On April 24th, Baolong and JOYNEXT officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the Shanghai auto show. The executives of Baolong (which include Charles Zhang, Chairman and President, Bennie Wang, General Manager of Technology Centre & IDS BU, and Min Zhang, General Manager of Marketing Centre), executives of JOYNEXT (which include Xiaohua Xi, CEO, Yuan Chen, Head of Global Business Development, Kui Zhu, CTO of Asia, and Mengyu Hu, Head of Global Strategic Ecology, and Public Relations & Market), and representatives from NIO (which include Feng Shen, Executive Vice President, and Jun Li, Assistant Vice President) attended the signing ceremony to witness the moment that marks the beginning of in-depth cooperation between the two parties in the field of intelligent assisted driving and intelligent cabin.
As mentioned by Feng Shen, Executive Vice President of NIO, “The cooperation between Baolong and JOYNEXT, a cooperation between two giants, will greatly improve the collaborative efficiency of the supply chain, accelerate the development and application of new technologies, and help OEMs launch more advanced and reliable smart cars faster.”
As the intelligent vehicle connectivity division of Joyson Electronics, JOYNEXT is headquartered in China, with business covering Germany, Poland, France, the United States, Japan, etc. The company has supplied to global OEMs as a tier-1 supplier for over 20 years, and has long cooperated with well-known carmakers such as Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, NIO, and HiPhi. JOYNEXT is committed to providing integrated software and hardware solutions, and its business covers intelligent cabin, intelligent connectivity, intelligent assisted driving, software solutions and software engineering services. The products have been applied to more than 20 million vehicles worldwide. At present, JOYNEXT has 7 R&D centers, 3 global manufacturing parks and 7 customer centers around the world, with more than 1,600 employees.
Baolong is a global supplier of automotive intelligent & lightweight technologies and solutions. It has 9 manufacturing parks, 19 factories, 11 R&D centers and 9 nationally certified laboratories in China, North America, and Europe, with more than 7,500 employees worldwide. In the field of intelligent assisted driving, Baolong focuses on the field of sensors, and has independently developed 77GHz millimeter-wave radar, various kinds of high-definition cameras, ultrasonic radars, etc., which have been supplied to Chery, SAIC, Dongfeng-Nissan, BYD, Changan and many other OEMs.
According to the agreement, the two parties will focus on the fields of L2 to L4 assisted driving and intelligent cabin, give full play to their respective advantages, share resources, and promote the synergy and application of related products and technologies in Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration, low-altitude economy, and robotics.
This strategic cooperation will jointly promote the transformation of the intelligent automotive industry and bring users a smarter, safer and more personalized driving experience.
