China’s BYD plans to be building self-driving cars within three years
‘The new era of intelligent vehicles has arrived and by 2035, they will dominate the streets,’ says chairman and president Wang Chuanfu
BYD, China’s leading electric vehicle maker, is aiming to launch its first self-driving cars within three years, in partnership with mainland internet giant Baidu.
Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s chairman and president, said after securing a pole position in the electric car sector, it now plans to focus attention on building intelligent vehicles, or what he described as “super mobile phones on wheels”.
“As the auto industry makes new cars smarter, great changes will take place in people’s daily life,” he told a developer conference in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
“The new era of intelligent vehicles has arrived and by 2035, they will dominate the streets.”
Wang did not elaborate on the number of self-driving cars BYD aims to make initially.
As the auto industry makes new cars smarter, great changes will take place in people’s daily life
Part-owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, BYD was created in the 1990s, initially as a battery manufacturer before it started building vehicles in 2003.
