TRANSFORM MOBILITY WITH AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
•2018.10 Re-branded to WeRide
with new logo (previously JingChi).
•2018.10 Completed Series A
fundraising led by strategic investor
Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi,
making WeRide the first L4
autonomous driving start-up
company in China to receive
investment from and form strategic
partnership with a global top tier
automaker.
•2018.11 Launched the 1st L4
RoboTaxi service in China in
partnership with Baiyun Public
Transport Group and started trial
operation in Guangzhou.
•2019
•2019.01 Received another two
significant investments in its Series A
round from Sense Time Technology and
ABC International (a wholly owned
subsidiary of Agricultural Bank of China),
reaching tens of millions of US dollars.
•2019.03 Announced the launch of Pre-
Commercial L4 autonomous driving
Solutions, brand new sensor suite and the
Nissan LEAF2 model at GTC 2019.
•2019.04 Kicked off the riding trail of
Zhumeng Hao L4 autonomous driving
vehicle and announced the development
of 4 centers in Anqing, covering
operation, labeling, cloud computing &
big data and retrofit
•2019.06 Received a total of 20
Guangzhou autonomous driving road
test licenses plates, including the No. 01
license, accounted for more than 80% of
the total number of licenses in
Guangzhou, ranking the 2nd in the
country.
•2019.08 Launched a joint venture -
WeRide RoboTaxi, together with Baiyun
Taxi Group and SCI (Guangzhou) Group,
the first of its kind in Tier 1 cities in China.
2019.08 Conducted 10-kilometer
long self-driving test rides on an
open urban road in Guangzhou,
marking the longest distance of
autonomous driving unveiled to the
public in China.
•2019.09 Unveiled a test drive of
over 50 kilometers on a Silicon
Valley highway (with a speed limit of
105 km/h), marking the completion
of "WeRide ONE", an all-in-one
algorithm solution which can apply
to all weather and traffic scenarios in
urban RoboTaxi operation areas.
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