Exclusive: Huawei lidar gets on the bus, and the price may be as low as several hundred yuan.

The competition of vehicle-mounted lidar has entered the stage of mass production.

Recently, Huawei began to intensively release news about mass production of automotive-grade lidar. This means that Huawei is ready for mass production of automotive lidar products.

Before this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, Wang Jun, president of BU, Huawei's smart car solution, said in an interview that Huawei's lidar has become an explosive product snapped up by car companies and is considering the overall release of lidar products in the near future.

Che Yun learned that Huawei hopes to build an industry-leading one-stop intelligent driving sensor product line, including millimeter-wave radar with fifth-generation technology, 96-line laser radar and 5.4MP high-definition camera.

Huawei's lidar is positioned as a medium-range lidar, with the longest detection range of 150m and the horizontal field of view of 120 degrees, which has the ability to truly mass-produce commercial vehicles.

"Our standard advanced autopilot uses three laser radars, and how much we need to use in the future is related to performance improvement and platform computing power requirements." Wang Jun revealed.

According to Huawei's plan, its intelligent driving platform adopts a flexible and extensible platform architecture. Its standard platform supporting L3 autopilot will adopt MDC600? Pro's computing platform, its computing power can reach more than 300TOPs, and it can access up to 8 laser radars. After adding computing power and sensors, it will upgrade to MDC? 900? Pro platform will be able to support L4 automatic driving.

And after subtracting the computing power and sensor, it can become MDC? 300? Pro platform supports L2+ level assisted driving, and can also be equipped with 1 and multiple laser radars.

Huawei's mass-produced lidar is very small, and it will not be placed on the roof like the 360-degree panoramic lidar of the L4 self-driving test car currently on the market.

According to Che Yun's speculation, Huawei's intelligent driving standard three lidar will be distributed at the front grille of the car and above the wheel eyebrows on the left and right sides in front of the car.

According to the pictures provided by the source, this lidar has been tested on a Weilai ES8. This test car has Suzhou license plate.

According to Huawei, many tests of Huawei's intelligent driving are completed in Suzhou, and most of the auto parts business will be laid out in Suzhou in the future.

The price is competitive

The news of Huawei's self-developed lidar first appeared a year ago.

20 19 10 at the world intelligent networked automobile conference held in Beijing, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, comprehensively expounded Huawei's business layout in smart cars. Among them, Xu Zhijun revealed, "Huawei will also use its own? 5G？ Technology research and development of millimeter-wave radar to achieve all-weather imaging, and at the same time, it will make full use of the world's leading photoelectric technology to develop lidar, and truly solve the cost and performance problems faced by lidar. "

Huawei is not just talking about lidar. The creation of sensor ecology will be an important step for Huawei's intelligent driving platform.

In August this year, at the Wuhan Blue Book Forum, Wang Jun made a show of lidar. "Huawei has a photoelectric technology research center in Wu Hanyou, and is developing lidar technology, with the goal of rapidly developing 100 line lidar in a short time. In the future, it is planned to reduce the cost of lidar to $200 or even $65,438+000. "

However, sources close to Huawei revealed that at present, Huawei's lidar can't achieve such a low cost, but it is basically in the range of several hundred dollars. Compared with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of mechanical lidar on the market, this price is already very cheap.

According to Huawei insiders, lidar has become an explosive product snapped up by OEMs.

Wang Jun told Che Yun. Com understands that in order to achieve a higher level of autonomous driving, most automobile main engine plants begin to consider using lidar. "The specific use of a few is not necessarily, but most of them will be used. Lidar is definitely a big trend in the future. "

Recently, many automobile main engine factories have also announced the scheme of getting on the train with lidar.

At this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, Xpeng Motors announced the software and hardware upgrade plan for the next generation of autonomous driving architecture, and said that it would be the first to launch the world's first mass-produced intelligent electric vehicle equipped with laser radar in 20021year. This news also ignited the enthusiasm of the capital market. However, Xpeng Motors did not disclose the supplier of its lidar.

Just before Guangzhou Auto Show, Zhu Huarong, Chairman of Changan Automobile, also announced that he would join hands with Huawei and Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. to build a high-end smart car brand. In its announced Changan Ark architecture, 36 sensors, including 5 lidar, will be retained.

Beiqi New Energy is a direct official announcement. 165438+1October 27th, at the "Internet Car Wuzhen Nighttalk" forum hosted by Global Motors, deputy general manager of BAIC New Energy and ARCFOX? Yu, president of BU, revealed: "Together with Huawei, we have created the latest product of ARCFOX Polar Fox-HBT. The new car is equipped with three 96-line lidar, six millimeter-wave radars, 12 cameras and 13 ultrasonic sensors. The chip computing power provided by Huawei reaches 352 trillion times per second. " This remark is a rumor that Huawei Lidar got on the bus.

Che Yun's summary:

Wang Yuquan, a global scientific and technological innovation industry expert and founding partner of Hai Yin Capital, said, "Lidar is about to enter a mature stage, and the competition is cost advantage and scale advantage, that is, mass production capacity."

Whoever can build a laser radar that is more in line with vehicle regulations and standards and has lower cost will be able to occupy the market faster.

At present, the competitors of lidar mainly include Verdun, Ibeo, Innoviz and Leddar? International manufacturers such as Tech, domestic start-ups such as Wosai Technology and Sagitar Juchuang have also made great achievements in this field.

However, from the perspective of mass production and commercial competition, it is obvious that Huawei's full-stack self-developed delivery capability and low-cost precision manufacturing capability accumulated over the years are unmatched by these foreign manufacturers and entrepreneurs.

However, the drone unicorn DJI, also from Shenzhen, also launched a lidar product with a price of several hundred dollars this year, which may be one of Huawei's main competitors.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.