Li Auto วางแผนที่จะเข้าสู่ตลาดรถบรรทุกอัตโนมัติ, แหล่งข่าวกล่าว

หลี่ออโต้ has formed certain goals for the project and will see phased results next year, ตามสื่อท้องถิ่น.

Li Auto กําลังวางแผนโจมตีรถบรรทุกอัตโนมัติ, ความพยายามที่นําโดยรองประธานฝ่ายธุรกิจขับเคลื่อนอัจฉริยะ, หลาง เซียนเผิง, สื่อท้องถิ่น Jiemian รายงานในวันนี้, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The extended-range รถยนต์ไฟฟ้า maker has been seeking autonomous truck-related talent through multiple headhunters, and has already interviewed people who have worked at other autonomous driving companies, ตามรายงาน.

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, รายงานระบุว่า.

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, ตามรายงาน.

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, รายงานระบุว่า.

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, รายงานระบุว่า.

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 พันล้าน, compared to Nio’s $18.75 billion and Xpeng’s $16.41 พันล้าน, 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, บริษัทกล่าวว่า.

Li Auto delivered 34,914 ยานพาหนะในเดือนสิงหาคม, ขึ้น 2.29 percent from July and up 663.82 เปอร์เซ็นต์เมื่อเทียบเป็นรายปี, according to the company’s September 1 ปล่อย.

In the first eight months of the year, Li Auto delivered 208,165 รถ ถัง, ขึ้น 176.10 เปอร์เซ็นต์เมื่อเทียบเป็นรายปี.

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