I believe everyone knows what the global economic situation has been in the past year; Everyone knows how far the domestic auto market has been involved ......
In the face of such a situation, the world's leading auto parts and technical solutions company Bosch (Bosch) has done a lot"Big deals"And it will be unveiled at this Smart Mobility Innovation Experience Day!
Bosch only empowers car manufacturers.
I believe that friends who are a little concerned about the auto parts industry may know that something happened to Bosch in 2023, first of all, Dr. Chen Yudong, who was originally the president of Bosch (China) Investment, retired and stepped down, and secondly, the Bosch Group in Germany announced a layoff plan until 2025.
Because of this, in this case"Shaping a new era of intelligent mobility"At the Smart Mobility Innovation Experience Day, Dr. Xu Daquan, who took over as President of Bosch (China), and the layoffs abroad attracted special attention from the participants. But in fact, we don't have to worry about it, because the official response on the spot: foreign layoffs have nothing to do with Bosch's development process in China!
But the real big thing is that Bosch has undergone a large-scale organizational restructuring: from January 1, 2024, the Bosch Automotive & Transportation Technology business will be officially renamed"Bosch Smart Mobility Group"。The new business unit and branch structure includes: e-bike systems, electric drive systems, intelligent mobility after-sales, automotive electronics, power systems, intelligent vehicle motion control systems, intelligent driving and control systems, Bosch Engineering (including commercial vehicles and off-highway systems, Keguangrui Engineering Technology), ETAS, two-wheelers and sports vehicles, vehicle platforms and services, and vehicle software services.
At the same time, the Board of Directors of Bosch Smart Mobility Group China was formally established to oversee the management of relevant business units and teams in China, and Mr. Wang Weiliang, who previously worked in Bosch Powertrain Division, was appointed as the President of the Board of Directors of Bosch Smart Mobility Group China.
This is a milestone in Bosch's 100-year history of business restructuring, and I personally think that it has been a clue since Bosch announced that it would abandon the development ......of lidar in September last yearIn response to the transformation of the global automotive market, Bosch seems to be subtracting and integrating, and instead focusing on creating cross-domain solutions more efficiently to serve existing and new customer needs more quickly and flexibly.
This is just as Wang Weiliang said"Bosch will further take root in China and help China's automotive industry create a new era of intelligent mobility with innovative and intelligent solutions and services. "
Since 2014, Bosch has held it almost every year"Innovation Experience Day"This year's 9th Intelligent Travel Innovation Experience Day was held at the SAIC-GM R&D and Test Center in Guangde, Anhui Province.
On the morning of the event, the forum session, the newly appointed Wang Weiliang said a lot, if you want to excerpt the key points like Caijing**, I will choose what he said:"Although Bosch has been considered by everyone to be the champion of auto parts manufacturers, we always insist that we will never build a car, Bosch can never become a competitor of the car factory, and Bosch only empowers technology for the best. That's why all OEMs around the world trust Bosch. "
Why this paragraph? What's the point? Hey! Compared with a domestic mobile phone automotive technology solution company, it is clear or dark that it has actually participated in the creation of cars, and everyone knows it!
As for what I personally think is more important, it is Wang Weiliang's transformation of Bosch's business and the full-stack technical structure of the future automotive industry"Five vertical and nine horizontal"Analysis: five business blocks (domains), nine technology-to-market levels.
The five business areas are Intelligent Driving Assistance, Sports Intelligent Control, Energy & Power, Body & Comfort, and Infotainment. The nine levels are from the underlying intelligent hardware to semiconductor sensors, to embedded electronic control units, to computing units, operating systems, application software, operating system back-end interfaces, services, and then to commercial solutions. In other words, Bosch has defined a clear direction for the next 20 years!
At the forum, Wang Weiliang also introduced the important members of the board of directors of Bosch Intelligent Mobility Group China, including Zhang Ying, who is responsible for customers and sales, and is also the president of the Vehicle Motion Intelligent Control System Business Unit in China; Stephan Lampel, who is responsible for logistics, finance, and other related matters; Norman Roth as COO. The Bosch Smart Mobility Group currently has more than 35,000 employees and 24 production sites in China.
It's time to play. All right! A lot has been said about Bosch"A sea change"Of course, it is to experience Bosch's local innovative technology experience projects for future electrification and intelligent mobility, including vehicle motion intelligent control system, parking software solution, independent thermal management system, and electric drive system.
But let's start with one of the simplest and closest experience items to the needs of the public: water spray wipers and brushless wiper motors. After a careful look at the scene, it was found that Bosch's sprinkler wipers are different from the kind of wipers with sprinkler heads that can be bought in the market, it is designed with a rubber hose with many small holes next to the wiper strip, and when spraying water, it will only spray towards the front windshield and the strip, so when it is activated, it is not like the general sprinkler to see the spray column, and then the glass is particularly clean and the sight is particularly clear after the wiper brushes. This kind of good thing that can not only reduce the wear of wiper strips, reduce the amount of wiper water, but also make the driving vision clearer, regardless of whether the car manufacturer wants to choose it or not, it is recommended that Bosch put it on its own auto parts, I will definitely buy it!
As for the brushless wiper motor, as the name suggests, it is a carbonless brushless motor, and the on-site comparison shows that its running sound is much smaller than that of the traditional brushed wiper motor, and there is no hidden danger of carbon brush wear, praise! From here, I also learned that in fact, as the world's largest auto parts manufacturer, Bosch is not only actively developing high-precision technology, but also pursuing perfection for many basic components. Who said that there is no room for improvement in the taste of jajangmyeon that looks unpretentious?
There are many other experience projects, first of all, the new vehicle motion intelligent control system developed by the Bosch local team, including the Comfort Braking 20. Intelligent decoupling braking system 20. Extreme version of vehicle dynamic control 20 steer-by-wire ......Experience programs such as the old driver's parking technique that can make the vehicle barely nod when braking, the body does not slip when walking to a slippery field with different friction coefficients on the road, or making the cornering control of a large car accurate and flexible, Bosch's always powerful chassis control technology can do it.
But I specifically asked the on-site staff, these technologies were basically available before"2.0"What's the difference? The other party told me:"2.The 0 difference opens up a whole new ecosystem, including new approaches to development, system integration, and services, flexible deployment, and an open architecture that supports the integration of third-party actuators. To put it bluntly, it provides more space for customization for car manufacturers, and the flexibility to quickly adapt to market demand and calibrate chassis functions and characteristics is higher! "
The debut of the Bosch Intelligent Cornering Assist System, which is demonstrated on the Leopard 5 and is equipped with an Equation Leopard 5 system, which uses sensor signals such as wheel speed, yaw angular velocity, and acceleration to apply braking and driving force in different directions to the four wheels of the vehicle, thereby generating a yaw that is conducive to the driver's steering in the desired direction and reducing the turning radius.
In addition, there are a number of parking software solutions developed by Bosch's local team, including on-site experience such as dead-end road parking, narrow parking parking, three-dimensional parking space parking, ......and other scenarios, the experience car is indeed very smart and efficient.
Importantly, thanks to Bosch's more than 10 years of experience in mass production in the field of parking systems, the software solution can be flexibly deployed on chips from different manufacturers and adapted to third-party sensor systems. In addition, the model of this solution is trained based on Chinese parking scenarios, which can facilitate car manufacturers to optimize parking functions in multiple scenarios, including more accurate identification of obstacle height and positioning of side obstacles.
The new third-generation multi-function camera evo version led by the local team was also unveiled for the first time at the event, and the test drive based on Xingtu Yaoguang demonstrated the strength of the monocular camera to judge various obstacles at a distance of 190 meters. What is especially surprising is that according to the engineers, they only use a 2 million pixel camera, which is simply too awesome, you must know that the current general 1 million pixel monocular camera can handle tens of meters of image is normal, 4 million pixels correspond to 120 160 meters is advanced!
Bosch was able to do this because of the ...... of computing power and softwareThe upgrade of the perception algorithm based on deep learning greatly improves the distance and accuracy of target and lane line recognition, and effectively improves the recognition ability of special-shaped vehicles, two-wheeled vehicles, tunnel entrances and exits, bad weather and other scenarios.
In fact, I want to know more about the night recognition ability of this set of image processing, if it also has superb performance in the dark, coupled with a charming enough cost**, I believe the car factory will like it very much!
In addition, the SAIC Maxus Territory experience car on display attracted my interest, although this car does not provide a dynamic experience, but it shows the most advanced Bosch ETAS"Ladders"But it's very interesting......
Ladders"It is a digital R&D support platform, which can be called the most important development tool for software-defined vehicles. Seeing it on the spot, it can help the car factory, the testing agency ......Remote vehicle testing and calibration, that is to say, the driver can drive anywhere, and the engineer can sit in the office and connect the line for vehicle calibration, which fully saves the cost of human travel and improves the efficiency of vehicle testing and calibration.
How is this different from the car brushing process in the market? See, Bosch is powerful because they have rich experience and technical resources in cooperation with car manufacturers, and the online data in the database, scene library, and algorithm library can help engineers calibrate vehicles more easily, and even help customers achieve fast and efficient software development and function expansion.
The height of the heroes behind the scenes.
In addition to the above, Bosch also showed off the CVT transmission for electric cars that can withstand the maximum torque of 600Nm, and the actual experience found that it can reduce the motor speed of the vehicle from the original 15000rpm to around 6000rpm at a speed of 140kmh, which is undoubtedly a good way to save electricity for the tram!
Things are so good, why aren't there many car factories that use them? The answer is cost! However, it is believed that as long as Bosch promotes more, the cost of installing CVT transmissions in the future should be covered by the money saved by replacing smaller motors and batteries, and even in exchange for more profits.
There are a lot of experience projects at the event site, and it is impossible to understand and experience them one by one. But in terms of the content that has been experienced, I think that although Bosch does not talk about a bunch of technologies like many car manufacturers at present, in fact, they are indeed the real leaders of automotive technology, whether it is to optimize the existing technology or create new technologies for the future, but as Wang Weiliang said, Bosch's role is always the enabler of the world, and the heroes behind the scenes can be powerful but do not need to make a big noise.
Wang Weiliang, President of the Board of Directors of Bosch Intelligent Mobility Group China, also said:"We will continue to deepen our local presence in key technology fields such as electric drives, hydrogen fuel cells, new braking systems, semiconductors, software, and on-board computers, and provide customers with more competitive and valuable technologies and services to support the intelligent and sustainable development of China's automotive industry. "
This is the height of the hero behind the scenes ......