91 Ten Articles: Jidu invests 50 billion yuan in car manufacturing, and my country may mass-produce L5 autonomous driving vehicles by 2030

1. Jidu Auto, the electric vehicle joint venture between Baidu and Geely, recently revealed that it plans to recruit 2,500 to 3,000 people, including 400 to 500 software engineers, invest 50 billion yuan to manufacture smart cars, strive to launch its first electric car within three years, and consider using the Kunlun chip designed by Baidu in it.

2. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President Toshihiro Mibe said that in the next five years, 10 pure electric vehicles will be launched in the Chinese market. Including FCV models, Honda's sales proportion of new energy vehicles in China will increase year by year, reaching 40% in 2030, 80% in 2035, and 100% in 2040.

3. Because "the field of autonomous vehicles is a global market opportunity worth about $8 trillion. But the United States is at risk of losing its position as a technological leader in the field of autonomous vehicles," two U.S. senators are pushing for autonomous driving legislation to exempt each automaker's autonomous vehicles from the restrictions of safety standards related to human drivers, from the current 15,000 vehicles to 80,000 vehicles in three years. In other words, if the bill is passed, there will be more driverless vehicles exempted by the law on the roads of the United States in the future. The current law only allows 2,500 exemptions for each automaker.

4. According to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, in the first quarter of this year, new energy vehicles accounted for 15% of European passenger car sales. Among them, the sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles grew faster than pure electric vehicles.

5. A Tesla in Texas, USA, caused a traffic accident that resulted in two casualties. Because the situation was serious, the Harris County Police in Texas issued a search warrant to Tesla to obtain all the data of the accident vehicle. Tesla CEO Musk responded that the accident vehicle did not turn on the autopilot system. The data logs currently recovered show that the autopilot system (Autopilot) was not turned on, and the car did not purchase the full autopilot system (FSD). In addition, the standard autopilot system requires lane lines to be turned on, and the street where the accident occurred did not have lane lines.

6. Data from the China Hydrogen Energy Alliance shows that as of the end of 2020, there were approximately 544 hydrogen refueling stations in the world, 128 of which had been built in my country, and the cumulative number of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in operation had reached more than 7,000.

7. Hou Fushen, deputy secretary-general of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, said that by 2025, China is expected to achieve 70% of mass-produced new models with L3 level of autonomous driving, and by 2030, it is expected to achieve mass production of L5 level autonomous driving vehicles.

8. Hyundai Motor is advancing the research and development of solid-state batteries, and plans to trial-produce electric vehicles equipped with solid-state batteries in 2025, partially mass-produce them in 2027, and achieve full mass production in 2030.

9. UBS pointed out that the shortage of automotive chips will lead to a production cut of 1 million vehicles in the global automotive industry. This situation will not be alleviated until the second quarter.

10. GAC Honda Haoying Rui Hybrid e+ will be officially launched in the second half of this year. It will adopt a plug-in hybrid system and have a NEDC pure electric range of 85 kilometers.

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.