NIO Partners with NVIDIA to Develop a New Generation of Automated Driving Electric Vehicles
January 09 2021 - 8:28AM
NIO, a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market,
and NVIDIA announced today that the automaker has selected the
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its new generation of
electric vehicles, which will offer advanced automated driving
capabilities.
NIO is working to make consumer adoption of smart,
performance-packed electric vehicles a widespread reality. At NIO
Day, the company’s annual customer event, the EV maker revealed its
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-powered supercomputer, dubbed Adam, which will
first appear in the ET7 sedan that will ship in China starting in
2022.
“Autonomy and electrification are the key forces transforming
the automotive industry,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and
CEO. “We are delighted to partner with NIO, a leader in the new
energy vehicle revolution—leveraging the power of AI to create the
software-defined EV fleets of the future.”
“The cooperation of NIO and NVIDIA will accelerate the
development of autonomous driving on smart vehicles. NIO’s in-house
developed autonomous driving algorithms will be running on four
industry-leading NVIDIA Orin processors, delivering an
unprecedented 1000+ TOPS in production cars,” said William Li,
Founder, Chairman and CEO of NIO.
Adam signals a major achievement by NIO in bringing automotive
intelligence and autonomous driving to market, safely and reliably.
With a centralized, software-defined computing architecture, NIO’s
next-generation EVs, like the ET7 sedan, will feature the latest
AI-enabled capabilities, which are perpetually upgradable after the
point of sale.
NVIDIA Orin is the world’s highest-performance AV and robotics
processor. This scalable supercomputer-on-a-chip family delivers an
unprecedented 254 trillions of operations per second (TOPS) while
also being able to scale down to entry-level ADAS/Level 2 use cases
(10 TOPS/5 watts). NIO will feature four high-performance Orin SoCs
in each of its EVs to achieve an industry-leading performance of
1,000+ TOPS — delivering the redundancy and diversity necessary for
safe autonomous operation.
As the first of NIO’s EVs to feature Orin, the flagship ET7 is a
high-performance vehicle that accelerates from zero to 100km in
only 3.9 seconds. It also features a new 150kw battery for extended
mileage range.
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: NIO using NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for its
new generation of electric vehicles, and it offering advanced
automated driving capabilities; the benefits and impact of the NIO
and NVIDIA partnership; the availability of NIO EV models featuring
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, when it will begin production and when it will
ship; NIO working to make consumer adoption of electric vehicles
widespread; AI-enabled autonomy and electrification being among the
key forces transforming the automotive industry; NIO being a leader
in China’s new energy vehicle revolution and it leveraging the
power of AI to created software defined EV fleets; the NIO and
NVIDIA partnership accelerating the development of autonomous
driving on smart vehicles; the performance and benefits of NIO and
NVIDIA’s products and technologies, including them working
together; NIO’s EVs featuring AI-enabled capabilities that can be
upgradable after the point of sale; NVIDIA Orin being the world’s
highest-performance AV and robotics processor; and the number of
Orin SoCs NIO will use in its EVs and its performance and impact
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