Li Auto envisage d’entrer sur le marché des camions autonomes, Des sources disent

Li Auto has formed certain goals for the project and will see phased results next year, Selon les médias locaux.

Li Auto prévoit une incursion dans les camions autonomes, Un effort qui sera dirigé par son vice-président de l’activité de conduite intelligente, Lang Xianpeng, Le média local Jiemian a rapporté aujourd’hui, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The extended-range véhicule électrique maker has been seeking autonomous truck-related talent through multiple headhunters, and has already interviewed people who have worked at other autonomous driving companies, D’après le rapport.

The job title is director of truck autonomous driving technology, and the main tasks include being responsible for system design, development, testing and pilot validation of autonomous driving for factory logistics trucks, Le rapport indique que.

Candidates need to have more than 10 years of experience, and more than six years of experience in R&D management and technical architecture, and have led the construction of core business systems, D’après le rapport.

Over the past year, Li Auto’s internal team has held several discussions around the value point of L4 autonomous driving technology, with the main target directions including passenger cars and commercial vehicles, the person familiar with the matter said.

In mid- to late-June of this year, Li Auto management largely determined that it would enter the autonomous truck segment of the commercial vehicle sector, the person said.

There is a view within Li Auto that the company has accumulated a large amount of data through assisted driving systems for passenger cars, and the data is of great value in L3 and L4 intelligent driving systems, Jiemian’s report said.

From that perspective, Li Auto has the advantage of going across sectors, Le rapport indique que.

Li Auto’s internal team has formed certain goals for the project and will see phased results next year, according to Jiemian.

Li Auto does have the strength to incubate an autonomous truck project internally, Le rapport indique que.

In terms of its main business, Li Auto has seen rapid sales growth so far this year, and has far surpassed Nio and Xpeng, with its deliveries in the first half of the year already exceeding those for the whole of 2022, Jiemian said.

In terms of company size, Li Auto’s current market capitalization stands at $42.25 milliard, compared to Nio’s $18.75 billion and Xpeng’s $16.41 milliard, the report noted.

Hours after Jiemian’s report was published, local automotive media outlet Yiche quoted Li Auto’s response as saying that the company has no plans to enter the autonomous truck space for the time being.

Li Auto is indeed hiring in the autonomous truck space, but it’s for a smart-driving logistics program for efficient parts distribution, the company said.

Li Auto delivered 34,914 véhicules en août, en haut 2.29 percent from July and up 663.82 pourcentage d’une année sur l’autre, according to the company’s September 1 libérer.

In the first eight months of the year, Li Auto delivered 208,165 véhicule, en haut 176.10 pourcentage d’une année sur l’autre.

To date, Li Auto’s cumulative deliveries since its inception stand at 465,499 Unités, according to data monitored by Auto in China.