Fuel vehicles can also achieve vehicle OTA General Motors launches a new generation of electronic architecture

On September 27, GM Group officially launched a new generation of electronic architecture at the headquarters of GM China in Shanghai, and said that it will be first installed on the new strategic model - Cadillac CT5. At the press conference, Dan Nicholson, vice president of GM's global electrification products, systems and software and hardware, said: "Software systems have become the latest battlefield in the automotive industry. It is the key for automotive companies to maintain their competitiveness. This new electronic architecture fully integrates our ingenuity and exploration in vehicle software and hardware development."

Faced with the rapid development of the new energy industry and the rapid popularization of the concept of the "new four modernizations" of automobiles, today's automobile industry is in an unprecedented period of change. In order to cope with such an era of change, GM has earlier conveyed its brand vision of "zero accidents, zero emissions, and zero congestion". At the same time, it is also increasing its investment in research and development in the fields of electrification, intelligent interconnection, autonomous driving, and sharing.

(Dan Nicholson at the press conference)

The launch of the new generation of electronic architecture is the first step for GM to realize its new brand vision. GM's new generation of electronic architecture enables the OTA upgrade of the entire vehicle on fuel vehicles, including the engine and transmission control modules, vehicle communication systems, entertainment systems and even body control systems, which can be fully re-tuned or upgraded through later OTA.

To put it bluntly, at this stage, modified car owners can only upgrade the power system by "flashing the program". In the future, based on the new generation of GM electronic architecture, it will be possible to "flash the program online" and upgrade the power tuning of the whole vehicle through OTA. In the future, it will even be possible to match different power system tuning solutions according to the driving habits of different car owners, thereby further improving the driving quality of individual vehicles.

The basis for all this is the high data processing capability of GM's new generation of electronic architecture. According to official statements, the new generation of electronic architecture can achieve a data processing speed of 4.5T per hour, which is 5 times higher than the current level. This means that it is possible to respond to real-time conditions more efficiently and give correct feedback in a timely manner. Of course, high-speed data transmission and high authority of the vehicle system mean that there will be higher potential dangers on the other hand. In response to this, GM Group adopted a data security solution that matches the aviation system at the beginning of research and development, and provided comprehensive data security protection with "safety first" as the principle.

(Dan Nicholson at the press conference)

"GM is one of the first automakers to create a global product network information security organization. Our team of network experts focuses on preventing unauthorized access to vehicles and protecting consumer data," said Dan Nicholson at the scene. "What we need to do is not only to achieve OTA online upgrades, but also to ensure that OTA online upgrades are achieved in a very secure environment. Our benchmark is the aviation system, so including information authentication, hypervisor-based in-vehicle entertainment systems and OBDII interfaces, we adhere to the principle of safety first."

In a sense, the new generation of electronic architecture may just be a new technology platform developed by GM to cope with the new energy trend. But from a longer-term perspective, the new electronic architecture will "help" GM to make early arrangements in the future in terms of electrification, active safety, intelligent connectivity, and autonomous driving.

In the future, GM will also deploy this electronic architecture across brands and platforms. It is expected that by 2025, more than half of GM's global brand models launched in China will be equipped with this new electronic architecture.

GM's new generation of electronic architecture is also a test for the group's comprehensive transformation to the new energy market in the future. After all, unlike fuel vehicles, new energy vehicles require more analog data to achieve further intelligent performance. Dan Nicholson said at the scene: "In the future, thanks to the higher bandwidth provided by the new electronic architecture, it will be easier for us to install Super Cruise and other advanced active safety systems on electric vehicles with long driving range." From this we can see that the real "object" to be served by the new generation of electronic architecture is the new energy product series that GM will launch in the future. At the same time, this also means that GM is accelerating the layout speed in the new energy field.

Therefore, the biggest task for fuel-powered vehicles that are first equipped with this electronic architecture may be to collect more product-side data, so as to further enhance the product strength of future new energy vehicles themselves.