2021 Shanghai Auto Show: Witness Three New Eras Of Chinese Automobile

The first year of high-level automatic driving?

On the eve of 2021 Shanghai auto show, a number of car companies have launched models that claim to have high-level automatic driving function.

On April 16, Weima W6 went on the market, which Weima said was "China's first mass production vehicle with driverless capability".

On April 17, the alpha s of arcfox, a high-end brand of BAIC new energy, was launched on the market. Among them, the hi version of alpha s Huawei will carry Huawei's automatic driving technology and Hongmeng OS, and use three laser radars. The official said that the car can realize automatic driving without intervention on 1000 km urban roads.

Behind Weima and Jihu are two Chinese technology giants Baidu and Huawei.

They have entered the automotive field in depth. Huawei is determined to "not build cars and help auto companies build good cars". While expanding its ecosystem, baidu is also ready to build its own cars in the future.

There are also Xiao Peng who want to hit Tesla with automatic driving. On April 14, Xiaopeng Motor Co., Ltd. showed off the intelligent car Xiaopeng P5 equipped with laser radar. With the addition of lidar, the autopilot system will be upgraded from xpolit 3.0 to 3.5, and the urban NGP function will be added.

At the beginning of January this year, Weilai has released its first self driving car et7, which will be equipped with Weilai full stack automatic driving system NAD, and will also use lidar.

These new cars, which claim to have a high level of automatic driving, have been on the stage of 2021 Shanghai auto show.

"Embracing change" is the theme of 2021 Shanghai auto show.

On the eve of the Shanghai auto show, Xiaomi also made a high-profile announcement about the next car production, after Baidu and Ali also made it clear. With the addition of technology giants, the once-in-a-century revolution in the automotive industry is gradually changing the competitive track and pattern of the automotive industry.

Change is the change of the power source of the automobile from fuel to electric energy, from the vehicle to the intelligent terminal, and the change of the ecological chain of the whole automobile industry and the reshaping of the industry pattern.

Embracing change is the driving force for traditional automobile enterprises to continue to move forward, and it is also a new opportunity for cross-border enterprises to seek.

2021 is of extraordinary significance. It is the first year for China's smart cars to usher in high-level automatic driving, the first year of traditional cars' counterattack against new forces and the first year of great development of cross-border vehicle manufacturing. Shanghai auto show is a grand stage for all forces to compete, and is also the best witness of China's three "new eras".

Counterattack of traditional automobile electrification

Electrification is still the main theme of the auto show. Since this year, multinational auto companies have shown their fangs and entered the main battlefield of electric vehicles. Among them, pure electric platform is their "standard configuration".

After introducing id.4 to the Chinese market, VW pursued the success in this Shanghai auto show, and the new model id.6 appeared. SAIC Volkswagen and FAW-VW continued the dual vehicle strategy and launched id.6x and id.6crozz respectively.

For Toyota, which has always been conservative in pure circuit path, at this auto show, it launched pure electric vehicles based on e-tnga pure electric platform to accelerate the pace of electrification.

Based on the pure electric platform, Cadillac's first pure electric vehicle lyriq was launched at the Shanghai auto show. As a result, GM Group entered the new energy field with a new attitude. The vital ultium platform will cover the electrification layout of its three major brands.

In recent years, Ford, which has been in disadvantageous development in China, has borrowed the opportunity of new energy development to return to the track. Ford put down the pride of a century old auto company and took the initiative to join hands with BYD of China to build a domestic version of Mustang mach-e. The car was launched on April 13 and also appeared at the Shanghai auto show.

The traditional German luxury car BBA (Benz, BMW, Audi) has launched pure electric models based on the traditional oil vehicle platform before, but the market response is not good. In order to promote the electric strategy, BBA showed its pure electric vehicles based on pure electric platform at this auto show. Mercedes Benz's EQS based on EVA pure electric platform and the IX built by BMW's new pure electric platform also made their debut in China at Shanghai auto show. Audi brought Audi e-tron GT on the same platform as Porsche tycan.

In addition, SAIC Audi, which has been playing for four years in many ways, has also shown its true face at this Shanghai auto show. As the first mainstream luxury brand with two joint ventures in China, whether Audi can return to its former glory is full of imagination.

China's new car 2.0 era

In Shanghai in 2017, the new forces made their debut, and the scenery was unlimited.

In Shanghai in 2019, new forces will cross the river by feeling the stones and enter the market in a stumbling way.

In 2021 in Shanghai, there are still a few players left with new car 1.0, and new car 2.0 has arrived.

The once vigorous new car building movement, a group of entrepreneurs with great ideals and their car building stories, some of which have disappeared in the dust of history, but a group of new players come in with their dreams.

If the original stimulus of the first wave of new car building wave is the transformation of automobile electrification, the greater driving force of this new car building movement 2.0 is that software defines cars, and cars change from travel tools to intelligent mobile terminals.

Internet players are coming to an end.

Before the official next car production, baidu showed its posture as an auto driving software supplier on the eve of the auto show. Huawei confidently claims that "automatic driving technology comes first". Next, will it become Bosch in the era of intelligent cars?

In the era of software defined cars, Chinese Internet companies hope to re-establish the rules of the game for car making.

The division of labor in automobile industry chain has changed from OEM, Tier1 and tier2 from bottom to top, and has been transformed into an ecosystem. Cooperation in competition, competition in cooperation.

Will the voice of the future automobile be controlled in the hands of technology companies? What kind of role should traditional automobile enterprises play? We hope to get a clearer judgment at this Shanghai auto show.

Serious opponents make each other stronger.

Driven by new automobile manufacturing forces such as Weilai, ideality and Xiaopeng, the dream of Chinese local automobile enterprises in the field of new energy vehicles is still continuing.

At the Shanghai auto show, BAIC arcfox, Dongfeng lantu, gac-e'an and SAIC Zhiji are shouldering the banner of independent state-owned enterprises and launching a counterattack against emerging forces.

Geely, an independent brand leader that had encountered a setback in the field of new energy, also set out again with krypton and vast structure.

Evergrande automobile, a controversial real estate tycoon, has finally turned ppt into a complete vehicle, and all nine models of hengchi auto have appeared in this Shanghai auto show.

In the current spring tide, thousands of sails are competing for the top.

The century old automobile industry, on the charming Oriental Pearl of Shanghai, once again exudes exciting youth vitality.

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