Baidu making a car, suddenly changing

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Why does cooperation with Huawei lose soul?

After Huawei's autonomous driving technology was very popular, and after bringing a number of listed companies, SAIC Group suddenly spilled cold water claiming that he would not cooperate with Huawei, because it lost his soul and caused heated discussions for a while.

Just as everyone was puzzled, Baidu and Geely also made a "break up" a few days ago.

Tianyancha shows that Baidu and Geely jointly created a number of changes in the collection car last year. At this point, the news of Baidu and Geely's scattered gangs have passed.

In fact, whether it is a commercial giant or some old -fashioned car manufacturers, they are crazy about driving. However, it is not easy to make a car. There are not a few car companies in the dead and after the death of the dead.

In this state, can the first concept car that co -organizes Geely and suddenly changes the mass production?

How to let scientific research results get out of the laboratory?

Cainting a car for a long time has been a long time.

Baidu's autonomous driving projects can be traced back to 2013. At that time, Baidu's autonomous driving research and development test began in Beijing. It was the earliest company in China to deploy autonomous driving.

In 2017, at the Baidu AI Developer Conference of that year, Li Yanhong also personally ran a circle of autonomous cars on the Fifth Ring Road, and lived the driving process live in the conference.

Since 2019, Baidu has also begun to open and share unmanned vehicle travel services in Changsha, Cangzhou, Beijing and other cities Apollo Go (autonomous driving plan).

By the end of 2020, Apollo Go has served more than 210,000 passengers, and the mileage of autonomous driving has exceeded 10 million kilometers.

Baidu can achieve achievements in autonomous driving, and it is inseparable from Baidu's many years of technical accumulation.

Data show that as of June 2020, a total of 8,275 companies in my country have participated in autonomous driving patent applications, with a total of 40,682 patents, including 14,018 patents.

Among these enterprises, the largest number of patents is Baidu. During the period, Baidu used the number of patents to apply for the number of patents in 2009, and won Huawei, Tencent, Geely, and Xiaopeng.

However, if you talk about autonomous driving technology, most people in China think that it is not Baidu for the first time, but Huawei, who recently shows muscles, or Xiaopeng cars that often board the new forces.

In other words, although Baidu is very strong in the number of patents, it seems that it is difficult to show its "strongest" face in terms of commercialization.

However, how to make scientific research results out of the laboratory to truly implement the ground, it has always been a problem in various fields, and it is by no means a dilemma of the Baidu family. Regarding the last mile of how to take the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, Baidu finally chose to make a car directly.

"Break up" with Geely?

Make a car is the hottest theme in 2021.

Since 2021, Midea, 360, Xiaomi, OPPO and other companies have reported news about car building. In order to build a car, major enterprises also show their magical powers, some directly participated in the shares, and some directly smashed the money to build the car themselves.

During this period, Baidu chose to join forces with Geely.

It is reported that Baidu and Geely established a joint venture company collection car in March 2021. Baidu and Geely have 55%and 45%of the shares of collecting cars.

By January 26, 2022, the collection announced the completion of nearly $ 400 million in Series A financing, which was mainly increased by Baidu and Geely.

The news came out. The first car robot concept car will be released at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2022, and the production model will be listed in 2023.

By June 8, 2022, the market finally waited for the official release of the first brand conference of the first car robot concept car, the first brand conference of the car.

According to Jacao Motors, it will officially launch the limited edition of its first mass production model this fall. The production model has a similar degree of similarity to the Robo-01 concept car.

But what I never expected was that just 20 days after the conference, Baidu and Geely came out to "break up".

Tianyancha shows that on June 28, 2022, Shanghai Huapu Automobile Co., Ltd., which was held by Geely Holdings, fully withdrew from the list of shareholders collecting cars, and replaced it. company.

Although Baidu then made an emergency clarification on this matter, claiming that "the change of industrial and commercial changes" was a normal adjustment based on the needs of business development. The set was still co -owned by Baidu and Geely. Thoroughly dispel the suspicion of the market's subtle relationship between Baidu and Geely.

It is worth noting that a total of five board seats were set up in the previous set. Except for the CEO of Xia Yiping, the remaining four positions were from Baidu, and only one director came from Geely.

In nominal, Jiji Motors was jointly sponsored by Baidu and Geely, but the actual right to speak was obviously concentrated in the hands of Baidu. As a brand created by Baidu and Geely, Geely's sense of existence was obviously low.

When cooperating with Baidu, Geely is also vigorously developing its new new energy brand "Ji Yan".

According to the official plan, the size of the national pole store will exceed 300 at the end of this year. For Geely, the focus of the new energy vehicle market is more focused on its own brand.

From this point of view, Geely seems to be another car company that does not want to give "soul" to others.

Is the production time too hasty?

Regarding the car building, it may be that Baidu needs Geely's support.

Which industry chain is the most complicated and the largest in the industry chain? The automotive industry can definitely be ranked in the front row. And Internet cars generally go through the process from 0 to 1, and even if there is money, it may not be successful.

Looking back at the development history of domestic new energy vehicles, dozens of or even hundreds of new vehicle companies have entered the bureau to build cars. But since 2019, I don't know how many new vehicles have disappeared. It is nothing more than two cases, either closed down before the car was created;

The reality is currently only a few new forces such as Weilai, ideal, Xiaopeng, Nezha, zero running, and Weima that can be seen in the entire market.

Therefore, on the road of car building, Baidu does need a good partner.

It is understood that Jiji Motors was created based on the vast architecture of Geely SEA, and the architecture was developed by Geely Automobile for 4 years and spent 18 billion in research and development.

As a pure electric exclusive architecture developed by Geely Automobile, the vast structure not only has a three -dimensional layout in hardware, ecology, and systems, but also can also achieve comprehensive coverage of various models such as A -Class to E -Class.

Yang Xueliang, vice president of Geely Holdings, also bluntly said: "It can be understood that we are for Baidu for some extent."

In other words, the status of Jiji Motors in Baidu's heart will be higher, and the collection may be the core ring that has accumulated Baidu for many years.

However, even if you have been in Baidu for many years, the chance of winning the car is still small.

After the first brand launch conference, in addition to the high -coexistence executives accusing the collection of plagiarism, Bython, and Gaohe, the collection should be called "jealousy". The current place where laser radar is placed, I am afraid that the latest pedestrian collision regulations cannot pass.

In the final analysis, there are many details of the car building, and as a newborn army, how Baidu will go out of the first step, so that consumers can really feel the advantages of the product. It is a question that Baidu must think about next. Essence

On the road to build, Baidu's progress is already very fast. At present, the collection has stated that it will officially launch the limited edition of its first production model this fall.

However, this mass production time has only been less than two years before the establishment of the Jiji Motor. You must know that the process of Xiaopeng Automobile and Weilai Automobile can spend nearly 4 years from 0 to 1, which shows that the time of collecting cars is rushing. So, can Baidu build a car?

A fact that I had to admit that, compared to Weilai, Xiaopeng, and ideal, which was earlier than the earliest start time, the market is currently low in the market. More consumers' first feedback.

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