Zeekr has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign in China to improve the motive force help {hardware} and software program programs on older 001 and 009 fashions, particularly these offered for the 2024 mannequin 12 months.
As reported by Autohome, the corporate introduced the marketing campaign on its official Weibo web page inviting prospects searching for the improve to enroll from November 24 to December 24 this 12 months. In accordance with the posting, the subsidised improve bundle for the 001 is priced at 13,500 yuan (about RM7.9k), whereas it’s 18,500 yuan (RM11k) for the 009.
With out subsidies that come within the type of a voucher, the packages go for 33,500 and 38,500 yuan (RM19k and RM22k) respectively. The corporate targets a minimum of 3,000 contributors for the 001 improve, whereas 1,500 contributors for the 009 to ensure that the marketing campaign to maneuver to the subsequent stage.
By way of the marketing campaign, the Mobileye EyeQ5H system able to 48 TOPS (tera operations per second) in these older automobiles might be changed with Zeekr’s personal G-Pilot H7 system, which is constructed on Nvidia’s Drive Thor-U structure to ship as much as 700 TOPS of computing energy. Upgrading to the newer H7 requires changing chips, rewiring harnesses and re-architecting system deployments. The 001 is claimed to require almost 60 particular person elements changed, with the labour taking on 20 hours.
Following the improve, extra ADAS capabilities might be accessible to prospects, together with Navigation Zeekr Pilot (NZP) high-speed autonomous pilot help system, Hone Zone Park Help (HPA) and Common Automated Evasion System (G-AES) emergency steering help, amongst others. Improvement prices and a few {hardware} bills might be borne by Zeekr, with the corporate reportedly spending 200 million yuan (RM116 million) to develop and validate the retrofit improve.
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