江淮大众将在3月发布三款新能源车型，这些车未来可能会销往海外市场。江淮汽车提出到2020年新车销售量达到100万辆并计划于2019年向市场推出自动驾驶车型。此外，江淮还提出力争将新能源车的销量提高至占整体销量的30%达到30万辆的目标，这相当于2017年销量预期的10倍。同时，江淮还将与主导自动驾驶技术开发的百度合作，计划2019年发售达到“Level3”级别的新车。事实上，早在2017年5月就有官方消息称江淮与大众在华共同投资的纯电动汽车项目正式获批。按照规划，合资公司成立后，会推出一个全新的新能源品牌。首款产品定为SUV，将采用江淮现有平台，之后的车型则引入大众平台进行改造。据江淮汽车内部人士透露，目前新车已经进入路试阶段，进展顺利，将于2018年正式推向市场。
JAC VW to release 3 NEV models in March
It is reported that JAC Volkswagen (JAC VW), the joint venture of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Ltd. (JAC) and Volkswagen, will release 3 models of new energy vehicles (NEVs) to China’s market before March of 2018 and may sell them to overseas markets in future.
Reportedly, JAC has set its 2020 annual sales target of 1 million units and made planning to put autonomous vehicles to market for sale in 2019. Besides, JAC aims to sell 300,000 NEVs in 2020, accounting for 30% of overall annual sales, which is 10 times of its 2017 sales expectation.
Meanwhile, JAC will collaborate with Baidu, the leading Chinese autonomous driving technology developer, to release L3 autonomous vehicles in 2019.
In fact, the program of jointly producing pure electric passenger vehicles by JAC and Volkswagen (VW) was approved by China’s authorities as early as May, 2017. According to planning, a new brand of NEV will be launched after the joint venture being established. The first product may be a model of SUV using the existing production platform of JAC. According to JAC’ insiders, the new model is being tested on road at present and will be official launched in 2018 if all of operations run well.