Volvo Cars, Zoox, SAIC and More Join Growing Range of Autonomous Vehicle Makers Using New NVIDIA DRIVE Solutions
April 12 2021 - 1:03PM
GTC --
Volvo, Zoox and SAIC
are among the growing ranks of leading transportation companies
using the newest NVIDIA DRIVE™ solutions to power their
next-generation AI-based autonomous vehicles, NVIDIA announced
today.
NVIDIA’s design-win pipeline for NVIDIA DRIVE now totals more
than $8 billion over the next six years, reflecting a growing range
of next-generation cars, trucks, robotaxis and new energy vehicles
(NEVs).
“Transportation is becoming a technology industry. Besides
having amazing autonomous driving and AI technologies, vehicles
will be programmable platforms to offer software-driven services.
The business models of transportation will be reinvented,” said
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our design wins
demonstrate how NVIDIA is partnering with one of the world’s
largest and most impactful industries to help revolutionize the
future of mobility.”
Volvo Cars and NVIDIA Extend CollaborationVolvo
Cars announced that it will build its next-generation models on
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™, extending the companies’ deep collaboration
over the last few years. The first car featuring DRIVE Orin
technology, the next-generation Volvo XC90, is planned to be
revealed next year.NVIDIA DRIVE Orin’s high-performance,
energy-efficient compute will work together with software developed
in-house by Volvo Cars and Zenseact (Volvo Cars’ autonomous driving
software development company), an advanced sensor suite that
includes lidar as well as steering and braking backup systems. As a
result, the Swedish automaker’s fleet of intelligent vehicles will
be safer, more personal and sustainable — along with being richly
programmable and perpetually upgradable via over-the-air software
updates designed to make Volvo Cars’ next-gen vehicles better every
day. Read more about Volvo Cars’ announcement.
Robotaxis Turn to DRIVE
The world is moving trillions of miles a year, and more and more
of these miles are being delivered as a service, thanks to the
robotaxi companies developing on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform.
Zoox recently unveiled its purpose-built robotaxi designed for
everyday urban mobility. The vehicle is powered by NVIDIA DRIVE and
is one of the first robotaxis featuring bi-directional
capabilities, putting the next generation of intelligent
transportation into motion.
DiDi, China’s leading mobility-as-a-service provider, has also
announced it is adopting NVIDIA DRIVE for its entire autonomous
driving test fleet. These robotaxi companies join others already
developing on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform, including Pony.ai and Auto
X.
Read more about some of these robotaxi leaders using NVIDIA
DRIVE.
Sparking the NEV RevolutionAdditionally, a
growing number of automotive startups and EV brands have in recent
months announced plans to build software-defined vehicles using
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to deliver continuously improving AI
capabilities, beginning as early as next year. They include:
- SAIC, China’s largest automaker, which is readying two new EV
brands packed with advanced AI features. The R Auto family of
next-gen vehicles will feature the R-Tech advanced intelligent
assistant, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, to run perception, sensor
fusion and prediction for automated driving features in real time.
Its ultra-premium IM brand — a joint venture with Alibaba — will
deliver long-range EVs powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, including a
sedan and SUV with autonomous parking and other automated driving
features. Orders are starting now for the sedan, with the SUV
following in 2022.
- Faraday Future, a global intelligent mobility company, which is
using NVIDIA DRIVE Orin in its flagship ultra-luxury FF 91 EV
to achieve advanced highway autonomous driving capabilities and
advanced parking and summon features when it goes on sale in 2022.
Its next-generation FF 71 and FF 81 vehicles, which will
be available in 2023 and 2024, respectively, will also be powered
by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin.
- Vietnam’s leading automaker, VinFast, which is starting mass
production of its VF e34, VF e35 and VF e36 intelligent EVs with
level 2-3 autonomous capabilities. It plans to upgrade these
premium EV models from NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier™ to NVIDIA DRIVE
Orin.
- Nio, which has announced that its ET7 sedan will offer advanced
automated driving capabilities featuring a supercomputer, dubbed
Adam, powered by four NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoCs totaling 1,000 TOPS.
The ET7 will start to ship in China in 2022.
- Li Auto, which is developing next-gen EVs using NVIDIA DRIVE
Orin with plans to ship in 2022. The China carmaker’s new EVs are
being developed in collaboration with tier-1 supplier Desay SV and
feature advanced autonomous driving features and an extended
battery range.
- Xpeng, which is already putting its advanced driving technology
on the road with the P7 sedan. Last month, the automaker completed
a record-setting, six-day cross-country autonomous drive with a
fleet of P7 vehicles powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier. Xpeng plans to
upgrade to NVIDIA DRIVE Orin in 2022.
Read more about the new generation of electric vehicles built on
NVIDIA DRIVE.
Trucks to Hit the Road with NVIDIA DRIVEThe
trucking industry is plagued by a severe driver shortage amid
growing demand for e-commerce goods. The NVIDIA DRIVE platform
helps deliver safe, fully autonomous trucks that can operate in
geo-fenced areas, public roads and highways.
Navistar is partnering with TuSimple to build self-driving
trucks designed from the ground up for level 4 autonomous
operation, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE. The U.S. maker’s intelligent
trucks are targeted for production by 2024.
China’s largest truck maker, FAW, is working with Plus to
develop autonomous trucks on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. These
trucks will start production later this year and will upgrade to
Orin in 2022.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions, part of Volvo Group, is also using
the end-to-end NVIDIA DRIVE platform for the development of
autonomous transport solutions and next-generation level 4
trucks.
For more information on these and other GTC announcements,
Huang’s keynote address is available for on-demand streaming.
About NVIDIANVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and
has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing
and artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering work in
accelerated computing and AI is reshaping trillion-dollar
industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing,
and fueling the growth of many others. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Marie
LabrieAutomotive PR ManagerNVIDIA
Corporation+1-408-921-6987mlabrie@nvidia.com
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orders for NVIDIA DRIVE; the car industry becoming a technology
industry, where vehicles will be completely programmable computers
and business models will be reinvented; vehicles having autonomous
driving and AI technologies; NVIDIA’s design wins demonstrating how
it is partnering with an industry that will revolutionize the
future of mobility; the impact and benefits of the NVIDIA DRIVE
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