① Dongfeng and Chang ‘an announced on the same day that the indirect controlling shareholders are planning to restructure; ② Chang’ an Automobile will equip its 100,000-class models with lidar; ③ Geely Galaxy will launch 5 new cars and 2 super-alcohol electric hybrid products this year, hitting millions of sales throughout the year;
Dongfeng and Chang ‘an announced on the same day that indirect controlling shareholders are planning to restructure
On February 9, Changan Automobile and Dongfeng Motor successively issued announcements stating that their respective indirect controlling shareholders were planning a reorganization. China Ordnance Equipment Group Co., Ltd., the indirect controlling shareholder of Chang ‘an Automobile, and Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd., the indirect controlling shareholder of Dongfeng Motor, both stated that they are planning reorganization matters with other state-owned central enterprise groups.
Cailian Automobile: The merger of central automobile enterprises has once again become a hot topic.
Changan Automobile will equip its 100,000-class models with lidar
On February 9, Chang ‘an Automobile Chairman Zhu Huarong said at the Chang’ an Automobile Intelligent Strategy Conference that Chang ‘an Automobile will equip its 100,000-class models with lidar starting this year to increase the AEB collision avoidance speed to 135km/h. In addition, the Avita 07pro+ model will be launched in the near future, equipped with Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving and Hongmeng Systems.
Cailian Automobile: Against the background of price wars among car companies and the rapid “boarding” of smart driving, the lidar industry is facing a large-scale price adjustment.
Geely Galaxy will launch 5 new cars and 2 ultra-alcohol electric hybrid products this year, hitting millions of sales throughout the year.
On February 9, Geely Automobile Group CEO Gan Jiayue announced at the 2025 Group Business Conference that Geely Galaxy will launch five new new energy products this year, as well as two ultra-alcohol hybrid products equipped with the new generation of ketol, ketol and ketol oil. The annual sales target for alcohol and electric hybrid products will hit 1 million units.
Cailian Automobile: In the past 2024, Geely Galaxy was Geely Automobile’s sales trump card.
Chang ‘an Automobile releases “Beidou Tianshu 2.0” plan
On February 9, Chang ‘an Automobile officially released the “Beidou Tianshu 2.0” plan, which will launch the “Four Major Digital Intelligence Upgrade Actions” around the four core areas of digital intelligence products, digital intelligence operations, digital intelligence manufacturing, and digital intelligence ecology to support the “Beidou Tianshu 2.0” plan was reached. At the same time, Changan’s Deep Blue Automobile and Huawei officially signed an agreement to comprehensively deepen business cooperation, and both parties announced that they would comprehensively promote cooperation in the field of intelligent connected vehicles. According to the agreement, Deep Blue Automobile will increase the scale of cooperation with Huawei’s smart car solutions and actively promote the application of intelligent technologies such as Gankun Intelligent Driving and Hongmeng Cockpit; Huawei will provide Deep Blue with more market competitiveness and user value through a new cooperation model.
Cailian Automobile: Smart driving is the shortcoming of most traditional automobile companies.
Multiple car companies take advantage of DeepSeek’s “Smart Express”
On February 8, Dongfeng Motor announced that it had completed the connection of DeepSeek’s full range of large-language models, and its own brand models such as Mengshi, Yipai, Fengshen, and Nano will be used one after another in the near future. Among them, the Dongfeng Warrior 917 car smart cockpit has completed the connection to the DeepSeek-R1 model and is expected to be updated via OTA in April 2025. In addition, the smart smart cockpit team announced that it has completed the fusion test of its self-developed AIAgent and DeepSeek R1 model. According to relevant sources within Zhiji Automobile, its smart cockpit has deeply introduced the DeepSeek model and cooperated with large models such as bean bag and Tongyi to pass in-depth joint training to build a multi-scene plug-in AI matrix platform.
Cailian Motors: DeepSeek kills into the car circle.
Renault restarts or talks with Foxconn on selling Nissan shares
Cailian Motors: Since reorganizing its 25-year alliance with Nissan in 2023, Renault has gradually reduced its shareholding.
(Compiled/commented by Cailian reporter Liu Yang)