In Apr. 2019, SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) officially launched its new brand, New Baojun, inheriting the “Young, Hi-tech, Intelligent and Connected” DNA. In Sep., RC-6 and RM-5, the first two models of New Baojun, were officially launched. New Baojun joins hands with PATEO to unprecedentedly get the smartphone and the intelligent vehicle (IV) fully connected. This portable IoV technology leverages the computing power of the mobile phone, including the AI chip, combined with all scenarios inside and outside the vehicle, to extend the connection between the user and the vehicle from 2 hours to 24 hours. By gaining access to the phone’s underlying capabilities such as virtual click and screen wakeup and taking advantage of the phone’s abundant eco capabilities, an all-inclusive ecosystem with a full range of applications has come true. This is the fastest IoV in history that puts an IV into the user's pocket and deeply embeds the smartphone capabilities into the vehicle to keep the IoV hardware always up to date.

The Qing Mobile IoV system connects the user's mobile phone with the car by installing the PATEO OS cloud on the former. What’s different from the smartphone mirroring systems such as the Apple CarPlay is that the system is able to fully load the cell phone app ecosystem that the user is accustomed to into the car, including WeChat, map navigation and video software. This means that the Internet application ecosystem that the user installs on the car no longer needs to be separated from the cell phone app ecosystem that they are used to. The evolved version of the AI 2.0 is optimized to address the six major problems with the current IVI system, i.e., being overly polite, being mechanical, being dilatory, being retarded, requiring shouting and bad hearing, so that it is able to support the global wakeup free feature & at-will interruption in main interaction scenarios, meet the requirement for lengthy voice content input by fast-speaking users, memorize and quickly match frequent contacts, complete multiple-step input during one round of interaction, pick up soft sound and surpass the human ear in noisy environment, etc.

As the earliest IoV enterprise founded in 2009, PATEO has always positioned itself as a connector between internet and automobile and a company empowering traditional vehicles who, based on its own vehicle infrastructure, auto electronics, communications, software, cloud and operation services, starts from the product/platform ideas and works with tens of millions of active users to create new products and business models that are able to cover mainstream vehicle models in the future, and are to be shared with automakers and the entire industrial chain. As one of PATEO’s core departments, the HMI team has a galaxy of excellent design talents, enthusiastic about the IVI industry, focusing on the HMI design for the IVI and intelligent cockpit, demonstrating strong capabilities in user research and market analysis, able to accurately grasp the trends and market positioning of the IVI products, equipped with more than 10 years of rich experience in IVI design, and boasting strength in multi-platform & cross domain design. The team has now grown into one of the important forces in Chinese domestic automotive HMI design field, providing comprehensive design solutions for major OEMs.

“Insight • Innovation • Integration” is the DNA of PATEO. PATEO believes that the future will usher in an era for value creation, value sharing, and integration rather than disruption. Especially in the IoV field, no single automaker, parts supplier, IoV enterprise, AI or Internet company is able to complete the overall planning and arrangement alone. Therefore, PATEO has been actively seeking open in-depth cooperation with traditional auto groups, Internet companies and up-/downstream enterprises on the entire industry chain. PATEO is willing to establish deep cooperation with all IoV companies based on the advantageous resources of both sides, and help each individual link on the IoV industry chain achieve better business integration and implementation results based on their respective positioning, to finally ensure that the IoV companies will reach the business targets shared with automakers; PATEO is also willing to conduct, in any form and model, in-depth business cooperation with Internet giants, to help them accomplish the core user, revenue, scenario and data targets.

The Strategy for Innovation & Development of Intelligent Vehicles (Draft for Comments) released by National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) of the PRC proposes that by 2020, intelligent vehicles will account for 50% of new cars in China. Some people say that the “New Four Trends” in Connected, Autonomous / Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles – “CASE” will reshape the industry landscape. The successful launch of the PATEO-New Baojun Mobile IoV by the New Baojun brand is in line with the “New Four Trends – CASE” strategy, and helped the New Baojun RM-5 to win the Xuanyuan Award for “Top 10 Vehicles of the Year” by standing out from the 800 plus strong competitors. By virtue of the ultimate user experience it offers, the reconstruction of the mobility mode by extending the user-vehicle connection from 2 hours to 24 hours, the revolutionary phone-based IoV technology as well as the use of industry standard chips for the first time, this vehicle model received unanimous high praise of the judges from all over the world, ranking 2nd by total score and 1st among ICE vehicles. In view of this, it is not difficult for us to see that compared to the intelligent connectivity system of other brands, New Baojun has already set out to create a new mobility life for its users; moreover, its intelligent connectivity technology is not changeless, but will continually grow and evolve with technological development.