In the first two quarters, FAW Hongqi's sales increased by 111%, and Renault electric vehicles increased by 38%.-EEWORLD

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1. Dynamics of Intelligence and Autonomous Driving

1.1 Ford and Mobileye join hands to implement large-scale applications in 2021

On July 21, Intel announced that its driverless vehicle research and development division Mobileye had reached an agreement with Ford Motor. This is Ford's first attempt to use Mobileye technology on a large scale in next-generation cars and trucks, including the Ford Bronco, the all-electric Mustang Mach-E and the next-generation F-150 pickup truck. (Source: Future Automotive Daily)

1.2. Investor asked: Does HUAYU Automotive currently have any plans in the field of autonomous driving?

HUAYU AUTOMOBILE's reply: The company's electronics branch's 24GHz rear-facing millimeter-wave radar has achieved stable supply to customers such as SAIC Passenger Vehicles and SAIC Maxus. The 77GHz forward-facing millimeter-wave radar with automatic emergency braking function used in buses has successfully passed national regulatory tests, becoming the first domestically produced radar product to pass such tests, and has achieved mass production and supply to King Long Bus. The 77GHz forward millimeter-wave radar and corner radar have been successfully used in the demonstration operation of SAIC Hongyan intelligent heavy-duty trucks in the Yangshan Port 5G autonomous driving project.

1.3. The world's first autonomous driving freight network is officially launched

TuSimple is working with UPS, Penske and US Xpress to implement the autonomous freight network project in three phases.

In the first phase, TuSimple's autonomous freight network will begin service between Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. It will start this year and last until 2021. The second phase will be from 2022 to 2023, when TuSimple plans to expand its autonomous service to the coast through the Los Angeles to Jacksonville route. In the third phase, by 2024, it plans to provide autonomous freight services across the United States. (cnBeta)

1.4. The latest achievements of the MEC-View project for vehicle-road collaborative autonomous driving are released

After more than three years of development, the MEC-View project, a vehicle-road cooperative autonomous driving project, has achieved initial results. The project is led by Bosch Group and participated by Mercedes-Benz, Nokia, Osram, TomTom, IT Designers, and the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Ulm.

The MEC-View project installs cameras and LiDAR sensors on streetlights and uses advanced mobile communication technology to provide critical information to vehicles in real time, allowing them to quickly and reliably identify obstacles, whether they are surrounding vehicles, cyclists or pedestrians.

The project team has developed a MEC server based on a mobile communication network, which can combine the data collected by the built-in sensors of street lamps and the body sensors with high-precision digital maps to generate a vehicle surrounding environment model that contains all information about the current road conditions, and then transmit it to the vehicle via a wireless network.

1.5, Shenlan autonomous driving bus conducts open road testing in Shanghai

The "Panda Smart Bus" developed by Shenlan Technology is undergoing open road autonomous driving mileage testing in Shanghai. The bus is 12 meters long and has 23 seats, including a standing area that can accommodate up to 79 people. It is a pure electric new energy vehicle with a constant speed range of more than 500 kilometers and a comprehensive range of more than 300 kilometers.

The Panda Smart Bus can be paid by "swiping your hand". This payment method uses hand vein recognition biotechnology. It uses infrared light to capture and collect internal living features 3 mm below the skin, match and identify the biometric value of the unique DNA in the palm, thereby completing identity authentication and automatically binding with the payment software. (Source: Fast Technology)

1.6. Uber is seeking $500 million in external investment to develop autonomous freight

Uber is in talks with investors interested in acquiring a stake in Uber Freight's logistics division. It is reported that Uber Freight plans to raise about $500 million at a valuation of $4 billion, but the negotiations have not yet concluded and the deal has not been finalized. The terms and amounts involved may change. (Source: IT Business News Network)

2. Connectivity and Automotive Electronics Trends

2.1. dSPACE acquires Intempora to enhance sensor data processing capabilities

Automotive solutions provider dSPACE has acquired real-time development software company Intempora, strengthening the dSPACE portfolio for autonomous driving. dSPACE will integrate Intempora's real-time multi-sensor application software RTMaps into several dSPACE solutions. Intempora's software completes the functional scope of dSPACE's product portfolio for data-driven development, closing the gap between data logging, data management and software validation.

RTMaps software significantly simplifies the work engineers do to acquire, timestamp, synchronize and replay various sensor data. Intempora's solution also includes data tagging software RTag and Intempora Verification Suite (IVS). IVS is a cloud-based data management platform for recording PB-level data and finding relevant test scenarios. (Source: Gasgoo)

2.2. Airbiquity and 95 Intelligent Driving jointly launched automotive-grade OTA over-the-air upgrade solutions in China

Recently, Airbiquity announced a partnership with 95 Zhijia. Through this cooperation, 95 Zhijia will add Airbiquity's OTAmatic software over-the-air upgrade and data management solutions to 95 Zhijia's connected car service platform, and represent Airbiquity in the Chinese automotive market to launch and operate OTAmatic solutions.

2.3. Demand for cameras for L4 or L5 autonomous driving vehicles

Liu Qi, General Manager of Automotive Electronics Business Unit of OmniVision Technologies China, said: In communication with a large number of domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, it is found that when the car reaches L4 or L5 autonomous driving, the vehicle's demand for cameras is mainly reflected in:

Forward vision requires 1-3 eyes, mainly 1 eye;
Lateral perception requires 2-4 eyes; backward perception requires 1 eye;
Surround view and APA (parking assist system) require 4 eyes;
1-2 eyes are required for in-cabin pilot monitoring;
In the future, a camera may be needed to understand the status of passengers;
In addition, according to national regulations, starting from 2021, cars must be installed with driving recorders or event recorders, which requires 1 unit.

By this calculation, it is estimated that each car will need to be equipped with 11-15 cameras in the future. The annual global automobile production is between 80 million and 100 million, so the global automotive camera market size is about 1.5 to 1.8 billion. The average selling price of automotive image sensors is 4-5 US dollars, so the global automotive image sensor market size will be close to 10 billion US dollars. (Source: Electronic Enthusiasts)

2.4 SemiDrive uses Elektrobit's EBtresos Studio tool for AUTOSAR software development

Elektrobit announced that SemiDrive has selected the EB tresos Studio tool for its AUTOSAR-compliant microcontroller abstraction layer (MCAL) development platform. SemiDrive chips equipped with EB tresos Studio can provide a complete hardware platform foundation to meet the requirements of various automotive applications on all ECUs. These applications include ADAS, infotainment systems, V2X, and autonomous driving domain control. EB tresos Studio can be seamlessly integrated into the existing tool chain to integrate basic software modules of specific companies with existing mature software components, thereby shortening time to market and reducing integration costs. (Source: Elektrobit)

2.5 Faurecia's automotive software solutions will be used in Volkswagen's main models in Latin America

Starting from July 2020, the automotive software solutions of the Faurecia Aptoide joint venture will be equipped with Volkswagen's key models in the Latin American market, including Nivus, Polo SUV and T-cross. Nivus, Volkswagen's new coupe SUV model, which was first launched in Brazil in June this year, is equipped with the "VW Play" application ecosystem for the first time. The "VW Play" application software solution (App Store) is provided by the Faurecia Aptoide joint venture.

Aptoide car applications cover a wide range of use cases, including navigation, music, streaming video, interest preference recommendation services, audiobooks, games, weather forecasts, refueling and parking location services. In November 2019, Faurecia and Aptoide, one of the world's largest independent Android app stores, formed a joint venture (each holding a 50% stake), headquartered in Portugal. (Source: Faurecia)

2.6 Neusoft's dual-screen cockpit system helps FAW Hongqi's sales increase by 111% in the first half of the year

Since 2016, Neusoft has continuously invested more than 300 people to form a team to provide intelligent and networked overall solutions. Hongqi HS5 is equipped with a dual-screen cockpit system jointly developed by Neusoft and FAW Hongqi. The cockpit system uses a suspended dual-link full HD 12.3-inch large screen, a high-performance processor with a computing power of 50K DMIPS, and Hypervisor virtualization technology to achieve the running of two independent operating systems on one CPU. FAW Hongqi's cumulative sales in the first half of 2020 exceeded 70,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 111%. Among them, the best-selling Hongqi HS5 has exceeded 9,000 units in monthly sales for the past two consecutive months.

(Source: Neusoft Automotive Electronics)

3. Electrification and shared mobility trends

3.1. 15 US states will jointly promote electric heavy trucks

On July 14, 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia announced a joint memorandum of understanding to promote the development of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles, hoping to eliminate diesel trucks by 2050. The states pledged to develop plans within six months to identify problems and propose solutions to support the popularization of electrification, including potential financial incentives and ways to promote the construction of electric vehicle infrastructure. (Source: Tencent Auto)

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