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Car Daily reported on October 21, at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference held in Beijing today, Xiaomi Group Founder, Chairman and CEO Lei Jun, Geely Holdings Group Chairman Li Shufu, Seres Group Chairman Zhang Xinghai and other automotive executives spoke on the same stage, while the "heads" of Volkswagen Group, BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Group AG also made speeches.
Lei Jun stated that today's car is a simplified embodied intelligence physical terminal. The combination of AI and cars is not about adding functions to cars, but about "changing the brain".
Li Shufu talked about promoting the industry to build an open cooperation, mutually beneficial and win-win industrial ecosystem through open sharing, unified standards and resource coordination.
Volkswagen Group Management Board Chairman Oliver Blume mentioned that Volkswagen will achieve L3 readiness in 2027. L2++ full-scenario assisted driving has begun to be deployed, and the product offensive will be fully launched.
In the speech, automotive executives also shared their thoughts on the development of intelligent connected vehicles and the impact of AI on the automotive industry.
Below is a summary of the executives' speeches. Car Daily edited and integrated the content without changing the original meaning.
01.
Lei Jun Says Future 5 Years Technology R&D Investment to Exceed 200 Billion
Li Shufu Discusses Avoiding Duplicate Construction
In the speech session, Lei Jun, Zhang Xinghai, Yin Tongyue and Li Shufu took the stage to share their practices and thoughts on the development of intelligent connected vehicles, high-quality industry development and overseas expansion experience.
1. Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group: Today's Cars are Simplified Embodied Intelligence Physical Terminals. Investment in Hard-core Technology Research and Development Expected to Exceed 200 Billion in the Next Five Years.
In the speech, Lei Jun first introduced the achievements of Xiaomi Automobile. Currently, Xiaomi Automobile has delivered more than 800,000 vehicles, with an average price of about 260,000 RMB.
▲Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group
Regarding intelligent connected vehicles, Lei Jun believes AI has promoted intelligent connected vehicles from separation intelligence to whole-vehicle intelligence. Today's cars are simplified embodied intelligence physical terminals. Past intelligent connected vehicles breakthroughs and innovations were mostly concentrated on single functions and single scenarios. However, the combination of AI and cars is not about adding functions to cars, it is "changing the brain". To achieve a whole-vehicle intelligence experience upgrade, it is necessary to rely on a unified and powerful foundation large model.
Lei Jun also mentioned that since the first day of making cars, Xiaomi Automobile has attached great importance to safety. Xiaomi internally established the VSR Automobile Safety Research Center, an independent R&D institution, to independently investigate backend-to-end analysis issues, and then feed back to the R&D system for improvement.
At the same time, Xiaomi Automobile established a Global Safety Department, specifically designing the safety system of the whole vehicle. Then Xiaomi Automobile established a specialized safety department, led by safety experts, coordinating safety affairs overall, and also strengthening the leadership role of the Auto Safety Committee. Xiaomi Automobile also established a dedicated Auto Safety Advisory Committee, bringing together experts from industry institutions, universities, and research institutions to participate, to truly make the safety of the whole vehicle well.
For the second half of the intelligent connected vehicle era, Lei Jun believes the competition is not just about how smart the car is, but how powerful the ecosystem is. China has the most complete industrial chain in the world, the most active AI innovation atmosphere and the largest single market, with full opportunity to connect the entire intelligent ecosystem into one and forge an innovative path of a Chinese style.
Human-Vehicle-Home Full Ecosystem is Xiaomi's core strategy. So far, Xiaomi has built the largest consumer-grade IoT platform in the world. As of the end of the second quarter, the number of connected devices in Xiaomi's global AIoT has exceeded 1.1 billion units.
To make the ecosystem experience good, in the past few years Xiaomi has been continuously increasing R&D investment in underlying hard-core technologies such as chips, operating systems, AI, and embodied intelligence. Lei Jun stated that in the past five years, Xiaomi invested 105.5 billion in hard-core technology R&D, and expects to invest over 200 billion in the next five years.
2. Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Seres Group Co., Ltd.: Firmly Cooperate with Industry High-End Industrial Chains, AITO Models Cumulative Total Driving Mileage Exceeds 40 Billion Kilometers.
Seres Group Chairman Zhang Xinghai shared on high-quality development.
▲Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Seres Group Co., Ltd.
Guided by the 15th Five-Year Plan, industry competent departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have issued supporting policies such as the Industrial Development 15th Five-Year Plan for Intelligent Connected Vehicles around the main line of high safety and high quality, to build a deployable and executable regulatory framework. Continuously perfect intelligent connected vehicle access and pilot tests, accelerate the formulation of mandatory standards for autonomous driving, whole-vehicle safety, power batteries, etc., strengthen product innovation design review and test verification management, increase supervision and inspection of production consistency, and guard the bottom line of product safety.
Seres persists in cross-boundary integration, does not fight alone, firmly cooperates with industry high-end industrial chains, plays their respective strengths, makes their strengths longer, and continuously brings users high-safety and high-quality experiences.
In the past five years, Seres took the lead in deep cross-boundary integration with Huawei. Not only did it continuously bring users the latest and most cutting-edge technologies in intelligentization aspects such as Qiankun ADS and HarmonyOS Cockpit. The choice and trust of AITO users in the millions have fully verified that the cross-boundary integration Harmony Intelligence Drive mode is right, feasible, and doable. It not only explored new paths for industry development, but also had a profound and positive impact on industrial development.
Looking to the future, AITO cooperating with Harmony Intelligence Drive will firmly anchor high-end, continuously promote cross-boundary integration optimization and upgrade, give full play to Huawei's intelligence advantages, give full play to the advantages of the Harmony Intelligence Drive business model, explore more viable paths for high-quality development, and achieve high-quality sustainable growth.
Zhang Xinghai also mentioned that cars are a marathon, neither fast nor slow. It is necessary to adhere to long-termism, adhere to safety being the greatest luxury, and always put user safety and personal safety first.
Regarding current results, as of the end of September, the cumulative total mileage of AITO models exceeded 40 billion kilometers, among which the pure electric driving mileage of extended-range models is 28.5 billion kilometers, accounting for 70%.
In the 1.2 million AITO vehicles sold, extended-range models account for 70% and pure electric cars account for 30%. AITO car ADAS active users broke through the million level, cumulative ADAS mileage broke through the billion kilometer level, cumulative avoidance of possible collision times exceeded 4.3 million times, and 720,000 active intelligence services.
3. Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery Holding: Going Overseas is Not Harvesting, Must Integrate into the Local Industrial System.
Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery Holding, introduced Chery's experience and thinking in export. Yin Tongyue stated that internationalization work is a complex systematic project. It is necessary to adhere to long-termism. It is not enough to sell cars, but to integrate into the local industrial system, supply chain, technology chain, value chain collaboration.
▲Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery Holding
Yin Tongyue also responded to recent quality problems encountered by Chery in Malaysia. Yin Tongyue stated he met the Minister of Industry of Malaysia today, apologized to him, and took responsibility for users at the first time.
Regarding internationalization, Yin Tongyue first proposed that standards must be aligned with international ones, especially with the European Union.
Secondly, it is necessary to deeply understand localization. It is necessary to research, manufacture, purchase, sell locally in the local area and absorb local culture and talents.
Yin Tongyue believes going overseas is not about harvesting, but about taking root. It is necessary to respect local laws and regulations and business rules, and truly deeply integrate into local culture. Respect is not enough, it is necessary to integrate into local culture, and truly achieve localized development.
4. Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Holdings Group: Cannot Do Duplicate Construction, Intelligent Technology Should Also Coordinate.
Recently, Geely Holding Group and NIO reached a formal agreement on strategic transactions for battery swapping and charging businesses. Li Shufu stated that through open sharing, unified standards and resource coordination, help the industry build an open cooperation, mutually beneficial and win-win industrial ecosystem, providing users with another choice possibility is battery swapping.
▲Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Holdings Group
But Li Shufu feels that duplicate construction should not be carried out. Production capacity is the same. Geely's global capacity is also for cooperation. It is not to buy land and build houses, the investment is too large, and the risk is too large. So make every effort to utilize existing capacity for cooperation and develop slowly step by step.
Li Shufu also believes intelligent technology should also be coordinated together, to reduce duplicate investment, to achieve high-level sustainable development. Small and weak will inevitably lead to chaos and poor quality. Only large and strong can lead the industry to better development.
02.
Heads of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW Speaks
Strengthen R&D in China Locally
At the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference, the "heads" of the "German Trio" Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW also made speeches.
1. Volkswagen Group Management Board Chairman Oliver Blume: From Making Cars in China to Carrying Out Technology R&D in China. L3 Ready by 2027.
Volkswagen Group Management Board Chairman Oliver Blume introduced the progress of Volkswagen in local R&D in China.
▲Oliver Blume, Chairman of Volkswagen Group Management Board
Blume mentioned that Volkswagen launched the largest transformation in the group's history three years ago. From making cars in China to carrying out technology R&D in China. Nowadays, Volkswagen Group is one of the few car companies mastering full-stack new energy vehicle technology, including the whole vehicle platform and electronic and electrical architecture, as well as the self-developed assisted driving solution realized through the Qian Cheng joint venture enterprise. The solution has accumulated training mileage of more than 100 million kilometers. These technologies are all R&D in China.
In Hefei, Volkswagen has more than 3,000 colleagues participating in decision-making. Software and hardware development in parallel allow Volkswagen to actively master the initiative of technology. These technologies are on the road. Volkswagen's product offensive has been fully launched. L2++ full-scenario assisted driving has begun to be deployed. L3 readiness will be achieved by 2027.
Thomas Ulbrich, Chief Technology Officer of Volkswagen Group (China) and CEO of Volkswagen Automotive (China) Technology Co., Ltd. (VCTC), made a speech at the venue. He stated that Volkswagen and joint venture partners have shortened the product development cycle in the automotive industry from 5 to 6 years to 3 years, or even shorter time.
▲Thomas Ulbrich, Chief Technology Officer of Volkswagen Group (China) and CEO of Volkswagen Automotive (China) Technology Co., Ltd. (VCTC)
Volkswagen has built a local automobile development platform, covering all key new energy vehicle sub-sectors, including Volkswagen and XPeng building a brand new computing power and regional control electronic architecture together.
Through Qian Cheng, Volkswagen and partners such as Horizon Robotics developed new products. Volkswagen's Advanced Driver Assistance Technology Stack covers all scenarios. It will be further applied to Volkswagen automobiles starting from the second half of this year.
In 2027 to 2028, Volkswagen will strive to achieve L3 readiness. It will also develop L3 to L4 level products independently through the joint venture system and deploy them in the Chinese market.
Ulbrich also mentioned that Volkswagen will take architectures and platforms developed in China to the world. Cars have begun to be exported to the Middle East, and even expanded to ASEAN and South American markets.
2. Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG: China Market is an Important Innovation Center in the Electric Vehicle Field. Mercedes-Benz Wants to Learn from Chinese Partners.
Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, made a speech remotely via video. Members of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, responsible for Greater China business; Oliver Thöne, Chairman and CEO of Mercedes-Benz (China) Investment Co., Ltd., made a speech at the venue.
▲Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Oliver Thöne stated that for Mercedes-Benz, the Chinese market has always been an important innovation center in the electric vehicle field, and also an important innovation center for intelligent technology, possessing huge opportunities to invest and upgrade.
Mercedes-Benz is the first international car company to provide Highway Assist Driving systems in China. It is currently promoting the technology to city assist driving, and the installation rate is also continuously increasing. Compared to this year and last year, it has doubled so far.
As these functions cover more customers, Mercedes-Benz knows safety and responsibility are becoming more and more important. The next stage of innovation is more about how to achieve higher levels of safety and reliability for cars. This is also the principle of Mercedes-Benz R&D.
Mercedes-Benz is one of the first car companies to obtain conditional L3 level autonomous driving certification. Facing complex systems and complex environments, Mercedes-Benz will carry out more close cooperation with Chinese partners. More than 2,000 engineers are also working on local R&D, constantly dedicated to upgrading the system.
Mercedes-Benz hopes to create customized Mercedes-Benz Driving Assistance systems for the Chinese market. At the same time, based on the cooperation between Mercedes-Benz and Tsinghua University, a visual language AI model has been developed and applied to the Mercedes-Benz rear seat system, which will also be deployed and sold globally.
In terms of assist driving, Mercedes-Benz cooperates with Momenta. This system is currently deployed only on pure electric vehicles, but in the future it will be extended to Mercedes-Benz's entire vehicle product portfolio. In China, Mercedes-Benz has already had 17 billion kilometers and a large amount of real driving data, and conducted extensive real vehicle tests.
Mercedes-Benz customers will also enjoy new world models, and park-to-park pilot navigation. It can run perfectly on highways, ETC, city roads, and even in parking lots.
Mercedes-Benz will continue to strive, learn and exchange with Chinese partners, share engineering experience at the same time, and contribute to the development of intelligent driving in China together with partners and policy makers.
3. Milan Nedeljković, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW Group: Digitalization, Intelligence, Electrification and Sustainable Development Are Reshaping the Automotive Industry, While AI Is Accelerating This Transformation.
BMW believes AI and autonomous driving are reshaping travel methods and the entire automotive value chain, while BMW Group Chairman Milan Nedeljković stated intelligent connected vehicles are at the core of this transformation.
▲Milan Nedeljković, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW Group
At the same time, international cooperation has always been an important development guiding principle for BMW. BMW promises to be committed to building a bridge of cooperation between Germany, the European Union and China, gathering advantages from all sides.
Christian Ach, President and CEO of BMW Group Greater China, stated that Digitalization, Intelligence, Electrification and Sustainable Development are reshaping the industry, while AI is accelerating this transformation.
▲Christian Ach, President and CEO of BMW Group Greater China
For BMW, AI is no longer just an auxiliary technology, reshaping the way automotive R&D, production, and customer travel.
In R&D, BMW is using AI to accelerate complex analysis, automatically execute repetitive tasks and optimize R&D processes. AI agents can combine BMW's decades of engineering knowledge and existing data with AI systems, giving BMW engineers brand new capabilities. However, engineers always hold the initiative and will not replace human responsibility.
AI-driven digitalization has become a core component of BMW's i Factory production system, covering Virtual Factory, Digital Twin, AI-assisted Quality Inspection, and Smart Logistics.
Looking to the future, Ach believes the combination of AI digital agents and intelligent robots will bring huge opportunities to improve production flexibility and efficiency.
At the same time, BMW maintains close cooperation with leading global and Chinese technology and AI enterprises. BMW is cooperating with Chinese leading technology enterprises such as Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent to jointly develop smart cockpits, personal assistants and connected solutions.
BMW also joins hands with Momenta to jointly develop the next generation of driving assistance systems targeting China's complex road and traffic environments.
Christian Ach shared three propositions on defining the future of travel with AI. First is the need for a fair, open, healthy and predictable competitive environment. Second, it should maintain an open attitude towards different technology routes and choose solutions that can create the greatest value. Third, in the process of pursuing innovation and speed, quality and safety must never be compromised.
