The Chinese electric automotive three way partnership Jidu Auto of Baidu and Geely has introduced its first two models. These are an electric SUV and an electric sedan, that are supposed to give attention to autonomous driving.
The Robo-01 is an e-SUV with two electric drives that produce a mixed 400 kW and a 100 kWh battery from CATL, which is claimed to supply a variety of 600 km in response to Chinese requirements. Deliveries of the Robo-01 are scheduled to start throughout 2023.
The Robo-02 is an e-sedan for which no technical knowledge has but been launched. Should the sedan take over the drive of the SUV mannequin, the vary ought to exceed that of the SUV attributable to higher aerodynamics.
As the mannequin names of the two automobiles already recommend, the Jidu models are presupposed to be robotic automobiles. The e-drive within the type of Geely’s SEA {hardware} platform is thus solely the idea for the autonomous driving capabilities and the connectivity software program that Baidu desires to contribute. One instance: not like the E-SUV, the Robo-02 not has door handles – the doorways could be opened by voice command or by smartphone by way of a Bluetooth connection.
There is not any additional details about the pc {hardware} for the Baidu software program for the Robo-02. The Robo-01 is supplied with two Nvidia Orin X chips that provide as much as 508 TOPS of computing energy. The SUV additionally has 31 sensors, together with two lidar items, 5 millimetre-wave radar sensors, 12 ultrasonic radars and 12 HD cameras.
Baidu and Geely had introduced a few yr in the past that they might make investments a complete of about 400 million US {dollars} in their electric automotive three way partnership Jidu Auto. The Robo-01 has been on sale in China since final October and prices 399,800 yuan (presently 54,240 euros) within the restricted ‘Lunar Edition’.
cnevpost.com, jidu.cn
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