A few days ago, it was learned from the official announcement of the GAC Group that the GAC Group’s board of directors formally agreed to the implementation of the wholly-owned subsidiary GAC Ion and Huawei (AH8 model) project, and plans to mass-produce it by the end of 2023.
According to the announcement, according to the strategic cooperation agreement signed between GAC Group and Huawei, the two parties will build a new generation of smart car digital platform based on GAC’s GEP3.0 chassis platform and Huawei’s CCA (computing and communication architecture), equipped with Huawei’s full-stack smart car solution. Jointly define and develop together to create a series of future-oriented smart cars. The project is the first medium and large-scale intelligent pure electric SUV jointly developed by the two parties. The total investment of the project is 788 million yuan. Mass production is planned for the end of 2023. The source of funding for the project will be coordinated by the company.
Public information shows that in 2017, Guangzhou Automobile Group and Huawei signed a strategic cooperation agreement to start a strategic cooperation in the field of intelligent networked electric vehicles; in 2020, the two parties signed a deepening strategic cooperation agreement again, and both parties focused on computing and communication architecture, catering to software definitions The trend of automobile development is to integrate the two parties’ cooperative research on intelligence, connectivity, and electrification to jointly create a sustainable iterative and upgrade digital platform, truly realize software-defined cars, and continue to improve users’ experience.
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