Beijing Automotive C70G will be listed next year

Yesterday, Chen Lei, general manager of Beijing Branch of Beijing Automotive Co., Ltd., told reporters that Beijing Auto's own brand high-end manufacturing base is preparing for production. The first high-end autonomous sedan has mass production conditions and will be available in the first half of next year.

The first high-end car from Saab's own brand, the mid-to-high-end passenger car, the C70G, which was released on December 28 last year, has entered the mass production preparation stage. Chen Lei revealed that it will be listed as soon as March and April of next year.

After BAIC acquired Saab’s core assets, Beijing Automotive successfully developed C70G by researching and digesting Saab’s mature technologies. Chen Lei introduced, "When developing the C70G, considering that Saab's own technology is excellent and mature, but the shape is not accepted by the Chinese market, so the body shape is redesigned, and the wheelbase is pulled without destroying the original technical parameters. Long, more suitable for the needs of Chinese consumers."

In order to ensure the quality of self-developed products, Beijing Automotive hired Saab team members. "At that time, when we acquired Saab Technology, we attached conditions to the contract requesting Saab's technical team to provide us with support. But now, they have become our employees hired by BAIC to control the quality of vehicles for us and cultivate domestic talents." Indicated. In addition to relying on external forces to cultivate local talents, Beijing Automobile also has a talented team that it has cultivated.

In 2015, the realization of 300,000 production capacity was different from that of other domestic automakers. Beijing Auto started late. Currently, independent brands such as Chery, Geely, BYD, and Great Wall have become independent forces for their own products, as well as Chang'an, Aeolus, JAC. Younger forces such as Lifan, in this context, Beijing Autos, as latecomers, faced numerous challenges. Therefore, Beijing Automotive intends to step out of a high-end autonomous vehicle road to build a base with high intelligence, high starting point, and high standards to produce high-end models.

At present, Beijing Auto's own-brand high-end models have been planned for 6 products, in addition to the C70G and an SUV model that will be launched next year, there will be a variety of models including C50E, C60F, C80K, and B90W in the late stage, and At the end of the five-year period, the base's annual production capacity will reach 300,000 units, and its annual operating income is expected to reach 41.56 billion yuan.

â–¡ Visiting the Innovation Workshop on the Workshop Yesterday, when the reporter visited Beijing Auto's manufacturing base in Shunyi District, he saw that more than a dozen C70G sedan cars were parked in the production workshop. According to Chen Lei, these vehicles have just been assembled and are mainly used to test product quality and perform durability tests.

In addition to the new car, the reporter found that there is a relatively independent area in the production workshop called “Innovation Studio”. There is a mini-production line here. According to Li Bing, senior technician of Beijing Automotive Assembly Plant, this is his main workplace. Here he trains new employees and allows them to adapt to the production line as soon as possible. In addition, the problems found in the production of assembly vehicles are also tested and solved here.

Li Bing first worked in Beijing Light Vehicle Co., Ltd. (one of the subsidiaries of BAIC Group). From here, he started technical work in the field. In 2002, Beijing Hyundai was just established. He became one of the first employees to enter the BAIC joint venture company and went to South Korea. Modern car training. With years of front-line work experience, Li Bing has a strong technology and has become a senior technical talent. In May 2011, Li Bing entered the Beijing Automobile Company and brought back a self-owned brand of Beiqi with a technology learned from the joint venture.