Li Auto’s all models to come standard with autonomous driving system

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- The entire model series of Li Auto will come standard with driver assistance and autonomous driving systems, which encompass software, data service, map service, computing hardware and sensors, Li Xiang, CEO of Li Auto, recently said via his personal Weibo account.

He added these amenities will be standard to all models at any price range. The company will not charge consumers for either software activation or subscription.

Li ONE; photo credit: Li Auto

Li Xiang also noted Li Auto's in-house developed autonomous driving system will all be armed with the computing platform with 508 TOPS of computing power and LiDAR. He revealed the system can compete head-on with the counterparts from Huawei and Tesla next year.

Tesla's models currently carry the FSD (full self-driving) computer running at 144 TOPS, which has so far been the No.1 mass-produced autonomous driving platform in terms of computing power.

Huawei launched on April 18 the intelligent driving computing platform MDC810, which boasts up to 400 TOPS and the availability to many high-level autonomous driving scenarios like AVP (automatic valet parking).

Li Auto currently has only one model for sale, namely the Li ONE REEV (range-extended electric vehicle). Starting from 2022, the startup will launch at least two new products each year onward and expects to launch its first BEV model in 2023, Li Xiang, said in Feb. at the Q4 2020 earnings call.

Prices of the Li ONE range from 300,000 yuan ($46,160) to 350,000 yuan ($53,850). In the future, the company will make its product portfolio covering a wider price range from 150,000 yuan ($23,080) to 500,000 yuan ($76,930), according to Li.