Sany Heavy Truck and Pony.ai established a joint venture to mass-produce autonomous trucks within the year

On July 28, Sany Heavy Truck and Pony.ai, an autonomous driving company, announced the establishment of a joint venture.Jointly create high-end autonomous driving heavy truck products, and jointly carry out the research and development, production and sales of L4 autonomous driving heavy truck products.

The establishment of the joint venture company, the two parties will carry out comprehensive cooperation based on their respective resources and technological advantages, Sany Heavy Truck wire-controlled chassis and vehicle development technology + Pony.ai "virtual driver" technology, in-depth cooperation.Jointly define and develop vehicle-grade, L4-level high-end intelligent heavy truck products with redundancy for future smart logistics, and empower future trunk logistics and transportation.

The joint venture plans to achieve small-scale mass production of autonomous trucks in 2022 and large-scale production in 2024. In a few years, the annual output is expected to exceed 10,000 units.

At present, it is based on the Sany new energy truck platformTwo prototypes of autonomous drivingIt has carried out comprehensive road tests, with a cumulative mileage of more than 20,000 kilometers, laying a solid foundation for subsequent vehicle development and mass production.

Liang Linhe, chairman of Sany Heavy Truck, said, "The cooperation between the two sides is a strong alliance and complementary advantages, which will bring revolutionary changes to the logistics industry, greatly improve logistics efficiency and vehicle safety, and reduce logistics costs and drivers' labor intensity." Will work with Pony.aiLet's create a few heavyweight iconic application scenarios, quickly implement the actual operation instead of staying in the prototype stage. ”

In addition, Peng Jun, co-founder and CEO of Pony.ai, said: Sany has industry-leading heavy truck manufacturing technology, and has deeply laid out key areas such as new energy heavy trucks and intelligent networking, while Pony.ai has technical advantages in the field of autonomous driving and has started the practice in the field of smart logistics, and the cooperation between the two sides will beThe key to creating a closed loop of smart logistics ecology。

Based on the commercial operation experience of both parties, based on more reasonable vehicle control and path planning,Autonomous trucks can save 10%-20% of energy compared to conventional trucks.In addition, with the gradual expansion of the scale of new energy products of the joint venture, by 2030, the carbon dioxide emissions of the joint venture will be reduced by more than one million tons per year compared with conventional truck manufacturers of the same size, which is equivalent to the carbon dioxide absorbed by tens of thousands of acres of forests every year.

About Sany Heavy Truck

Founded in 2018, Sany Heavy Truck, a pioneer in digital and intelligent transformation of Sany Group, has successively launched fuel heavy trucks, electric heavy trucks, hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and intelligent trucks relying on industry-leading R&D and manufacturing capabilitiesSwap stationsand other products.In 2020, it ranked sixth in the tractor industry, and in the whole year of 2021 and the first half of 2022, it was the national sales champion of new energy heavy trucks.

As early as 2019, Sany and Deutz established a joint venture to jointly develop and manufacture diesel engines; At the beginning of 2022, it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with EVE Power and Telai to cooperate in new energy heavy trucks, power battery manufacturing and R&D, and battery cascade utilization. The alliance between Sany and Pony.ai will jointly carry out the R&D, production and sales of L4 autonomous driving heavy trucks.

About Pony.ai

Pony.ai (Pony.ai) was founded at the end of 2016.We are committed to providing safe, advanced, and reliable full-stack autonomous driving technology to revolutionize the future of transportation.With the latest breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence technology, Pony.ai has established cooperation with Toyota, FAW, GAC and other top international and domestic car manufacturers, and has become the first company in the world to launch autonomous mobility services (Robotaxi) in both China and the United States. As of March 2022, the company is valued at $8.5 billion, making it one of the most valuable autonomous driving companies in the world.