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On May 28, BYD launched its “Dare to Be” intelligent strategy, which taps into their deep vertical integration. BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu stated, “The first half of electrification is all about batteries, while the second half of intelligentization is all about chips.” At the event, BYD unveiled China’s first 4nm intelligent driving chip, the Xuanji A3, which it sees as accelerating the “intelligentization” of the company.
Currently, BYD believes that their intelligent driving capabilities will comprehensively surpass human driving capabilities on the way toward zero accidents. Not only is BYD rolling out intelligent driving to their cars, but also to buses and commercial vehicles.
“God’s Eye” A (3 LiDAR), B (1 LiDAR) and C (just cameras and radar) combine with their latest 5.0 version of intelligent driving software. However, City Navigation has only been offered on their LiDAR equipped models, which have tended to be more premium. At the conference, BYD announced that they would offer LiDAR across every vehicle on their lineup, ordered as a 12,000 RMB ($1770 USD) option on vehicles that do not include it standard.
