Shanghai (ZXZC)- Chery now is mulling an intelligent strategy coded "Lion", covering such five areas as autonomous driving, connected vehicle, mobility service and intelligent manufacturing, according to insiders from Chery. The new strategy will be released in the near future.

It is noteworthy that the artificial intelligent voice system co-developed by iFLYTEK and Baidu Big Data will be deployed in the Chery Tiggo 8, which will start presale soon, according to the insiders. In addition, Desay SV's onboard instrument, Neusoft's connected vehicle platform and mainframe will also be mounted in the model.

Chery set foot in intelligent vehicle and autonomous driving sectors very early. It had built up an intelligent vehicle division, which will develop intelligent products and build brands covering such four business modules as intelligent vehicle, intelligent connected vehicle & autonomous driving, digitalized operating and mobility service. Besides, Chery also formulates intelligent vehicle strategy to push its overall plan.

In the area of intelligent vehicle, Chery had shown off its intelligent and connected vehicle idea on its first-gen @Ant concept as early as at Auto China 2012. Moreover, the Cloudrive system was also updated to the 3.0 version, which was deployed in the Tiggo 5X released in 2017. 

In autonomous driving field, Chery had developed the first-gen autonomous vehicle Arrizo 7 in 2014, the second-gen electric eQ driverless car in 2016 and finished the development of the third-gen autonomous driving vehicle in 2017. According to its plan, Chery is ambitious to achieve mass production of the vehicles equipped with L0/L1/L2 advanced driver assistance system. Additionally, the vehicles equipped with L3 autonomous driving features will be mass-produced in 2020. 

Noticeably, Chery had established close partnership with Baidu, iFLYTEK, Neusoft, Unicom, NVIDIA and Desay SV. It gained some achievements via integrating the technologies and resources of all industrial chains into the open ecology. 

Temporarily, although the details of Chery's "Lion" intelligent strategy were not very clear, the only confirmed thing is that Chery will explore further in intelligent, autonomous and connected vehicle areas.