China Automotive ReviewMay 2016 www.chinaautoreview.com Vol. 11 No. 5

Serving the World’s Largest Emerging Automobile Market中国汽车要闻

Tesla’s close competitor emerges

Volvo Cars to launch advanced autonomous driving experiment in China, seeks legislative support

Ford’s John Larsen: China will lead the world in sustainable mobility

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John Larsen continued on page 15

– by Lei Xing

BEIJING – Volvo Cars plans to launch China’s

most advanced autonomous driving experiment in which local drivers will test autonomous driving cars on public roads in everyday driving conditions, according to CEO Håkan Samuelsson.

Preview: new PV models at Auto China 2016

PP3-10– by CBU Staff

Auto China 2016, or the 14th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, will be held on April 25-May 4 in Beijing, featuring 1,179 vehicles (including 112 world premieres, 46 concepts and 147 new energy vehicles) on over 220,000 square meters of display space.

The following is a preview of some of the new domestically-made passenger vehicle models and concepts that will debut or launch at the show (listed alphabetically by make). – Editor

– by Jones Zhong

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LeEco, will be unveiled at the upcoming Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China 2016) on April 25.

A quick overview of LeEco’s steady milestones in developing the LeSEE based on the ecology chain of different business operations may alleviate the suspicions by many over the arrival of a real Super Car. SEEing is believing.

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– by Lei Xing

BEIJING – Can China leapfrog other countries to become a world leader in sustainable mobility?

The answer from Ford Asia Pacifi c Mobility Director John Larsen is yes.

“I personally think China will lead and there are many contributors to that,” said Larsen at a panel discussion held in Beijing on March 30 with a theme of Urbanization and Mobility: The Future of Our Cities.

One of those contributors, according to Larsen, is the fact that urbanization in China is much more organized and urban planning happens at a much greater level.

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continued from page 1Because of that influence, China is able to do and orchestrate things differently than elsewhere and has a very concerted effort to channel things and guide them. Larsen also believes China has an innovative environment where there are a lot of young people that see the world change in front of their eyes and want to be a part of the next change.

“China has a very innovative and entrepreneurial atmosphere that develops new concepts and new ideas, especially because the drivers of the mobility changes are extremely strong here,” said Larsen. “Because the pain points are so much more acute, they can innovate that much faster.”

Bill Russo, managing director of Shanghai-based consultancy Gao Feng Advisory Co., Ltd., who moderated the panel discussion, said that what is unique about China is that it has become an incubator for unique innovation and when it comes to urban mobility and sustainability, China is leading the rest of the world rather than following and emulating it.

“The mobility revolution happening in China is not being regulated,” said Russo. “The government has allowed it to flower and go by consumer preference, let the problems get solved by innovative companies like Didi and others. There will be a time to step back and say let’s put some guidelines in place and regulate the business, but the government is willing to invest, support and promote a made-in-China, scaled-up-in-China platform to solve urban mobility issues.”

Russo believes that the willingness on the part of the Chinese companies to open themselves up and collaborate with companies that bring capabilities is an entry point for companies like Ford to participate. The key challenge, however, is if the foreign companies are willing to play.

Larsen reiterated that in order to be successful on the path of transformation from a traditional carmaker to a mobility service provider, it needs to break down the boundaries in how it operates and collaborate with other players, but at the same time not trying to beat them at their own games.

“We are not going to out-didi Didi or out-uber Uber, they do things in a certain way and we won’t do it the same way,” said Larsen. “There can be great synergies and Ford is a great partner. We are

looking for those partnerships that we can find a lot of synergies in. You are doing good things, we can do some other things, let’s bring these together and do something much bigger.”

According to Larsen, of each of the opportunities in mobility solutions that Ford is pursuing, there is only one that he thinks Ford can do it on its own, while almost all of the rest it needs to work with outside providers that bring special capabilities.

One of those opportunities Ford is experimenting in the U.S. and also looking to bring to China is the so-called dynamic shuttle service. Larsen says it’s a middle point between traditional mass transit and individual ride hailing, but customers still receive customized personal experience of dynamical routing and smart algorithms while helping with congestion.

“It’s no longer just individual in one vehicle. It’s now the whole system how we connect the transportation systems in the roads and connecting with mass transit and other forms that we have the opportunity to better optimize and deliver the transport experience that people really want in better ways,” said Larsen, who believes that the changes that have taken place so far are still fundamentally the ride service to get somewhere but it’s getting to a level where it’s more important for inter connectivity and optimization of that to deliver a much better experience for people.

Larsen stressed, however, that transportation has been diverse and will continue to be diverse, rather than a “one size fits all.” “There is always going to be multiple forms of transportation. But if we can better coordinate these so that they can better fit the target audiences, that’s the next opportunity for innovation in the future, is solutions that fit different people in different situations,” said Larsen.

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Jiang Hai, associate professor of industrial engineering at Tsinghua University whose research focuses on modeling and optimization of transportation systems such as taxi-hailing apps, agreed with Larsen.

“We always want to emphasize that we want to integrate transportation systems,” said Jiang. “There is no single solution that fits all. We try to analyze how individuals choose between different transport modes and put that into planning models,”

“Public transit will play a big role in future mega cities,” said Kevin Mo, managing director, climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute based in Beijing, a “do” and a think tank that focuses on climate change and sustainable urbanization. “Public transit has become a national goal in the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan with a target to increase to 40 percent in large cities.” Mo said that people are also getting more environmentally conscious and the infrastructure is becoming more friendly for carpool and younger generation are more inclined to use it.

“Some of the most successful carpooling companies in China advocate the social aspect. It isn’t so much the money as someone that I want to talk to while driving to work,” added Larsen.

With respect to the issue of parking spaces, or the lack there of, Larsen does not see any point in policies that increase pain to control behaviors and would instead look for policies that stimulate better behaviors. “I’m all for ways to better communicate for parking and accurate systems of where there is parking. It’s a major pain point and a huge area of opportunity,” said Larsen. CBU/CARCBU/CAR

Volvo Cars to launch advanced autonomous driving experiment in China, seeks legislative supportcontinued from page 1

Samuelsson made the announcement at the 2016 Beijing Automotive Driving Panel Debate, which had a theme of Autonomous Driving, Could China Take the Lead, on April 7 in Beijing. The seminar was jointly organized by the Swedish carmaker, Ministry of Transport’s Highway Research Institute (RIOH) and China Academy of Telecommunications Research (CAICT).

“Autonomous driving can make a significant contribution to road safety. The sooner autonomous driving cars are on the roads, the sooner lives will start being saved,” said Samuelsson, whose company is pioneering the development of autonomous driving systems

as part of its commitment that no one will be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo by the year 2020.

The project, called Drive Me China, is expected to involve up to 100 cars and Volvo Cars will begin negotiations with interested cities in China in the coming months to see which is able to provide the necessary permissions, regulations and infrastructure to allow the experiment to go ahead.

While Samuelsson welcomed the positive steps China has taken to put in place to develop autonomous driving technologies, he urged the country to do more to try and speed up the implementation of the regulations that will oversee autonomous driving cars in future.

John Larsen: “China has a very innovative and entrepreneurial atmosphere that develops new concepts and new ideas, especially because the drivers of the mobility changes are extremely strong here, Because the pain points are so much more acute, they can innovate that much faster.”

From L to R: Bill Russo, Kevin Mo, John Larsen and Jiang Hai