165438+1On October 26th, SAIC Pudong New Area and Alibaba Group held a low-key signing ceremony at the top floor of Lujiazui Shanghai Center Tourism Museum. The three parties announced that they will jointly build a brand-new high-end automobile brand "Smart Car", which means that the long-awaited "L Plan" officially landed.
That night, SAIC and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech successively announced that SAIC, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Hengxu Capital would jointly set up the Shanghai Yuan Jie Intelligent Technology Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) with a total investment of 72? Billion yuan, of which SAIC subscribed 5.399 billion yuan, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech subscribed 654.38+08 billion yuan, and Hengxu Capital subscribed 0.0 10 billion yuan. This special fund is precisely for the high-end intelligent pure electric vehicle project (namely "smart car") that cooperates with Alibaba (including its designated subordinate investors). In addition, a SAIC executive pointed out: "The first round of financing of this project reached 654.38+0 billion yuan, which is the largest among the new forces." ? In the future, it will attract more domestic and foreign capital to join.
Also at this signing ceremony, SAIC revealed that about three or four years ago, SAIC Chairman Chen Hong had approved the start of the overall technical framework planning of confidant automobile, and the preparatory work was started two years ago (20 18). At the same time as the vehicle project, there are also a series of core technology research and development and layout. Li Jun, deputy head of the preparatory group of Zhiji Automobile and general manager of SAIC Zero Beam Software Branch, said that a lot of work done since the establishment of Zero Beam is actually serving Zhiji Automobile. In a recent SAIC campus recruitment, Intimate Auto recruited young talents in major universities under the name of "SAIC New Intelligent Electric Vehicle Project". At present, the confidant car project has more than 200 members, half of whom are from SAIC. The other part comes from cross-border industries with automobiles. It is estimated that by the end of this year, the number of projects will reach 300, and it is expected to double by the end of next year.
According to reports, Zhizao Automobile will hold a global synchronous connection conference at CES in Shanghai, London and Las Vegas on 202 1 and 1 to release its brand-new high-end automobile brand and its two models, A car (sedan) and SUV. At the Shanghai International Auto Show in April, Zhiji Automobile will present three products and open the reservation of the first car.
"At present, the interior design of A car is a triple screen. When Ali joins the project, there will be more interesting and fun software. Through communication with users and software upgrades, we hope that this will eventually be a car that can always drive new cars. " According to insiders of SAIC, the first car of bosom friend has been supported by Silicon Valley technology companies in the United States, including SAIC. "It is expected that the winter test will be conducted in Heihe at the end of this year, and a large number of new cars will be seen on the road next year."
Everyone is quite familiar with SAIC, which has been trying to build high-end brands, and Alibaba, which has built cars by itself. On the contrary, Pudong New Area, the other side of this cooperation, may feel a little mysterious.
This year coincides with the 30th anniversary of Pudong's development and opening-up, and it has been 28 years since the opening of Zhangjiang High-tech Park in Pudong (1July 28th, 992). From 65438 to 0999, Shanghai launched the strategy of "focusing on Zhangjiang", and Zhangjiang High-tech Park entered a stage of rapid development. 20 14 12, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was expanded, and Zhangjiang High-tech Zone was included. 2065438+July 2007, the Shanghai Municipal Government officially approved the construction plan of Zhangjiang Science City in principle, with a total area of about 95 square kilometers.
Starting from a "high-tech park", Zhangjiang Science City has undergone a transformation and upgrading from gestation to rapid development. Now it has truly transformed from a "park" to an "urban area" and developed into a world-class science city with obvious scientific characteristics, concentrated scientific and technological elements, environment, humanities and ecology, and full of innovative vitality.
Compared with Anting (Shanghai International Automobile City) in Jiading District, there are a large number of complete vehicle and related parts enterprises and their production bases, the first international demonstration EVZONE for electric vehicles in China, and the first batch of self-driving test roads in China. Pudong New Area, which is mainly engaged in finance, technology and services, is not so famous in the automobile field.
However, taking Tesla's new energy automobile factory and mass production as an opportunity, Pudong New Area began to actively lay out the supporting industries of core components such as "Sandian", and proposed to promote the demonstration application and industrialization process of intelligent networked vehicles, further improve the technical level of existing traditional automobiles, and improve the zero ratio, thus forming an intelligent networked and new energy automobile industrial system with deep cross-border integration. According to the plan, by 2025, the total output value of the automobile industry in Pudong New Area will reach 450 billion yuan, the industrial scale will double, and the sales volume of new energy vehicles will account for 30%.
At the signing ceremony, Pudong New Area said that it would make use of Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park's world-class high-tech industrial cluster ecology and core technology resources such as AI and chips. Alibaba, the global Internet giant, will fully empower smart cars with the help of users' big data, the latest technology of Dharma Institute and the synergistic advantages of Alibaba Cloud and other ecological circles.
According to reports, the data driving center, intelligent driving center, user operation center and brand operation center of Zhijia Automobile will all be located in the core area of Zhangjiang Intelligent Park. The office is located in Block C of Zhangjiang Intelligent Park, adjacent to the famous Ali Pingtou Ge Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and a number of domestic cutting-edge technology companies. The company is facing the future landmark of Zhangjiang-the "Technology Gate" of Zhangjiang Twin Towers with a total height of 320 meters. Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park said that it will also provide support for the talent introduction of smart cars, including a series of welfare policies such as settlement, and provide more comprehensive support such as policy docking, resource docking, public services and comprehensive support, thus helping it seize the first highland in the global smart car field.
At the same time, SAIC also promised to increase investment in existing projects in Pudong, including SAIC-GM, Pan-Asia Technology Center, SAIC Passenger Car Port Base, SAIC International and other enterprises.
According to relevant sources, as the forefront of reform and opening up and the first experimental zone for artificial intelligence innovation and application in China, Pudong is committed to building a strategic highland for artificial intelligence innovation strategy, application demonstration, system supply and talent gathering, empowering industries such as industry, transportation, finance and medical care through artificial intelligence technology, accelerating the research and development of hardware and related software applications such as chips, building a sound industrial chain and promoting the commercial application of artificial intelligence. This time, Pudong and SAIC will invest in "Zhiji Automobile", which will not only realize the comprehensive reconstruction of the traditional automobile industry chain, but also build a more attractive intelligent network connection and new energy vehicle innovation ecosystem. At the same time, it will also promote the future development of the automobile industry in Pudong New Area and help Pudong to double its industrial level and scientific and technological functions. Pudong hopes to help launch the "Made in Shanghai" brand through the "Smart Cars" project, and contribute to the high-quality development of China's automobile industry with leading technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Judging from the preliminary planning, the operation mode of confidant automobile has completely deviated from the traditional state-owned enterprise mode and will adopt the market-oriented capital operation mode. According to reports, SAIC's Zebra, Lianchuang and other enterprises have begun to try flexible incentive mechanisms such as multi-party capital shareholding and employee shareholding, and the pace of Zhi Zhi may be even greater. As the first vehicle startup hatched by SAIC, whether it can fundamentally embark on a subversive innovation road is more worthy of our expectation.
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