Hesai Technology announced on the 22nd that it had officially reached designated cooperation with FAW Group. The two parties will jointly create the world’s first in-cabin lidar smart driving solution.

The results of the cooperation between the two parties will be applied to the Hongqi brand’s next-generation flagship pure electric model, which is expected to be mass-produced and delivered in the first half of 2025. The new car will be the first to use Hesai’s ultra-thin long-range lidar ET25.

According to reports, ET25 is Hesai’s first ultra-thin long-range lidar for the ADAS front-mounted mass production market. The body is only 25mm high and can be placed behind the windshield. Officials say that this installation method is wind resistance friendly, not afraid of dirt, and the overall body design is smoother and more beautiful.

In addition, this lidar is also equipped with Hesai’s new generation laser transceiver module. Under the condition of 10% reflectivity, ET25 improves the ranging capability of 905nm lidar to more than 250m. Its overall performance is stronger, and it can also help smart cars promptly judge risks and make safer decisions when encountering complex road conditions.

FAW Car officially announced a number of Hongqi new energy products this year, including but not limited to the following models:

• Hongqi E001: It will be launched in November this year.

• Hongqi E202: Still in the concept car stage.

• Hongqi E007, E009: The first platform prototypes rolled off the assembly line, but there are no more details.

• Hongqi E702: It will be launched in the first half of next year.

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Source: FAW BYD public account

The FAW BYD power battery project has a total investment of 13.5 billion yuan, covers an area of 800,000 square meters, and has a total production capacity of 45GWh. After it is completed and put into production, it can meet the configuration needs of 600,000 electric vehicles every year.

It is obtained from Jilin Daily that the main body of the FAW BYD New Energy Power Battery Project has been capped and is in the stage of decoration and road construction in the factory area. Among them, 60% of the decoration has been completed, and 70% of the roads in the factory area have been completed. The dormitory building originally planned to be delivered on August 30 is speeding up the construction progress and is expected to be completed 30 days ahead of schedule. The other monoliths were delivered on August 30.

It is understood that the second phase of the first phase of the FAW BYD new energy power battery project undertaken by the China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau involves nearly 30 individual buildings with various functions, including factories, office buildings, employee activity centers and dormitory buildings, with a total construction area of about 155,200 square meters. The project will start in September 2022 with a total construction period of 344 days. After completion, blade power batteries will be produced.

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▲ Photo source: FAW Group official

The V12TD engine is based on the new upgrade of the only domestic Hongqi V12 platform, with a maximum power of 560kW and a maximum torque of 1100Nm, and will be equipped with a hybrid system to match the vehicle application in the future, tailor-made for Hongqi’s top cars.

According to the introduction, the V12TD project team is oriented to the power demand of the top cars of Hongqi and concentrates on the key core technologies such as the design of ultra-high-power combustion system, two-row consistency control of V-engine, development of dual ECU autonomous electronic control system and trial production of high-precision 3C parts, successfully completing the technical breakthrough of key systems such as combustion and gas exchange and achieving international leading performance indexes. At the same time, the company has broken the technical barriers of foreign manufacturing, overcome the manufacturing problems in the industry, and realized the self-production of all high-precision 3C parts.

The flagship of Hongqi’s pure electricity E-HS9

FAW said that with the leapfrog development of the Red Flag brand, the V12TD engine will continue to play an important role in the future, and also hopes that the engine team will contribute more to the hybrid technology route such as PHEV and the group’s new energy strategy.

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According to the introduction, the new Hongqi H5 fuel cell vehicle is equipped with the second-generation fuel cell engine independently developed by the Powertrain Department. The engine adopts advanced modular and lightweight design concepts, with a volume specific power density of 694 W/L, 40% higher than the previous generation, and a rated power of 65 kW, achieving a fast cold start at -30 ℃ and reaching a leading level in China.

In addition, the first vehicle program achieved data freeze 15 days earlier, A prototype data freeze 30 days earlier, 7 days earlier than the original plan to complete the vehicle trial production.

Before the online market news, red flag H5 will be launched pure electric version, codenamed E001, as the brand electric drive focus models to market. This new car life cycle of 7 years, is expected to September next year mass production, annual production capacity of 80,000 units, is expected to be in the 200,000 yuan, the main focus of “professional, safe, premium”.

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