Beijing (Gasgoo)- On April 15th, China’s tech giant Baidu formed a strategic partnership with VOYAH, the premium new energy vehicle brand of Dongfeng Motor, for automotive intelligence advancement.
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The partnership specifies that the two companies will primarily collaborate on intelligent driving, smart cockpit, intelligent driving simulation cloud, automotive safety, and intelligent maps. By virtue of each’s merits as a high-tech internet conglomerate or high-end new energy vehicle maker, Baidu and VOYAH aim to forge a valid technological alliance, exploring new commercialization opportunities for intelligent driving and intelligent V2X technologies. The duo plans to facilitate innovative business patterns and cooperation models as means to accelerate the premium auto brand development in China.
Currently, the country is promoting the internet and new energy principles on a macro level, Baidu and VOYAH’s cooperation sets an example for the domestic intelligent auto industry to fuse and innovate. By working with leading companies in different fields, both parties will benefit from working out a new thinking pattern and creating novel things.
In this case, VOYAH can put Baidu’s experience accumulations in the internet user mindset onto its products and operations. Meanwhile, Baidu can benefit from the rigorous thinking of the automaker under design and R&D scenarios.
