Nvidia to provide AI platform for Chinese EV startups
XPeng Motors (Guangzhou, China), Singulato Motors (Beijing, China), and SF Motors (Santa Clara, CA) will be using Nvidia’s DRIVE AGX Xavier computing platform – which delivers 30 TOPS using just 30 watts of power – to develop hardware for autonomous driving, says the company. In the past five years, China has invested more than $15 billion in electric vehicle technology and aims to produce 2 million EVs by 2020, growing to 7 million by 2025, according to reports.
XPENG Motors, along with one of the largest Chinese electronics tier 1 suppliers, Desay SV Automotive, will use the DRIVE AGX Xavier for its level 3 automated driving system, which is slated for production vehicles by 2020. The XPeng G3, a level 2.5 intelligent EV powered by NVIDIA DRIVE and equipped with the X-Pilot advanced driver assist system, automatic parking, and AI voice assistant, is set to launch on December 12.
DRIVE AGX Xavier will also power upcoming vehicles from Singulato Motors, a startup developing software-defined, customizable EVs, for level 3 autonomous driving and scheduled for production in 2020. In April, the company announced that it had secured funding to invest 15 billion yuan ($2.39 billion) in a massive manufacturing hub in Suzhou, China over the next five years.
Finally, SF Motors plans to launch its first electric crossover – the SF5 – next year. The company says it will develop its next-generation autonomous compute platform with DRIVE AGX Xavier.
Nvidia released the Xavier artificial intelligence computing system-on-chip (SoC) earlier this year. Automakers using the chip, says Nvidia, can add specific software to adapt their vehicles to local traffic and infrastructure situations.
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