FAW Nanqi, Mo Hao Zhixing and Chery Lion Run are all intelligent driving subsidiaries behind their own brands.

4? Month? 9? On that day, FAW Group invested? 5000? Ten thousand yuan registered and established FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Jiangning District, Nanjing. According to the description of internal staff, this is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAW Group, focusing on intelligent driving research and development.

Similarly, where is a company called "A Millie's End of Zhihang"? 20 19? Year? 1 1? It was quietly established in Fengtai, Beijing in May.

Zhang Kai, the legal person of the Company, is the deputy chief engineer and director of intelligent driving system development department of Great Wall Motor Technology Center, and Zhen Longbao, the actual controller, is the chief engineer of intelligent driving system development department of Great Wall Motor Technology Center.

Obviously, this is also the smart driving related company of Great Wall.

Earlier, Chery Automobile was there? 20 14? Year? 7? Wuhu Automobile Industry Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. was established in May. This company is located in? 20 17? Year? 12? The month was renamed Lion Technology.

In the broader field of smart cars, there is Chai Weizhi Neng, which was established by Yi Cartoon under Geely and Weichai Power, a veteran commercial vehicle parts manufacturer, and jointly sponsored by FAW, Dongfeng, Changan and China Ordnance Group. T3？ Technology platform. Among them? T3？ The science and technology platform has the strongest financial strength. According to the cooperation and joint venture agreement of several parties, the registered capital of this company is as high as? 160? 1 billion yuan.

1, car companies must master the "brain" of cars.

Behind the establishment of intelligent driving subsidiaries by car companies, a senior industry insider who has been wandering between internet companies and traditional OEMs for many years told the car heart that "car companies can't master the brain of cars."

In the mode of building cars in the traditional mechanical era, car companies mainly do project management, and are responsible for putting forward requirements such as lists and indicators (RFQ), and the specific design and development are the responsibility of suppliers.

Therefore, car companies have actually become system integrators, and the core technologies of parts are mainly in the hands of major suppliers.

From the mechanical era to the intelligent networking era, its core components are no longer the engine, gearbox and chassis, but the "brain" of smart cars composed of new architecture, chips, software and data.

If the "brain" is still in the hands of external suppliers, car companies will lose their dominant position in the future development and even become foundries. The rapid rise of Tesla is largely due to its control and transformation of the "brain" of the car.

Nowadays, domestic OEMs have also set up technological innovation centers, namely autonomous driving, car networking and? AI？ Technology has gradually entered the operation stage of independent subsidiaries.

The biggest advantage of setting up a separate company to develop and operate a new generation of technical products is that it can be independent of the parent company structure and enjoy higher freedom on the basis of relying on the resources of the parent company.

The establishment of these companies means that the industrial chain of smart cars in China is undergoing profound structural changes.

In the future, these companies will have the opportunity to change the current supply chain system and become new suppliers of smart cars.

2. FAW goes south and builds Nanjing with high salary? AI？ R & d team

2020? Year? 4? Month? 9? On that day, FAW Group invested? 5000? Ten thousand yuan registered and established FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "FAW Nanjing") in Jiangning District, Nanjing.

The new company's office in Jiangning District has not been renovated, but it has started to recruit all over the country? AI？ Genius.

According to the official introduction of FAW Nanjing, the team will rely on deep learning, data mining and other technologies to independently break through the software development of autonomous driving, intelligent interaction and big data, and apply it to autonomous driving, intelligent cockpit and other fields.

A headhunter close to FAW Nanjing revealed to Auto Heart that this subsidiary is currently recruiting talents in data development, algorithm, visual and perceptual integration.

FAW Nanjing is affiliated to FAW R&D Institute, which is Laoqi Institute. One of the advantages of an independent company that breaks away from the original organizational structure is that it can "break through the original salary structure".

According to the internal staff disclosure of FAW Nanjing, the starting salary for graduate recruitment is RMB? 20? Wan+,where is the supervisor? 35? -? 50? Between ten thousand.

In contrast, "the director of the traditional automobile direction may also be there?" 40? About ten thousand. "So this? AI？ There is a reason why the technical development team is not in Changchun.

In the governance structure of the new company, Chen Bo is the general manager and Li Fengjun is the executive director.

Chen Bo is the head of the network group of FAW Intelligent Network Development and Research Institute, and the main person in charge? E/E？ Vehicle network development; Li Fengjun is currently the vice president of FAW R&D Research Institute and the president of Intelligent Networking Development Research Institute.

At the level of the whole group, the establishment of FAW Nanjing is a brand-new attempt.

Prior to this, FAW established strategic cooperation with Baidu, Huawei, Mu Zong Science and Technology, Yitong and Sagitar Juchuang.

20 19? Year? 7? In June, FAW Hongqi released "2030? Technology development strategy in 2000 ",announced that it will invest? 1500? 1 100 million yuan is used for research and development and investment of new energy and intelligent networking technology, and the number of R&D personnel is increased to? 5000? People, go all out to new energy and intelligence.

In the same year, Hongqi and Baidu invested in a small-scale production line for mass production based on Hongqi? EV？ what's up Robotics Technology Center.

In terms of autonomous driving, the overall strategic plan announced by FAW is:

20 19? Year? -? 2020? Now, will FAW Group realize it? L3？ Commercialization and? L4？ Demonstration operation of class self-driving vehicles; 202 1? Year? -? 2025? Will it come true in 2008? L4？ Commercialization and? L5？ Demonstration operation of class self-driving vehicles; 2026? Year? -? 2030? Will it come true in 2008? L5？ Commercialization of class-1 self-driving vehicles.

Recently, FAW Group has cooperated with Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Cloud, car home, IBM, NTTDATA? Wait? 7? A head company signed a deep strategic cooperation agreement.

* * * The eldest son of China automobile industry is in urgent need of mastering the auto "brain" which can be controlled independently.

3. Lion Technology, Wu returned to Chery Intelligent to take the helm.

Chery automobile as early as? 20 14? Year? 7? Wuhu Automotive Industry Technology Research Institute was established in May, followed by? 20 17? Year? 12? In May, the company changed its name to Wuhu Xiongshi Automobile Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Xiongshi Technology").

Lion Technology is currently establishing or preparing to establish branches of R&D institutions in Silicon Valley, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Like FAW Nanjing Technology, it also recruits senior intelligent network engineers in Nanjing.

20 18? Year? 4? In June, Chery released the group's intelligent strategic brand "Chery Lion? Chery? Lion includes five platforms: lion wisdom driving, lion wisdom cloud, lion wisdom making, lion wisdom winning and lion wisdom walking.

Among them, Xiongshi Zhijia, Xiongshi Zhiyun and Xiongshi Zhiying are the core business segments of Xiongshi Technology, which correspond to autonomous driving, intelligent interconnection and data operation services respectively.

According to the official introduction of Xiongshi Technology, the company already has an invention patent? 564? Item, completed the research and development of the third generation of driverless vehicles, and the lion cloud system has been fully equipped with Chery Tiggo? 8? Model number and subsequent models.

20 19? Year? 9? 10, at an industrial conference held in Hefei, Anhui Province, Wu, who has a deep relationship with Chery, made a public appearance and became the general manager and new helm of Chery Lion Run.

Wu has served as director and vice president of vehicle development department of Chery Engineering Research Institute, vice president of intelligent driving business of Baidu and vice president of Baoneng. These experiences have brought him cross-border experiences in the fields of Internet technology, traditional cars and smart cars.

Going for a ride? 16? Many years later, Wu returned to Chery to promote the "rise of heroes" in Chery's intelligent era.

4. The Great Wall goes north and the intelligent driving company "Millimeter Wisdom" is established.

20 19? Year? 1 1? In June, a company named "Mo Hao Star" was quietly incorporated in Fengtai. Its legal person is Zhang Kai and its actual controller is Zhen Longbao. What is the registered capital? 5000? Ten thousand yuan.

then what 2020? Year? 1? In June, Mo Hao Star set up a branch in Baoding, Hebei. The registered address of the company is Chaoyang South Street, Lianchi District, Baoding City. 2076? Number.

In this street, there is also a well-known independent brand-Great Wall Motor.

Zhang Kai and Zhen Longbao, the former is the deputy chief engineer of Great Wall Motor Technology Center and the head of intelligent driving system development department; The latter is the chief engineer of the intelligent driving system development department of Great Wall Motor Technology Center.

Basically, it can be confirmed that the intelligent driving foresight branch of the Great Wall Technology Center will specialize in the research and development of smart cars and autonomous driving technology in the future.

Great Wall Motor previously released the "i-pilot" developed for smart driving cars. Smart pilot "autopilot platform.

20 17? Now, this car company has launched "i-pilot? When the plan announced the "smart pilot" autopilot platform, it was:

202 1? In, i-pilot was first launched? 1.0 "expressway is self-driving, which can run on the main roads and ramps of expressway and urban expressways in China, and can also independently cope with special working conditions such as road maintenance, traffic congestion and tunnels. 202 1? Simultaneous "i-Pilot? 2.0 "The development of urban driverless technology can realize the unmanned driving of specific sections in urban areas, which is used to support * * * to enjoy new functions such as traveling and calling a car remotely by mobile phone. 2023? In "i-pilot? 3.0 "Full-time driverless system, passed? V2X？ The introduction of vehicle communication technology can realize unmanned driving in urban areas and more areas. 2025? Now, by introducing brand-new sensors, i-pilot will be launched with greater safety and adaptability. 4.0 "driverless system.

At present, the intelligent driving system of Great Wall Motor is developed in a cooperative mode among Baoding, China, Detroit and Bangalore.

Among them, China team is responsible for the overall management of the project, the definition of scenarios and requirements, and the definition, testing and verification of technical solutions. The American team is located in Detroit, recruiting outstanding talents and supporting core technologies; The Indian team relies on local resources to specialize in software development.

5. Geely Automobile's geek is easy to cartoon? UI】

Yi cartoon was founded in? 20 16? Year? 5? In September, it was originally a partnership managed by an equity investment fund funded by Shen He? 1000? Ten thousand yuan was incorporated.

Shen used to work in the electronic network? CEO. After leaving, Shen became a member of the "one-card"? CEO？ At that time, he was also the vice president of Geely Automobile Research Institute.

Yi cartoon has created a very important one for Geely? TSP (remote information processing? Service? Provider) cloud platform.

20 18? In 2008, its main force was to build an intelligent car machine system? GKUI？ The release has been carried out in Geely, Link and Proton under Geely Holding. 3? On a brand, involved? 20? Various models.

20 19? Year? 2? In June, the shareholder of Yi Cartoon changed, and Zhejiang Jichuang Auto Parts Co., Ltd. became the major shareholder of Yi Cartoon (holding shares? 70%), Geely Automobile? CTO？ Feng Qingfeng became the chairman of Yi Cartoon.

What is the current employee size of Yi Cartoon? 1500? The company has set up branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Dalian, Shenzhen and Sweden, the hometown of Volvo, and its business areas include digital cockpit, active safety, autonomous driving, vehicle networking cloud platform and even chip field.

Beyond Yi Cartoon, where is Geely? Adas? There are related companies such as Fretek in this field, and their existence? 20 19? Also chose Volvo and? Veoneer？ Joint venture company? Zenuity？ As? Adas? The preferred supplier of autonomous driving.

This year? 4? In June, the company was split again, and its high-level autonomous driving business returned to Volvo, which will become an independent subsidiary in the future.

With the integration of Geely and Volvo, Yi Cartoon, Fu Ruite and? Zenuity？ It will become the core supplier lineup of Geely smart cars.

6. Wei Chai Smart, the second spring of an established commercial vehicle supplier.

Car Heart reported earlier? 20 19? Year? 1 1? In June, Weichai Power acquired Tianjin Qingzhi Technology, an intelligent driving startup, in a low-key manner, and laid out commercial vehicles? Adas? Domain, 6.6? The purchase amount of 1 100 million yuan has also become the largest acquisition in the field of intelligent driving in China.

Internally, 20 18? Year? 1 1? In June, Weichai Power Co., Ltd. also initiated the establishment of Weifang Wei Chai Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of? 1? 1 100 million yuan. Zhan Jun, the former Baidu unmanned vehicle research team, is also a shareholder of the company.

According to reports, Wei Chai Intelligent Technology is mainly engaged in the design, development, production and sales of intelligent assisted driving and driverless systems and related technologies.

According to the recruitment information, Wei Chai Smart is vigorously recruiting technical leaders in the direction of intelligent networking, with an annual salary of one million.

Recruitment positions include automotive electronic architecture, ADAS, domain controller, functional safety, intelligent network connection, engine? ECU, cloud platform, chip design technology leader, but also a global layout, including China, the United States, German, Indian, Japanese and other regions.

7、 160? Registered capital 1 100 million yuan, backed by three major car companies: T3? Technology platform

2020? Year? 1? In June, FAW, Dongfeng and Changan signed a joint agreement with China Ordnance Equipment Group and Nanjing Jiangning Economic Development Technology? T3？ Joint venture cooperation agreement of science and technology platform company.

This signing? T3？ Registered capital of technology platform company? 160? 1 100 million yuan, which can be said to be the strongest financial strength in the layout of many car companies.

160? 1 100 million yuan, of which FAW, Dongfeng and Jiangning Economic Development Technology respectively contributed? 40? 1 100 million yuan, respectively contributed by Changan and its actual controlling party, China Ordnance Equipment Group? 5? 1 billion yuan and? 35? One hundred million yuan * * *? 40? 1 billion yuan.

The "Big Mac" project, an automotive high-tech platform, will focus on developing core technologies in the fields of electric platform and advanced chassis control, hydrogen fuel power platform, intelligent driving, central computing platform, etc., and acquire key resources in related fields, so as to realize a new round of automotive technology upgrading and promote the formation of the core competitiveness of the next generation of automobiles.

Some insiders believe that China's major independent brand car companies have joined hands in such a big battle. T3？ Science and technology, in fact, is to reduce costs and control risks in the early stage of technology research and development.

Re-note? T3, whether the three major car companies can play "king bombing", wait for time to give an answer.

8. Why do car companies set up subsidiaries one after another?

In addition to the above-mentioned enterprises, China's own brand of intelligent technology new companies, as well as Saic and Ali's Zebra Zhixing, Changan and Tencent's Wu Tong Che Lian, Great Wall's car networking related company Dou Xian Intelligent and so on.

The establishment of a series of innovative technology companies and joint ventures fully shows that the top management of the main engine factory has realized the urgency of independent research and development of smart car technology.

There are many considerations behind setting up a subsidiary to operate independently:

First of all, it is conducive to recruiting high-end talents.

High-end talents mainly care about two factors: salary and development space.

Compared with the relatively stable salary system in traditional car companies, external subsidiaries have greater freedom, get high salaries, and subsidiaries can also carry out equity incentives.

The organizational structure of traditional car companies is stable, and the decision-making power has been in the hands of existing high-level. Talents who truly understand new technologies, new products and new business models often have no chance to have the right to speak in new projects.

If an external subsidiary is established, real people will have more opportunities to take on greater responsibilities. Even if there is a temporary mismatch, the so-called "small boat turns around" can be quickly adjusted.

Secondly, independent subsidiaries facilitate external financing.

The research and development of new technology products and the exploration of new business models all mean a lot of capital investment. Splitting subsidiaries helps enterprises to raise funds independently and obtain more resources from third parties.

Furthermore, independent subsidiaries can provide products and services for other car companies in addition to serving the parent company in the future.

Although the feasibility of this model is not high in the early stage, it is also a healthier model to have the opportunity to supply products and services to other car companies after the enterprise develops and grows and its technological leading position is fully established in the later stage.

Historically, Delphi spun off by GM, Denso spun off by Toyota, and Visteon spun off by Ford are all parts giants born in transition.

We also expect the independent subsidiaries of China's own brand car companies to have the opportunity to produce new top suppliers and build the "brain" of smart cars in China.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.