News｜NVIDIA DRIVE has become the self-driving technology of choice for many electric vehicle manufacturers

NVIDIA announced on January 8, 2024 that Li Auto, a pioneer in extended-range electric vehicles (EVs), has selected NVIDIA DRIVE Thor™ centralized on-board computers to power its next-generation fleet.

Nvidia also announced that electric vehicle manufacturers Great Wall Motor (Great Wall Motor), ZEEKR and Xiaomi have adopted the Nvidia DRIVE Orin™ platform to power their intelligent autonomous driving systems.

"The transportation industry is adopting centralized computing to enable high automation and autonomous driving," said Xinzhou Wu, vice president of Nvidia's automotive business. "The AI vehicle computer of choice for today's smart fleet is NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, and automakers are increasingly looking to its successor, NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, for advanced features and AI performance for their future vehicle roadmaps."

DRIVE Thor is a next-generation centralized in-vehicle computer that integrates a wide range of intelligent capabilities into a single AI computing platform, providing autonomous driving and parking capabilities, driver and passenger monitoring, and AI cockpit capabilities.

Ideal Car currently uses two DRIVE Orin processors to power the AD Max, an assisted driving system in its L-Series models. These processors deliver 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS), enabling real-time fusion and processing of sensor information to power full-scene automated driving for Advanced Driver Assistance system (ADAS) navigation, full-scene assisted driving for lane Change Control (LCC), automatic parking, and automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) active safety features.

The new AD Max 3.0 upgrade transforms the system into an end-to-end algorithm architecture dominated by large AI models. It provides a safer and more comfortable intelligent driving experience through occupancy networking, spatio-temporal trajectory planning, and model predictive control algorithms.

Building the future of autonomous transportation

Great Wall Motor, China's leading new energy vehicle manufacturer, announced that it will build a self-developed high-end intelligent driving system "Coffee Leader" based on the DRIVE Orin centralized computing platform. Coffee Pilot can support parking, high-speed, urban scenarios, without high-precision maps to achieve full-scene intelligent navigation and assisted driving functions.

Great Wall Motor, which has partnered with Nvidia to develop the intelligent driving system, will launch its first model with the system in the first half of this year. Advanced intelligent driving features, such as autonomous city navigation and cross-layer memory parking, will first be rolled out on GWM's WEY models.

"The LLM-driven AI technology will profoundly enhance future mobility and the entire automotive industry," a Great Wall spokesperson said. "Great Wall Motor is committed to working with Nvidia and other industry leaders to provide greener and smarter mobility services for all."

Geely's premium electric vehicle subsidiary ZEEKR has launched the ZEEKR limousine, its fourth model powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin. It features a new full-stack intelligent driving system powered by two DRIVE Orin chip systems that provide intelligent parking and automated operation on high-speed and urban roads. The full range of ZEEKR models offers two sensor options: LiDAR + Vision Fusion and Pure Vision. The ZEEKR Navigator, a highway navigation function of ZEEKR's internal advanced driver assistance system, will be used in major Chinese cities once deliveries begin.

"ZEEKR is proud to partner with Nvidia on innovative, safe autonomous driving capabilities," said Qi Chen, vice president of ZEEKR. "The in-house developed ADAS system for the new ZEEKR limousine is enabled by the energy-efficient, high-performance NVIDIA DRIVE automotive computing platform."

Xiaomi EV, the tech giant's automotive arm, announced its first electric vehicle, the SU7 sedan, which features a dual-drive Orin configuration for highway driving functions. Using Xiaomi's leading large-scale language model to sense and make decisions, the sedan will be able to navigate Chinese cities seamlessly, regardless of geography, administrative divisions or road types. It will come in two versions: one with a range of 415 miles on a single charge and one with a range of 497 miles. The SU7 will be available in the first half of 2024.

Since 2022, DRIVE Orin has been in production with leading automakers, trucks, robo-taxis and shuttles, offering up to 254 TOPS and scaling to support Level 2+ to Level 5 autonomous driving capabilities.

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Source: NVDIA

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