Building the world's strongest intelligent alliance, WM Motor releases IdeaL4 new technology strategy

[September 9, 2020] WM Motor, the leading smart car company, released its new technology strategy IdeaL4 at the "Tomorrow Talk" online media communication conference to continuously enhance WM Motor's core product strength and ultimately form a smart technology ecosystem that integrates "people-car-environment". The release of this strategy marks that WM Motor has joined hands with Qualcomm, Baidu, Tsinghua Unigroup, Xinxin and other partners in the field of intelligence to form the strongest smart alliance in car manufacturing, jointly create future smart travel terminals, and bring smarter cars to Chinese users.

WM Motor releases new technology strategy IdeaL4

Released the new technology strategy of IdeaL4 to form the strongest intelligent ally in car manufacturing

Under the top-level strategic design of building a strong automobile country with intelligent connected cars as the carrier, automobile intelligence is starting from the cockpit and taking off in autonomous driving. In order to accelerate the implementation of forward-looking technologies such as 5G and L4 in smart cars, the fastest mass production and the best experience, WM Motor has released a new technology strategy consisting of Intelligent Cockpit (the smart cockpit that understands Chinese users best), Digital Architecture (the industry's first new self-developed digital architecture), EIC (super platform three-electric system), and Autonomous Driving (core skills of autonomous driving), showing that WM Motor will focus on the future development trend of automobiles and continue to make efforts in four major innovative technology fields.

WM Motor forms the strongest intelligent ally in car manufacturing

Shen Hui, founder, chairman and CEO of WM Motor, said: "The goal of the IdeaL4 technology strategy is to create the 'four major items' for a new smart and beautiful travel life. In the next three to five years, WM Motor will invest RMB 20 billion and bring together 3,000 top global engineers to create an 'EC travel smart terminal' that is more in line with the preferences of Chinese users. This means that WM Motor will combine professional car-making concepts with forward-looking intelligent technology to create a smart car with Everything Connected."

In the next three to five years, WM Motor will invest RMB 20 billion and bring together 3,000 top engineers from around the world.

Intelligent Cockpit: Creating a smart digital cockpit that best understands Chinese users

Based on intelligence, we firmly grasp the core competitiveness of future automobiles. WM Motor has reached a cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a world-leading wireless technology innovator. The two parties will jointly create a new WMConnect smart digital cockpit that is more in line with the needs of Chinese users. With this cooperation as a starting point, WM Motor has become one of the first brands to apply the third-generation Qualcomm SnapdragonTM automotive digital cockpit platform to mass-produced vehicles.

“We are very pleased to cooperate with WM Motor,” said Lei Xian, vice president of sales and market development at Qualcomm Technologies. “WM Motor has strong self-developed capabilities and an ecosystem in intelligent systems and data fusion. Combined with Qualcomm Technologies’ leading wireless connectivity and intelligent computing technologies, the two parties will jointly accelerate the realization of a wider range of advanced use cases for smart cars and jointly create a new era of intelligent driving connectivity.”

Xian Lei, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Qualcomm Technologies

The CPU and GPU of WM Motor's new WMConnect smart digital cockpit system provide computing power three times higher than the industry average, and proactively introduce the learning neural network processor NPU, which has AI deep learning capabilities. In addition, the maximum resolution supported by the new WMConnect smart digital cockpit is 4 times higher than the previous generation platform, and the number of video inputs is 5 more than the previous generation platform. The picture clarity and smooth interactive experience are comparable to first-tier high-end smartphones.

The new WMConnect smart digital cockpit has more than 70 wake-up words and can display 46 dynamic expressions in terms of natural voice interaction and voice control, which are of great concern to users. This emotional communication based on the scene allows every mood to resonate. In addition, the smart digital cockpit also has the ability to make eye contact. When the user looks at the central control in the car, the system will automatically wake up and listen to the command, turning thousands of words into nothing.

It is worth mentioning that the new WMConnect smart digital cockpit can also be connected with driving mode, smart scene and other vehicle control functions through air conditioning, sunroof and other functional configurations, bringing an immersive experience in all scenarios. In addition, the smart digital cockpit will also adopt a borderless digital design language, which can realize the free flow and activity of different types of content in multiple screens and multiple scenarios, allowing users to feel the vitality of information carriers in smart touch operations.

Autonomous Driving: World-class computing power and localized algorithms make autonomous driving more accessible to China

As one of the cores of intelligence, autonomous driving has become the commanding height of automobile technology. All countries have accelerated legislation and promoted road testing. However, different countries have different driving conditions. For high-level autonomous driving to be implemented in China, algorithms and databases that adapt to China's road conditions must be established. Relying on its own accumulation of China's first driving data of about 35,000 smart cars on major urban roads in China, WM Motor has joined hands with Baidu to make autonomous driving better understand China.

Wang Yunpeng, General Manager of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Technology Department, said: "Baidu and WM Motor have been old friends for many years. WM Motor is one of the first new energy vehicle brands to apply Apollo's cutting-edge technology. Baidu Apollo has been fully supporting WM Motor's core strategy of intelligentization and supporting the rapid development of WM Motor's intelligent technology. The strong combination of the two parties will effectively promote the arrival of a new future of 'new energy + intelligent vehicles' and create 'world champion'-level intelligent vehicle products."

Wang Yunpeng, General Manager of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Technology Department

At present, the new model that WM Motor will launch at the beginning of next year will be equipped with the AVP autonomous parking function developed in-depth with Baidu, which can achieve L4 level unmanned driving in specific scenarios. This new model will also be unveiled at the Baidu World Conference on September 15, which is worth looking forward to.

In the next step, WM Motor will adopt a "dimensionality reduction attack" strategy to gradually delegate L4-level autonomous driving technology to lower-level vehicles, promote the mass production of advanced autonomous driving front-end equipment, and gradually grow L2+ autonomous driving into L4 level, so that users in the mainstream market can enjoy forward-looking technology faster.

EIC: Developing a super-platform three-electric system that can be freely combined and self-evolved

The three-electric system is the core technology that constitutes the future smart terminals. WM Motor has always insisted on independently developing the three-electric platform. It has not only developed an intelligent super pure electric platform from 0 to 1, but is also the first car company among the new forces to have the ability to independently develop battery packs and a battery pack factory, leading the industry.

At present, WM Motor's three-electric system has established a complete test and certification system, covering nine verification areas, including three-electric, chassis, safety, NVH, electronic appliances, interior and exterior of the vehicle, autonomous driving, and intelligent systems. Benefiting from the highly flexible super-platform three-electric system, each of WM Motor's three-electric system components can be freely combined and self-evolved like building Lego, just like a flexible and changeable intelligent magic box.

Digital Architecture: Building the safest, most efficient and fastest new self-developed digital architecture

In the era of intelligence, cars have become an important carrier for the integration and innovation of many forward-looking technologies such as 5G, AI, high-reliability high-end chips, cloud computing, and big data. While continuously using cutting-edge technology to enhance the intelligence of the entire vehicle, WM Motor also collaborates with Tsinghua Unigroup and Xinxin to strengthen the in-depth application of on-board chips in the field of intelligent and connected vehicles, and jointly build a smart car industry ecosystem.

Zhang Yan, assistant to the president of Tsinghua Unigroup, said: "The two sides will take intelligent connected vehicles as a breakthrough point, cooperate in areas such as autonomous driving hardware, build a new form of the intelligent vehicle industry, and continue to create value for a better travel life for mankind.

Zhang Yan, Assistant to the President of Tsinghua Unigroup

Xia Yuan, executive vice president of Xinxin Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. and executive director and CEO of Xincheng Technology Holdings Co., Ltd., said: "We will help the leading new car-making companies represented by WM Motor to grow and develop, take smart electric vehicles as a breakthrough, jointly build a smart car industry ecosystem, and create a new benchmark for industrial and financial integration."

Xia Yuan, Executive Vice President of Xinxin Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., Executive Director and CEO of Xincheng Technology Holdings Co., Ltd.

In the process of promoting the implementation of on-board chips in intelligent vehicles, WM Motor has abandoned the previous modular control unit model, which can only carry out separate ECU processing chip sets and cannot integrate software and hardware for comprehensive upgrades. It has innovatively built the industry's first new self-developed digital architecture, which not only lays 5G communications and 100-megabit in-vehicle Ethernet, but also uses innovative central processing units to enable the autonomous driving processor to achieve efficient collaboration with the smart cockpit processor, providing the entire vehicle with more powerful computing power and redundant support.

WM Motor's digital architecture also features bank-level digital partition backup, which can provide bank-level encryption protection for power supply, communication, braking, steering, and vehicle communication. If we use the mobile phone system architecture as an analogy, WM Motor's new digital architecture is more efficient than iOS, and can quickly and securely switch between various background applications to achieve vertical control.

Let the future start from now. The mobile travel provided by WM Motor and its strongest smart ally is no longer just daily transportation, but a large travel ecosystem of the Internet of Everything built with the new WMConnect smart digital cockpit and high-level autonomous driving. The WM IdeaL4 new technology strategy conference aims to build future smart travel terminals with intelligence as the core, forward-looking technology as the driving force, and WM's strongest smart ally as the support, and ultimately form a smart technology ecosystem that integrates "people-vehicle-environment", providing consumers with a safer, more efficient, more convenient, and more technological new way of smart travel.

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.