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FAW-Volkswagen announced on January 11th that the company has 7 major R&D bases across the country, with a continuous increase in the scale of R&D personnel and investment funds. In the future, there will be an annual R&D investment of over 18 billion yuan. Combining the core technical capabilities of both shareholders, the company will focus on architecture, cockpit, intelligent driving, three electric systems, and styling.

From the official public account, it was learned that FAW-Volkswagen's cumulative investment in the transformation to electrification has reached a scale of tens of billions, adopting a brand-new electric vehicle platform and upgrading the electronic architecture. The CEA regional architecture has achieved a significant reduction of 30% in the number of control units within a single vehicle, a cost optimization of 40%, and a 30% acceleration in R&D.

Furthermore, FAW-Volkswagen has also cooperated deeply with key intelligent product suppliers in the field, such as Luxshare Precision and Midea Weiling Auto Parts, adopting Horizon's latest chip - the J6 chip. In the future, higher-level L2++ autonomous driving functions, 4-nanometer process chips, 3.0 AI cockpits, AI large models, and other features will also be successively introduced to vehicles.

Previously, FAW-Volkswagen announced that in 2024, it completed a total of 1,659,107 terminal sales of whole vehicles (including Audi imported vehicles), becoming the only joint venture in the industry to break through 1.6 million units in sales, and continues to maintain the first position in sales among domestic joint ventures and the first position in the domestic fuel car market.