The scale of a single project continues to expand, which proves that the industry is becoming more and more mature.
Text: Low-speed unmanned editorial department
Low-speed unmanned driving focuses on ports, mining areas, parks, scenic spots, sanitation, logistics, security and other functional scenarios, with the continuous increase in support in recent years, the continuous optimization of enterprise technology and products, low-speed unmanned vehicles have gradually gained more recognition from scene users, the project scale has increased from a few to dozens, and even a single project scale of hundreds of units, leading enterprises have created one after another landing application benchmark projects to further promote industrial development. At the same time, some strategic contracts of hundreds to thousands of units also confirm the maturity of the industry.
Easy control intelligent driving: Xinjiang Tianchi Energy South Open-pit Coal Mine - 203 unmanned mining vehicles
Founded in 2018, Econ is committed to providing driverless technology and transportation operation services for mining areas. In November 2020, Yikong Zhijia and Tianchi Energy South Open-pit Coal Mine officially launched the cooperation project, and in June 2021, the project took the lead in realizing the normalized operation of double marshalling; In December 2022, the first multi-marshalling normal operation of safety officers was completed. In March 2023, Tianchi Energy South Open-pit Mine was the first batch of coal mines in China and the first coal mine in Xinjiang to pass the acceptance of intelligent demonstration coal mines, among which the technical level and production efficiency of unmanned driving have reached the intermediate level stipulated in the national intelligent acceptance standards for open-pit coal mines.
At the beginning of October 2023, the scale of the unmanned fleet of Yikong Intelligent Driving in Tianchi Energy South Open-pit Coal Mine has reached 203 vehicles, which is the largest unmanned project of single mining vehicles in China, surpassing the record of 108 vehicles in a single mine of FMG Chichester to become the new global first. By the end of 2023, a total of 392 unmanned mining vehicles have been launched across the country, with a cumulative mileage of 6.12 million kilometers.
Westwell Technology: Port Felisdo, UK - 100 unmanned container trucks
Founded in 2015, the company is committed to activating the potential of multiple industries with artificial intelligence and becoming a pioneer in the global intelligent service industry, with products and services that have landed in 18 countries and regions around the world, serving more than 160 customers. In the field of port unmanned driving, Westwell Technology is the world's leading solution provider, and the full-time unmanned new energy commercial vehicle Q-Truck developed and designed by Forward Development has been commercialized in Hutchison Port Laem Chabang Port in Thailand, COSCO Shipping Abu Dhabi Khalifa Port, Port Felixdo in the United Kingdom, and Veracruz Port in Mexico.
In June 2023, Westwell Technology and Felixstowe of Port Felixstowe of Hutchison Port officially signed an agreement to add 100 new energy intelligent driverless trucks Q-Truck, and the two parties will build the largest "cabless" new energy driverless commercial fleet so far in Felixstowe of Port Felixstowe, and deploy green and intelligent energy battery swap services, which is also the largest new contract project of unmanned container trucks in ports publicly reported by the industry. In October 2023, the first 12 Q-trucks arrived at the port, and the rest are arriving in batches.
Kuwa Technology: Sanitation and cleaning services in Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City - more than 100 unmanned sanitation vehicles
Founded in 2015, the company has three major capabilities: R&D and manufacturing of high-level autonomous driving special vehicles, R&D and system manufacturing of full-stack autonomous driving algorithms, and high-end urban operation services based on intelligent networking. It has three major brands: "Kuwa Environment", "Kuwang Urban Distribution" and "Little Cool Run", which correspond to the three major fields of municipal sanitation, urban distribution logistics and urban travel.
In November 2023, the bidding results of the environmental sanitation and cleaning marketization service in Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City were made public, and Kuwa Technology won the bid, with a winning bid amount of about 5$8.6 billion for 3 years. According to the "3+1+1+1 year" service model, the total amount of overall project performance is as high as 117.2 billion yuan. In terms of the configuration of environmental sanitation equipment for the project, it is clearly required to invest in autonomous vehicles such as new energy sweeping robots. It is reported that Kuwa Technology has landed more than 100 self-driving sanitation vehicles in Taizhou City.
Yiqing Innovation Zhenhua Heavy Industry: Guangzhou Nansha Port Phase IV Terminal - 170 units of i**
In July 2022, the fourth phase of Guangzhou Nansha Port was put into operation, which is the first newly built automated terminal in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a fully automated terminal for river-sea-rail multimodal transport, with four berths for 100,000-ton sea vessels and supporting container barge berths. The designed annual throughput capacity of the terminal is 4.9 million TEUs, of which about 1.9 million TEUs are transported by rivers. More than 70 i** units were introduced in the first phase of the terminal automation project, which will increase to 120 units in 2023 and will continue to increase to 170 units this year.
The I** car body put into use at the fourth phase of Nansha Port Wharf is powered by Zhenhua Heavy Industries, which creatively adopts Beidou satellite navigation and positioning, LiDAR SLAM, visual SLAM and multi-sensor fusion positioning technology. The i** fleet navigation system solution is provided by Yiqing Innovation, and the control system and dispatching system solutions are provided by Zhenhua Heavy Industries, which realizes the accurate docking of port machinery equipment in complex scenarios at the terminal, and is suitable for 24-hour weather operations.
Sinian Intelligent Driving: Daxing Logistics - 122 unmanned transport vehicles
Founded in 2020, Sinian Zhijia is a scenario logistics driverless solution provider, covering ports, bulk cargo distribution centers, logistics parks and inter-field barges. In July 2023, Sinian Zhijia announced that it had signed an order for 122 L4 driverless transport vehicles with Daxing Logistics in cooperation with China National Heavy Duty Truck and Weichai Zhike, and delivered the first batch of the first batch of driverless container trucks and unmanned dump trucks.
It is reported that this batch of unmanned transport vehicles by China National Heavy Duty Truck and Huaichai Zhike are responsible for the vehicle chassis wire control, charging devices and other hardware work, Sinian Zhijia is responsible for unmanned transportation of single vehicle intelligence and cloud scheduling system construction and other informatization and unmanned work. The delivery vehicles will be used in logistics parks and ports covered by Daxing Logistics' business to carry out logistics and transportation tasks of containers and dry bulk cargo.
Mingyang Mining: Strategic cooperation with 500 1000 unmanned mining vehicles
In October 2023, Yikong Zhijia reached a strategic cooperation with Xinjiang Mingyang Mining, Shaanxi Tongli Heavy Industry and Haitong Hengxin in Changji, Xinjiang, and the four parties will actively respond to the policy call to deepen cooperation in vehicle research and development, unmanned driving applications, market expansion and other aspects, jointly promote the development and implementation of new energy and unmanned technology, help the intelligent construction of mines, and realize the "safe, intelligent, efficient and green" production of mines.
Mingyang Mining will give full play to its advantages in engineering management to provide more specific application scenarios for unmanned batch landing, and the two sides will successively launch 500 1000 new energy wire-controlled mining trucks in the Xinjiang mining market in the future.
LGMG Heavy Machinery: Strategic cooperation with 1,000 unmanned mining vehicles
In January this year, the two sides will focus on key links such as technology research and development, product application, and market cooperation, to create value for customers more effectively, and jointly deploy thousands of unmanned mining vehicles through the construction of a new pattern of cross-field, interdisciplinary and cross-regional industrial collaboration, so as to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the unmanned transportation industry in the mining area from the perspective of safety, green, efficiency and economy.