Reporters recently learned from the China Society of Automotive Engineers that China's top ten automotive technology trends in 2027 were officially released. These top ten technology trends include:
Solid-state batteries with a specific energy density of 400 watt hours per kilogram have entered the pilot stage;
High-security RISC-V automotive MCU welcomes its first year of mass production;
The application of integrated vehicle motion control technology will accelerate its popularity;
V2G (vehicle-to-network interaction technology) can provide reverse flexible adjustment capabilities of millions of kilowatts per day;
Magnesium alloy integrated body forming large castings will be used in small scale;
High-level autonomous truck fleets have entered thousand-vehicle level demonstration operations;
The engineering verification of distributed wheel hub drive is accelerated in an all-round way;
The cockpit end-side model deployment parameters of mainstream production models exceeded 14B (14 billion);
Connected assisted driving has moved from demonstration and verification to small batch pre-installation;
Metal 3D printing technology will make collaborative breakthroughs in materials, design, efficiency and other aspects.
Experts said that these ten major technological trends fully reflect that the key core technologies of my country's intelligent connected new energy vehicles are accelerating breakthroughs and industrialization.
Zheng Yali, deputy secretary-general of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, said that the technological innovation of intelligent connected new energy vehicles shows three distinctive characteristics:
The integrated innovation of intelligence and electrification is continuing to deepen.
Innovations in new materials and new structures promote in-depth breakthroughs in automotive technological innovation.
Cross-border integration innovation promotes the continuous expansion of the boundaries of automotive technological innovation.
The rapid rise of China’s intelligent and connected automobile supply chain
China's new energy vehicle production and sales have ranked first in the world for many years in a row. While leading in scale, the intelligent connected vehicle supply chain represented by on-board chips, intelligent driving algorithms, and vehicle AI technology is also rapidly emerging.
In the competition of intelligent connected cars, chip computing power and algorithm models are the technical base. A relevant person in charge of a technology company told reporters that their computing architecture has gone through three rounds of iterations. In ten years, computing performance has increased hundreds of times, and cumulative chip shipments have reached 15 million sets.
Xu Jian, executive director and chief ecological officer of Horizon, believes that China’s intelligent connected vehicles, especially in the field of intelligent driving, are an innovation highland. China has sufficient market demand and policy promotion, allowing the entire industry to achieve rapid iteration.
Breakthroughs in upstream supply chain technology have also provided strong support for the intelligent implementation of vehicle companies. Artificial intelligence and large vehicle models are reconstructing the technical base of the entire vehicle. Through mass-produced full-field AI technology systems, vehicle companies have opened up the collaboration of smart driving, cockpit, chassis, power and other systems, turning AI car manufacturing from a concept into a reality.
Li Chuanhai, president of Geely Automobile Research Institute, said that the purpose of enterprises' global AI is not to simply stack functions, but to collaborate in various fields through the central brain on the entire vehicle to form vehicle intelligence.
Experts say that my country's number of companies entering the top 100 global auto parts companies has increased from 1 in 2013 to 17 currently. China's intelligent networked new energy vehicles have shifted from single-point technological breakthroughs to systematic capabilities.
my country's automobile industry is accelerating the construction of a transparent supply chain
There are thousands of auto parts. For a long time, parts companies need to adapt to multiple sets of incompatible data standards and interfaces to connect with different OEMs, and repeatedly build multiple sets of data docking systems. Once quality problems occur, traceability and investigation are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the phenomenon of "data islands" in the industry is prominent. It has now become the consensus of the industry to improve the production efficiency of automobiles and solve the problem of inconsistent data standards between OEMs and parts companies.
my country's automotive industry is accelerating the construction of a transparent automotive supply chain. Since the China Society of Automotive Engineers and Shanghai International Automobile City jointly initiated the construction of an automotive transparent supply chain project with 18 mainstream vehicle companies, 25 parts and components companies have completed data access, focusing on data quality control in the production process. The maximum daily data access volume of the platform has exceeded 3 million.
Huang Junlin, vice president of Baolong Technology, said that now with a transparent supply chain, auto parts manufacturers only need to provide one set of systems and one set of data. In terms of efficiency, the response time that originally took several months has now been reduced to one or two minutes.
In the next step, my country's automobile industry will expand the data scope of the transparent supply chain, accelerate digital construction in multiple fields, and allow digital interconnection to better empower the coordinated development of the automobile industry chain.
