Automated driving: Geely follows suit with G-Pilot assistance system
Geely – China’s second largest car manufacturer – wants to remain competitive in assisted driving technologies. On Monday, the company presented its G-Pilot and announced that the system will be available in five versions in its vehicles. As reported by Chinese media, Geely is aiming for a broad deployment of its assisted and automated driving solution across all brands – including Galaxy, Zeekr and Lynk&Co.
The five variants of the system range from an entry-level version (G-Pilot H1) with automatic parking assistance and motorway autopilot to the top variant (G-Pilot H9) for highly automated driving according to SEA Level 3, including certain AI functions. On the hardware side, Geely only uses cameras and radars for the simpler systems but also relies on lidar for the more powerful variants.
According to Chinese media reports, Geely also directly presented the first car equipped with the G-Pilot in a virtual briefing. The all-electric Geely Galaxy E8 sedan has the entry-level G-Pilot H1 solution with automatic parking assistance and motorway autopilot on board and costs from 149,800 yuan (just under 20,000 euros) when equipped in this way.
Competitor BYD recently announced that it would also be integrating its God’s Eye assistance system into small cars in future. Until now, the function was only available in larger vehicles with a price tag of around 29,000 euros or more. This is now changing. Other strong players in this field are China’s OEMs Xpeng and Xiaomi.
Notably, Tesla has also recently activated some ‘FSD’ functions in China with a software update. The US electric car manufacturer announced last September that it would also be bringing Full Self-Driving to China and Europe in Q1 2025. This date has now been met for China.
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