On August 17, 2024, Henan Desa Automobile Co., Ltd. and WeRide Technology Co., Ltd. reached a strategic cooperation agreement. Both parties will follow the principles of "complementary advantages, resource integration, efficient collaboration, long-term cooperation, and win-win cooperation", and carry out in-depth cooperation in areas such as dual smart city service solutions, unmanned driving cleaning equipment, and information platform construction, jointly exploring and building the future path of smart sanitation.
With the rapid advancement of urbanization, the demand for urban cleaning and landfill disposal has further expanded, and the field of environmental sanitation has become an important component of urban management. Despite the vast prospects, the challenges faced by China's environmental sanitation are constantly increasing. The traditional environmental sanitation management model is no longer suitable for the needs of modern urban development. With the rise of intelligent environmental sanitation, new solutions have been provided for sustainable urban development.
As the pioneer of China's electric drive axle new energy sanitation vehicles, Desa Automobile has always adhered to the business philosophy of "profession creats value " and is committed to becoming a unicorn in the field of new energy and intelligent connected sanitation vehicles. The company has a professional team of technical research and development, lean manufacturing, quality control, and marketing services. In recent years, it has achieved excellent results in the export of specialized vehicles, continuously adding strength to the cause of "Made in China Going Global".
As a globally leading technology company in autonomous driving technology, WeRide has been engaged in autonomous driving research and development, testing, and operation in 30 cities in 7 countries worldwide since its establishment. For many years, it has been committed to developing safe and reliable autonomous driving technology. At present, it has been listed on NASDAQ on October 25th Eastern Time, becoming the first stock of a global general autonomous driving company.
It is understood that after cooperation, the two parties will tailor intelligent networked system solutions for customers around "cloud integrated intelligent control system, intelligent driving system, and intelligent management system", which are "more energy-efficient, efficient, and easier to operate".
By utilizing the characteristics of simple environmental sanitation operation scenarios, low safety risks, and fixed regional routes, autonomous driving can effectively save labor costs, improve operation efficiency, reduce safety hazards, and lower pollutant emissions, becoming a powerful weapon for the environmental sanitation industry. From the high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone in Beijing, to the smart sanitation demonstration zone in Tianxin District, Hunan, and then to the national testing zones in Changsha, Wuhan, Shanghai and other places, a series of policy support and application scenarios have provided fertile soil for the development of intelligent sanitation vehicles.
We will work together with WeRide to create the Desa S1 unmanned cleaning vehicle. This vehicle has a maximum speed of 20km/h and is equipped with a high beam laser radar, which can achieve high-precision obstacle detection and trajectory prediction. Combined with high-precision combined inertial navigation and high-precision maps, it can not only maintain edge work, but also flexibly navigate various static and dynamic obstacles. Desa Automobile Chairman Zhang Zhengguang said that in addition to the Desa S1 unmanned cleaning vehicle, the two sides will also simultaneously establish an intelligent dispatch and management platform for environmental sanitation, which can perform unmanned cleaning tasks. Combined with full surround machine vision monitoring and remote data transmission, it can be uniformly managed, commanded, and cleaned to achieve monitoring, traceability, linkage, and standardization of environmental sanitation operations.
Zhang Zhengguang stated that this new technology is expected to further improve outdoor cleaning efficiency, reduce labor and management costs, and unlock "new quality productivity" for urban development. In the future, both parties will establish multidimensional and comprehensive cooperation in product research and development, commercial applications, market operations, production equipment, and channel resource sharing, jointly promoting the intelligent upgrading of environmental sanitation equipment and innovation in unmanned environmental sanitation operations, creating a "beautiful landscape" city in Xinyang, and fully promoting the construction of "green energy and beautiful Xinyang".