Zeekr, Geely’s new premium electrical model, will collaborate with Intel subsidiary Mobileye to increase their strategic know-how partnership, with a goal to ship the world’s first consumer autonomous autos with Level 4 capabilities by 2024.
Geely says that this partnership builds on over 35 years of automotive R&D and manufacturing experience, in addition to Zeekr’s ambition to present an business main autonomous driving answer. The automobile will use Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) true redundant braking, steering and energy.
Under the Open EyeQ idea, 6xEyeQ5 system-on-chips (SoCs) will energy an integration of Zeekr’s proprietary software program applied sciences along with Mobileye True Redundancy sensing, Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS)-based driving coverage and a brand new open collaboration mannequin on REM mapping know-how, Geely says.
Zeekr and Mobileye’s new collaboration expands on the businesses’ lengthy-time period strategic know-how partnership, which incorporates the event of ADAS with enhanced capabilities for Zeekr fashions. The joint efforts are supported by open collaboration with applied sciences together with REM, as Zeekr and Mobileye work towards attaining a “safer and more sophisticated future on the roads”.
“Mobileye has been a strategic partner to our mission of delivering lifestyle vehicles fit for a more sustainable and autonomous future of transportation. Our partnership supports Zeekr and Mobileye’s shared ambitions for leading the global ADAS and AV industry. Zeekr welcomes open collaboration that enables the integration of technological expertise to create a more sophisticated autonomous mobility experience for our customers,” stated Andy An, CEO of Zeekr Intelligent Technology.
“The broadening scope of our partnership reflects just how closely Mobileye and Zeekr are aligned on the vision for future mobility. Zeekr’s confidence in Mobileye as a technology partner demonstrates our ability to execute against joint goals and further solidify our industry leadership,” stated Prof Ammon Shashua, president and CEO of Mobileye.
Based in Ningbo and based in early 2021 as a “global technology-mobility brand with design and engineering capabilities in Sweden”, Zeekr’s first mannequin – the shooting brake-shaped 001 EV – was launched in April 2021, with deliveries beginning in October of final 12 months.
The Zeekr 001 could be had in two powertrain configurations, each utilizing the identical 200 kW (272 PS) and 384 Nm electrical motor. The rear-wheel-drive single-motor model does the 0-100 km/h in 6.9 seconds, whereas the twin-motor all-wheel-drive mannequin doubles up the facility and torque (544 PS/768 Nm) for a dash time of simply 3.8 seconds and a prime velocity exceeding 200 km/h.
As for battery measurement, it’s a selection between 86 and 100 kWh. However, the smaller pack is solely out there on the AWD mannequin, delivering a 526 km vary on the NEDC cycle. The 100 kWh battery is good for a claimed 606 km vary with AWD and 712 km in RWD kind. The 001 solely accepts up to 7 kW of AC energy for dwelling charging, though DC quick charging at up to 360 kW is out there. The latter provides up to 120 km of vary in simply 5 minutes. More on the Zeekr 001 here.
Geely additionally not too long ago introduced a collaboration between Zeekr and Alphabet’s Waymo for the event of a brand new electrical autonomous experience-hailing automobile – extra on that one here.
GALLERY: Zeekr 001
