting effects, the "Lighting Studio" was launched for the first time, which supports independent control of 28 lamps in the whole car and provides more than 100 lighting service interfaces. The atmosphere lights, DLP projection headlights and digital front faces in the car can all support lighting arrangement, so that the interior space can be turned into a light show with thousands of faces for thousands of people. In terms of sound effects, Changan created "SoundScape technology", which is based on the real-time audio framework of DSP, equipped with RNC active noise reduction service, and launched the world's first mass-produced AI composition engine "Voice of the Journey", which can automatically identify driving scenes and generate real-time music scores.

Innovative species, the future has arrived. In the era of "digital new cars", the automotive industry has more room for imagination, and it is also the coordinated progress of the entire automotive digital ecology. The era of "digital new cars" has arrived, and new species of cars are within reach. Changan Automobile will continue to uphold the mission of "leading automotive civilization and benefiting human life" and work hand in hand with global partners to provide users with value-added products and services that are what you think is what you see, what you see is what you get, making people's car life more beautiful and colorful, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the industry and reconstruct a new pattern of the world's automobiles!

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.