At the recent Baidu World Congress held on November 1, 2018, Baidu and Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW unveiled the Red Flag E-Boundary level 4 autonomous electric car. The Red Flag E-Boundary is based on the E-HS3 by the luxury brand Hongqi.
The E-Boundary will be launched in small batches in 2019 followed by
mass production in 2020. Chairman of FAW Dr. Xu Liuping said at the
conference, “Last month we released the red flag technology brand R.Flag with its branded autonomous system i.RFlag.
In a bid to revitalize the struggling state-owned Hongqi, FAWs
luxury brand known for producing limousines for the Chinese state the
company this week unveiled its new EV strategy. Hongqi will develop two
platforms, the “532” for larger vehicles and the “432” for smaller
vehicles. Hongqi Auto will build five pure electric vehicles, three
plug-in hybrids, and two combustion vehicles on the large platform and
four EVs, three PHEVs and two ICE vehicles on the smaller platform.
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