Ma Xiao Zhixing self-driving truck will start mass production this year.

Ma Xiao Zhixing self-driving truck will start mass production this year.

Ma Xiao Zhixing's self-driving trucks will start mass production this year, and Ma Xiao Zhixing and Sany Heavy Truck, a subsidiary of Sany Group, will set up a joint venture company to develop, produce and sell L4 self-driving heavy truck products and build a high-end self-driving heavy truck brand. Ma Xiao Zhixing self-driving truck will start mass production this year.

Ma Xiao Zhixing's self-driving trucks will start mass production in 1 year. On July 28th, Sima Xiao Zhixing, the head autopilot, and Sany Heavy Truck, a leading domestic heavy industry enterprise Sany Group, announced the establishment of a joint venture company to develop, produce and sell L4 self-driving heavy truck products and jointly build a high-end self-driving heavy truck brand.

Both parties will deeply integrate Ma Xiao Zhixing's "virtual driver" technical ability with Sany Heavy Truck's technical accumulation in the field of online chassis control and vehicle development, and * * * define and develop redundant L4 high-end intelligent heavy truck products for future smart logistics, so as to enable future trunk logistics and transportation.

The joint venture company plans to start small-scale mass production delivery in 2022 and large-scale mass production in 2024. It is estimated that the annual output will exceed 1 10,000 vehicles in a few years. At present, the first self-driving prototype based on Sany new energy truck platform has started road test verification. The domain controller designed by Ma Xiao Zhixing based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SOC will also fully empower the smart trucks produced by the joint venture company.

"Sany has the industry-leading heavy truck manufacturing technology, and is exploring the layout of key areas such as new energy heavy trucks and intelligent network connection, while Ma Xiao Zhixing has the core key technology in the field of automatic driving, which has opened the practice in the field of smart logistics. Cooperation between the two parties will be the key to building a closed loop of smart logistics ecology. " Peng Jun, co-founder and CEO of Ma Xiao Zhixing, said.

Liang, chairman of Sany Heavy Truck, said, "The cooperation between the two parties is a strong alliance with complementary advantages, which will bring revolutionary changes to the logistics industry, greatly improve logistics efficiency and vehicle safety, and reduce logistics costs and drivers' labor intensity. Sany Heavy Truck and Ma Xiao Zhixing * * * will jointly create several heavyweight landmark application scenarios, which will be put into practical operation quickly, instead of staying in the prototype stage. "

In the process of building an ecological closed loop of smart logistics, Ma Xiao Zhixing has made many important progress recently. Ma Xiao Zhixing had previously established a joint venture with Sinotrans Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Merchants Group, to build a high-quality intelligent logistics capacity platform with autonomous driving technology as the core, and started its business operation on April 1 this year, realizing the digitalization and intelligence of the transportation process.

By opening new forms of cooperation with partners, Ma Xiao Zhixing has gradually built a "Golden Triangle" of smart logistics, including autonomous driving companies, logistics companies and heavy truck manufacturers. Ma Xiao Zhixing has the core autonomous driving technology, which is the key to empowering logistics and future heavy truck manufacturing; Logistics companies have accumulated rich transportation experience and customer base; Heavy truck manufacturers have the technical precipitation of vehicle development and manufacturing.

Only by complementing each other's advantages can the "Golden Triangle" operate efficiently, form a safe and efficient future smart logistics ecology, and maximize the social value and economic benefits of autonomous driving technology.

Ma Xiao Zhixing's self-driving trucks will start mass production this year. On July 28th, the reporter learned exclusively that Ma Xiao Star and Sany Heavy Truck, a subsidiary of Sany Group, will set up a joint venture company to develop, produce and sell L4 self-driving heavy truck products and build a high-end self-driving heavy truck brand.

Specifically, the two parties will integrate the "virtual driver" technical capability of Ma Xiao Zhixing, as well as the on-line chassis control and vehicle development technology of Sany Heavy Truck. The joint venture company plans to start small-scale mass production delivery this year and mass production in 2024.

The reporter was further informed that up to now, the first self-driving prototype built based on Sany New Energy Truck Platform has started road test verification; The domain controller based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-chip designed by Ma Xiao Zhixing will also be applied to the smart trucks produced by the joint venture company.

Previously, at the end of 2020, Ma Xiao Zhixing established the truck division on the basis of the original truck R&D team; At the end of 20021,Ma Xiao Star and Sinotrans Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Merchants Group, established a joint venture company, Youth Logistics. On April 1 day of this year, the joint venture company has started to operate, with more than 100 trucks running nationwide.

Li, the head of Ma Xiao Zhixing Truck Division, told the reporter: "Autopilot technology and vehicle manufacturing technology need to be closely coordinated, and the intelligent logistics platform and logistics business operation are inseparable, and the joint venture company is the best way to achieve the same goal for both parties."

At present, urban roads and expressways, as the two most common open road scenes, have become the main direction aimed by most autonomous driving enterprises and technology giants. Among them, the typical product of urban road scene is self-driving taxi, and the typical product of expressway scene is self-driving RoboTruck.

Judging from the competition pattern, at present, besides Ma Xiao Zhixing, Tucson Future, Micro-car Technology, Zhijia Technology, Main Line Technology, Hongjing Zhijia and other enterprises have all laid out in the trunk logistics track.

Li, the head of Ma Xiao Zhixing Truck Division, told the reporter, "In China's logistics and transportation structure, road transportation has an absolute advantage, and trunk transportation is the main link of road transportation, so its market scale and business prospects are very great."

Li further explained: "From the technical difficulty point of view, the trunk line scene is more standardized than the urban distribution network scene, and it is easier to land on a large scale. Although trunk scenes are more difficult to realize than closed scenes, the market scale of closed scenes is much smaller. Therefore, in logistics and transportation, autonomous driving has the highest ROI from trunk logistics. "

According to the research of Guolian Securities, high-speed trunk logistics is expected to take the lead in realizing automatic driving and become one of the priority scenarios for technology landing. In the field of commercial vehicles, commercial vehicles have been upgraded to become logistics service providers. From the perspective of economic benefits and safety, the value of intelligent driving to commercial vehicles is more prominent, and once the function and business model are mature, its popularity will be faster.

However, in the scene of trunk logistics transportation, there is still a great test for enterprises to truly realize commercialization.

"Compared with passenger cars, the scene of self-driving trucks is relatively controllable, the route is mainly high-speed, the road environment is relatively closed, fixed and simple, and it is easier for technology to land than urban open roads." Some insiders told reporters, "but this will have higher requirements for the whole vehicle in terms of long-distance perception and control. At the same time, there are problems to be solved in terms of cost, supervision and supply chain. "

At present, with the continuous layout of more enterprises in trunk logistics scenes, its commercialization process is expected to be further accelerated.

Ma Xiao Star's self-driving trucks will start mass production this year. On July 28th, Ma Xiao Zhixing, an autonomous driving company, announced the establishment of a joint venture with Sany Heavy Truck to * * * build high-end self-driving heavy truck products and * * * develop, produce and sell L4-class self-driving heavy truck products.

Sany Heavy Truck is responsible for the development of the drive-by-wire chassis and the whole vehicle, and Xiaoma Zhixing's Xiaoma Zhixing truck is responsible for the automatic driving technology. Product positioning is a L4-class high-end intelligent heavy truck product with redundant vehicle regulations.

At the same time, Ma Xiao Zhixing also announced the establishment of a logistics technology company with Sinotrans-Qingsui Logistics Technology to undertake the operation of smart heavy trucks.

According to Ma Xiao Zhixing, the project is expected to realize small-scale mass production of self-driving trucks in 2022 and large-scale mass production in 2024. In a few years, the annual output is expected to exceed 1 10,000 vehicles.

Since Waymo, an American head autopilot company, cut into the heavy truck business and Tucson successfully listed in the United States in the future, the self-driving truck track has ushered in the second spring. In addition to the wisdom, victory and mainline of the original players, 202 1 added LongDrive founded by Roadstar's Tongxianqiao, another truck brand Hydron jointly invested by Baidu and Lion Bridge in Tucson in the future, and the unmanned truck "Big" developed by Ali Dharma Institute.

There are as many as three heavy truck companies founded by Ma Xiaozhika's runaway, namely, Dingfei and Sun Haowen's Qiangua Technology, Pan Zhenhao and Sun's Qingtian Zhika and Zhao Ruixuan's Technology.

The domestic policy on heavy trucks is gradually being liberalized. In June this year, the first batch of "unmanned" truck road test licenses were issued in Deqing, Zhejiang Province. Licensed enterprises can conduct road tests in designated areas in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, including some high-speed sections.