On January 30, Xpeng Motors announced at its headquarters in Guangzhou that it would launch a social solicitation activity with the theme of "Xpeng True Intelligent Driving, Easy to Use Nationwide" during the Spring Festival.
At this press conference, He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of Xpeng Motors, delivered a speech, once again demonstrating the strongest intelligent driving capability of the XNGP intelligent driving assistance system in mass production. Xpeng said that in 2024, XNGP will achieve full coverage of the road network in major cities across the country, and will start developing high-speed NGP for the world and XNGP for the world in 2025. At the same time, Xpeng officially launched the 2024 Xpeng True Smart Driving National Easy to Use theme solicitation activity. During the event, Xpeng Motors cooperated with major stores across the country to launch a smart driving experience, and selected high-quality content shared by participants to promote, covering multiple platforms such as Douyin and Weibo, and finally selected lucky users to give away rich rewards.
Ten years of sharpening a sword
In 2019, based on its first product, Xpeng G3, Xpeng Motors created a precedent in the industry to realize full-scene intelligent parking through visual perception and ultrasonic fusion, solving the problem of "parking difficulty" with Chinese characteristics.
In 2020, the "all-scene voice" function will be released, providing convenient in-vehicle interaction with "moving the mouth without hands", so that almost all application ecology and functions on the car can be solved by calling "Hello, Little P". At the same time, the world's first continuous dialogue function allows users to say multiple instructions at a time or interrupt the next step at any time, which is closer to people's daily communication and greatly improves the interaction efficiency.
On the 1024 Science and Technology Day of the same year, high-speed NGP intelligent navigation assisted driving welcomed the open test drive for the first time, and added traffic cone recognition and avoidance, large truck avoidance, night overtaking reminder, fault vehicle avoidance, and super following on congested roads on basic scenarios such as automatic overtaking of slow cars, automatic speed limit adjustment, and priority lane selection, etc., which are more suitable for China's road conditions.
In 2021, Xpeng launched the world's first mass-produced smart car equipped with LiDAR, the Xpeng P5, and officially released the first mass-produced "last mile" parking function that does not rely on parking lot renovation - VPA parking lot memory parking, which expands the intelligent parking experience from parking spaces to parking lots.
From September 17, 2022, the city NGP began to be piloted in Guangzhou, and the full-stack self-developed Xpeng Motors became the first car brand to enable the mass production of high-end intelligent assisted driving in urban scenarios. In the same year, Xpeng Motors released the XNGP intelligent driving assistance system, which introduced the BEV + Transformer architecture for the first time with a significant increase in software and hardware capabilities, and took the lead in mass production in 2023.
In April 2023, Xpeng Motors announced SEPA 20 Fuyao Global Intelligent Evolution Architecture; In June of the same year, Xpeng Motors announced the official opening of urban NGP in Beijing, becoming the first high-level intelligent assisted driving in the industry to be opened in Beijing. In November, the XNGP industry was the first to fully open the mapless city navigation assisted driving function; On January 1, 2024, Xpeng's XNGP intelligent driving assistance system will cover 191 cities on the basis of the 52 cities that have been fully released, with a total of 243 cities, continuing to become the industry's No. 1 automobile brand in the total number of cities open to driving.
About the future
Since the release of the XNGP intelligent assisted driving system, Xpeng Motors has continued to improve the speed of "Kaicheng", and continues to provide users with the best intelligent driving experience in China with the core goal of being available in all areas and becoming more and more easy to use. At present, the navigation assistance driving capability of the XNGP system covers the national highway network, and 21 provinces (including municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions, 9 provincial capitals, 150 prefecture-level cities, 81 county-level cities, a total of 243 cities, has covered 90% of the cities where the MAX version owners are located, and the available mileage is 56.).90,000 km. This not only marks the rapid growth of the Xpeng team's mapless ability, but also shows the rapid improvement of its city-opening efficiency, compared with the map-based solution based on high-precision maps, the speed of XNGP map-free driving is increased by 384 times, and the fastest time to open a city is 1-2 days. He Xiaopeng said that the current AI R&D data operation team of Xpeng Motors with autonomous driving as the core has reached 3,000+ people, with an annual R&D investment of 3.5 billion, and will aim to be able to use it in all domains, reduce costs on a large scale, and improve capabilities to make intelligent driving safer, easier, and more efficient. In 2024, XNGP will achieve full coverage of the road network in major cities across the country, and start developing high-speed NGP for the world, and start developing XNGP for the world in 2025.
Intelligent driving safety is the "bottom line" of Xpeng Intelligent Driving, but it is also the top priority of the R&D team. Before all intelligent driving functions are launched, the Xpeng intelligent driving team will conduct rigorous engineering testing and verification, and the current XNGP has completed road verification and measured a mileage of 3.7 million+ kilometers (including high-speed). In addition, the R&D team will also conduct end-to-end verification for each line of changes and model upgrades. At present, the cumulative mileage has exceeded 1500 million kilometers, including 16,000+ core simulation scenarios and 40,000+ special simulation scenarios. With the continuous efforts of "sticking to the bottom line", in 2023, the average accident rate per million kilometers of Xpeng car owners will be about one-tenth of that of manual driving, which greatly improves driving safety.
At the same time, the continuous iteration of intelligent driving has also quickly brought about a "more and more user-friendly" user experience. Taking the high-speed scenario as an example, since the launch of the new generation of high-speed NGP, the number of passive takeovers per 1,000 kilometers is only 05 times, the average speed of the passage is increased by 13% compared with the previous generation version, which has brought a great improvement in both ease of use and traffic efficiency. XNGP City Test Drive Although it was launched not long ago, it was launched from XMART OS 44.Version 0 is beta tested to XMART OS 45.0 full release, in 70 days, the R&D team has accumulated 271 internal iterations, with an average of 3The 87 version quickly solves all kinds of problems with super rapid growth. He Xiaopeng said that in the future, the takeover rate of XNGP is expected to be further reduced, and the goal is to achieve less than 1 passive takeover per 1,000 kilometers in the core area, improve traffic efficiency, make the efficiency of intelligent driving infinitely close to human driving, and improve the processing ability of XNGP in various abnormal traffic scenarios, so that the use experience of intelligent driving has been greatly improved. In the next step, Xpeng Motors will realize the full on-board of the end-to-end large model, and the travel experience in the core area will be benchmarked against Waymo.
Intelligent driving, which is available in all areas and is getting easier and easier to use, of course, users will love to use it more. In 2023, the user penetration rate of Xpeng users for high-speed intelligent driving will be 947%, and the user penetration rate of urban smart driving is 832%, the average weekly user penetration rate of XNGP is 71%, and the average weekly mileage penetration rate is 40% (including high-speed and urban scenarios), which fully shows that high-level intelligent driving has become an indispensable way and habit for Xpeng users to travel. In September 2023, Xpeng launched the G6 million kilometers of intelligent driving journey, and with the active participation of G6 car owners, it won the Guinness World Record - "the most intelligent driving promotion activities participated by car owners in one month". This is the first time in China to create a successful Guinness World Record in the form of intelligent driving by real car owners on a single model. In the end, 7,830 G6 car owners participated in the event, clocked in 274 cities across the country, with a total mileage of 37,137,480 kilometers and a total mileage of 10,145,845 kilometers, which is equivalent to 253 laps around the earth.
Xiaopeng Motors provides us with a more intimate configuration with a kind of "programmer-style romance", in terms of driving assistance functions, intelligent interaction, battery life, etc., it always stands at the level of "solving problems" as the starting point, analyzing the needs of users, promoting advanced technology, and knocking down the first; This has also made Xiaopeng Motors an overnight success and a heart-warming journey for the New Year.