The world´s first purpose-built autonomous vehicle launched

A different tomorrow is finally here. The first purpose built and designed fully autonomous vehicle for ride hailing has been presented to the world. It is a ZEEKR, engineered and designed by CEVT and Geely Design Global.

ZEEKR’s sees the future of mobility to be intelligent, friendly, confident and adaptable, as advanced autonomous system in the future will safely and effortlessly take the users where they want to go.

Vehicles can become a place to entertain friends, a movable office for meetings, a room for kids to study in, or a relaxing lounge to kick back and catch some ZZZ. Users just need to take a step inside and relax on the go.

SEA-M

The SEA-M architecture is a high-tech mobility solution from ZEEKR refined from the original Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) to support a range of future mobility products including robotaxis, multi-purpose vehicles, and logistics vehicles, laying a solid and flexible foundation for global autonomous driving technology or ride-sharing companies to develop.

The SEA-M subverts the idea of developing vehicles around the driver, which doesn’t exist in autonomous vehicles. It gives designers the opportunity to create an intelligent mobile “living room” due to the architecture’s fundamental features such as great roominess and low instep height, open seat choice and placement option, no B-pillar, and robust electrical/electronic backbone supporting autonomous drive and connected devices. With flat floors and an expansive axle to length ratio, designers have been able to maximize interior space with a capsule design.

These technologies come with no compromise on safety. All SEA-M-based vehicles will meet global five-star safety standards.

ZEEKR X Waymo

In 2021, ZEEKR announced its first customer for vehicles built on the SEA-M platform was autonomous driving technology company Waymo, headquartered in the United States. ZEEKR and Waymo collaborated on the development of a purpose-built TaaS SEA-M variant which will be deployed with in the Waymo One ride-hailing fleet in the coming years. Waymo recently showcased its ZEEKR vehicle integrated with Waymo’s technology at a reveal event in Los Angeles in November.

Quotes

ZEEKR CEO Andy AN said: “The unveiling of ZEEKR’s SEA-M has shown the brand’s technological strengths and potential. The affirmation of partners for the SEA-M has also reflected ZEEKR’s ability to customize development according to the needs of each user. Going forth, ZEEKR will continue to work with great global partners to support better and more sustainable intelligent mobility for all.”

CEVT CEO and VP ZEEKR R&D Mats Fägerhag: “This is a very special Zeekr vehicle – one that was designed to be ahead of the curve on autonomous mobility. Our motivation is driven by the fact that everyone agrees that things need to change. For the people. For the planet we live on. And one way to do that is to develop the next generation of mobility solutions. We all know we have to change the way we move around”.

“CEVT has used the experience of developing architectures in the past for Volvo, Geely and very recently Lynk & Co and Polestar - underpinning over 2 million vehicles - to take the next step – and lead the industry into the future. With that in mind, the task of developing the world’s most intelligent mobility architecture, was a natural step forward: fully electric, modular, efficient, connected and ready to safely transport people and goods.”

Press release from ZEEKER:

ZEEKR’s SEA-M Architecture Is the New Answer to Future Mobility : Media Center – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (zgh.com)

Waymo reveal event announcement

https://fb.watch/gTbX9EKKfV/

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