On August 6, the Xiangjie S9, the first executive luxury flagship sedan in the city’s automotive industry jointly launched by Huawei and BAIC, was officially released. It is reported that BAIC’s new energy Xiangjie super factory has been officially put into use in Beijing, and the future Xiangjie S9 will be produced here and driven to all parts of the country.
"Enjoy the world S9 is bigger than the Big Ben, and the housing rate is high." Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei, chairperson of end point BG, and chairperson of smart car solutions BU, used the "housing rate" of buying a house as an analogy when introducing the space efficiency of the car. According to reports, the car is ahead of international famous brand luxury models in factors such as space efficiency, braking distance, wind resistance coefficient, and battery life. For example, this car is equipped with the exclusive Tuling platform for D-class cars, equipped with five-speed adaptive adjustment air suspension, 100-zero braking distance is only 32.77 meters, the first motion sickness soothing mode in the industry, and equipped with the first mass-produced car rear zero-gravity seats.
According to market statistics, the independent penetration rate of China’s executive luxury car market in 2023 is only 8.3%, which means that for every 100 executive luxury cars, only 8 are domestic independent brands, which is not only a challenge for independent brands, but also means huge market potential.
Zhang Jianyong, secretary of the Party Committee and chairperson of BAIC Group, frankly said that the impact of domestic independent brands on the high-end luxury car market must break through two major difficulties. On the one hand, it is necessary to break through the user perception that the high-end luxury car market was mainly monopolized by multinational manufacturers in the past. On the other hand, through the application of many new technologies, the stability, comfort, safety and other aspects of vehicle performance can exceed that of imported luxury cars.
As the backbone of China’s auto industry and an important representative of Beijing’s auto industry, BAIC has a history of 66 years. Zhang Jianyong said that as the largest shareholder of Mercedes-Benz, BAIC has maintained a long-term and deep cooperation with the world’s No. 1 luxury car brand. Its car-making experience of more than 5 million high-end luxury cars in the past 20 years will help Xiangjie S9 become a masterpiece to impact the executive luxury car market.
In the development of the Xiangjie S9, BAIC’s high-end intelligent manufacturing capabilities have been deeply integrated with Huawei’s digital technology. For example, after being equipped with the Huawei ADS (Advanced Intelligent Driving System) 3.0 system, the driver of the Xiangjie S9 can achieve "parking space to parking space" intelligent driving between the departure and destination, while many smart cars on the market still need to have clear lane lines to start intelligent driving. BAIC Group has developed the most advanced fully digital high-end electric platform – BAIC’s "North Star" platform, and tailor-made the Xiangjie Super Factory for Xiangjie. The overall comprehensive automation rate has reached the industry’s advanced level, and some key processes have been 100% automated.
In Miyun, Beijing, on the production line of the BAIC New Energy Xiangjie Super Factory, a super robot named "Titan No. 1", a big orange guy with a height of several people, is grabbing a large luxury car frame and quickly and accurately transporting it to the designated location from 6.4 meters away. There are 25 automatic production lines in the super factory, and the positioning, riveting, welding, painting and other processes are completed by robots as the main force. There are 527 robots in the welding workshop alone. In the confined space of the painting workshop, the control of paint coating thickness, paint orange peel and vividness, paint gloss, paint color difference and other links are all robots, and the spraying automation rate has reached 100%.
At the same time, it also has the world’s leading ADS intelligent driving calibration system. Popularly understood, "calibration" can be compared to a precise "tuning" or "calibration" process, which can ensure that all systems and components of the vehicle can cooperate accurately to achieve the best operating condition. After the LIDAR, millimeter-wave radar, gyroscope and camera equipped with the whole vehicle are fully automatic calibration, it can ensure that the vehicle comes with qualified "clairvoyant and tailwind" when it leaves the factory. In addition, BAIC has also introduced the industry-leading "OurHours quality monitoring and sensing system", which means that each car has its own file, so that the whole process can be monitored and traced.
It is reported that the planned production capacity of the first phase of Xiangjie Super Factory is 120,000 vehicles, which can be expanded to 300,000 vehicles in the future to achieve one car off the production line in one minute to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery. (Sun Qiru)