On December 16th, 2024, the 11th China Automobile Industry Annual Contribution Award — — Xuanyuan Award Ceremony was held in China Chegu International Sports and Cultural Exchange Center in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone.
Xuanyuan Award was jointly sponsored by auto business review and Austrian EFS in 2013, adhering to the "three independences" award criteria, which are independent of business, power and relationship. Experts from all over the world selected China’s automobile of the year, looking for the contribution samples of China’s automobile industry, thus pushing the new automobile forward.
75 models were declared. After the initial evaluation, 40 finalists gathered in Wuhan Intelligent Networked Vehicle Test Site. After four rigorous tests and tests of static and dynamic, cockpit ecology and intelligent interaction, intelligent driving experience and scene experience, a total of 25 models entered the final evaluation.
On December 15th, members of the jury of Xuanyuan Award made a final evaluation on 25 models, and the whole selection process was very heated.
Dr. Jia Ke, director of Xuanyuan Award Executive Committee, editor-in-chief of auto business review and director of Xuanyuan School, said: "The judges can abstain from voting against all the winning models. As long as one judge votes against it, we will continue to discuss it until we come up with a list that everyone agrees on. Our review process is also a discussion process. In this discussion process, our understanding of the industry can be further deepened. "
In the end, the winners of the 2024 Xuanyuan Award were grandly released.
TOP10 models of Xuanyuan Award Year: Ideal L7, Weilai ES6, Jetway Traveler, Tucki G6, MG Cyberster, Warrior 917, Lectra 08 EM-P, Deep Blue S7i, Lantu Zhuiguang PHEV, SAIC-GM-Wuling Bingo; Xuanyuan Award Special Award: Excellent Iteration Award — — New Lantu Dreamer, Brand Promotion Award — — Nezha S, Rookie Award — — Extreme Leap 01, Scene Innovation Award — — Polar fox car koala; Nominated models of Xuanyuan Award for the year: Zhiji LS7, Gaohe HiPhi Y, Extreme Krypton X, GAC Chuanqi New Energy E9, Weipai Gaoshan DHT-PHEV, Haobo GT, Haval Raptors, SAIC-GM-Wuling Baojun Yunyun, Geely Yinhe L7, Wenjie New M7 and Feifan F7.
Unexpectedly, the 2024 Xuanyuan Award for Automobile of the Year was vacant. This is the first time that the annual award has been vacant since the Xuanyuan Award was awarded in 11 years. Why did this happen? The answer will be revealed later.
This year’s Xuanyuan Award ceremony added a new link, which is to share the highlights and trends of Xuanyuan Award products found in the annual evaluation with the industry.
Professor Ma Jun, the judge of Xuanyuan Prize, School of Automobile and School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University, shared the "Development Trend of Intelligent Cockpit and New Method of Product Development". He believes that next year, the big model will be a battleground for military strategists, and car companies must do it. Focusing on the evaluation of user experience, human-computer interaction risk and security of large models, they are building an evaluation system for large models.
Ni Kai, the judge of Xuanyuan Award, founder and CEO of Heduo Technology, published the Xuanyuan Award Intelligent Driving Test Report. This intelligent driving evaluation is divided into four categories: basic driving, advanced driving, basic parking and advanced parking. In terms of driving, the scores of new power brands, independent new brands and traditional independent brands are equal; In terms of parking, the new power brands and independent new brands have not shown their advantages. On the contrary, many traditional independent brands have achieved good results.
Zhang Xiaoliang, the judge of Xuanyuan Award, founder and CEO of SoCar product strategy consulting, brought the trend sharing of Xuanyuan Award annual evaluation scene experience. He said, "From this year’s review, we have seen many things that we have never seen before. These things mean that we are making a new round of innovation in another direction. Whether these innovations must be logical or not will certainly stand the long-term test of the market. This will take some time to sort out and may bring more input to our core scenes and killer scenes in the next stage. "
Du Fang, the representative of Xuanyuan Award test partner and director of Botai products, shared the Xuanyuan Award annual test of intelligent cockpit. This year’s overall trend is to face a more hard-core, more delicate and more interconnected scene experience, with enhanced scene capabilities and more technological and intelligent blessings. She also made some predictions about the future trend: the application of large-scale models in the automotive field will become a new trend next year, whether the multi-modal cockpit natural interaction will surpass the mobile phone-like interaction and become a better way of interaction, and the global integration of cockpit, intelligent driving and vehicle capabilities will bring great challenges.
In 2024, the list of intelligent driving in the 11th Xuanyuan Awards was released simultaneously. At the same time, excellent cases of intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit and scene experience were also revealed.
There is also a very interesting link at the scene. According to the design characteristics of the TOP10 model of the 2024 Xuanyuan Award, EFS AI expert Minh Cao used AIGC to generate a set of concept car design drawings. In this regard, Wang Xuanzheng, a judge of the Xuanyuan Prize and a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, asked: "If all our designs are exactly the same as expected, what is the role of users in the whole system? Where should our emotions and personalities be placed? "
Finally, he commented: "AI today, no matter what, we always firmly believe that it is a tool, not a complete solution. Of course, behind deciding whether it is a tool or a plan, it must be our interesting thoughts and souls. "
The only annual vehicle vacancy in the history of Xuanyuan Award was the unanimous decision of the Xuanyuan Award Executive Committee and the members of the jury.
Truls Thorstensen, chairman of the Xuanyuan Prize jury and president and CEO of Austrian EFS arc advisory group, said: "If we put these models tested this year in previous years, each model has the ability to win the final prize."
But at the same time, he pointed out: this year’s automobile products have a homogenization trend; Compared with last year’s products, this year’s automobile products are not so daring to try new things; Compared with previous years, we haven’t seen some excellent product performance this year.
Vacancy does not mean the retrogression of products and automobile industry, but it is gestating more energy, more potential innovations and better products in the future.
On the basis of not having the 11th Xuanyuan Award model of the year, we put forward the "Xuanyuan Ten Questions":
Jia Ke said that the "Ten Questions of Xuanyuan" has put forward a big "question mark" for China automobile industry, which is a question mark at the peak.
"On the new track of new energy intelligent networked cars, we are the vanguard in the world. In a sense, we still pursued Tesla, followed the opportunity very closely, and made many innovations in application. Today, many of our cars have far exceeded the previous standards. We climbed from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside. Can we climb the peak again? We may need to answer ‘ Xuanyuan Ten Questions ’ . This is also an inspiration left to us by the car vacancy in the 11th Xuanyuan Award. "
In essence, the "Xuanyuan Ten Questions" is exactly what China automobile industry needs to think calmly in the fierce competition and high involution.
This year is the 11th Xuanyuan Award and the beginning of a new decade. Jia Ke said: "I hope that in the new decade, the Xuanyuan Award will accompany China’s automobile industry not only to change lanes and overtake, but also to better promote the development of the world’s automobile industry on the new car track."
The new decade of Xuanyuan Award also needs the continued support of partners.
Xuanyuan Award has been attached to Wuhan Economic Development Zone for three years, which also witnessed the extraordinary development of Wuhan Economic Development Zone for three years. In his speech, Liu Maohua, member of the Working Committee of Wuhan Economic Development Zone and deputy director of the Management Committee, sincerely invited entrepreneurs to build a new highland of the automobile industry with Chegu of China. "We will provide the best policy, the best service and the best environment to support enterprises to grow and develop in Chegu, China, and create brilliance together."
Xuanyuan Award and Daan Center have been cooperating since 2015. The location of this Xuanyuan Award evaluation activity is the intelligent networked automobile test plant of Daan Center, which provides a solid foundation for the evaluation of Xuanyuan Award. Wang Jin, general manager of Daan Center, said in his speech: "Daan and Xuanyuan Prize have witnessed the decade of intelligent development of new energy in China, and hope to jointly open a new decade of intelligent networking to the third space."
Xuanyuan Award has an independent observer, which is a unique feature that distinguishes Xuanyuan Award from other awards. Since the sixth Xuanyuan Award, Xuanyuan Award has introduced an independent observer mechanism to further increase the transparency of the selection and ensure the fairness and justice of the award. At the awarding ceremony, Li Jingwen, the manager of Ernst & Young Huaming Certified Public Accountants (special general partnership), read the notarized words and opened the password box for storing the award list on the spot. (Source: China Automobile Industry Annual Contribution Award — — Xuanyuan Award)
The following is the list of winners of the 11th Xuanyuan Award in 2024:
Nominated model of the year
Zhiji LS7
Reason for winning: With elegant interior and exterior design and the perceived quality of luxury materials, a high-end new energy SUV with interior and exterior features has been built.
Gaohe HiPhi Y
Reason for winning the prize: It not only integrates the excellent genes of family products, but also shows good maneuverability, so that the brand provides consumers with a unique product experience in the new price range.
Extreme krypton x
Reason for winning: Following the brand’s car-making quality and driving pleasure, and creating a boutique small SUV with exquisite interior space.
Guangzhou Automobile Chuanqi New Energy E9
Reasons for winning the prize: It not only realized the overall transformation of corporate brand to new energy, but also promoted the development of PHEV technology in MPV market with independent innovation technology.
Weipai Gaoshan DHT-PHEV
Reason for winning: With its original flat floor design, it provides consumers with a high-end new energy MPV with comfortable driving and large space experience.
Haobo GT
Award-winning reason: It provides a cool and fun electric car for young elite consumers with the shape of a sports car with scissors doors.
Haval Raptors
Award-winning reason: In view of the strong demand change of market consumers for personalized products, a "square shell" light off-road product was built with solid technology.
SAIC-GM-Wuling Baojun Yunduo
Reasons for winning the prize: unique shape, emphasizing space and comfort, and achieving high-level intelligent driving assistance within 150,000 yuan.
Geely Yinhe L7
Reason for winning the prize: As a work of Geely’s transformation into a new energy source, it not only has distinctive family product characteristics, but also has a high price-performance ratio.
Wen Jie Xin M7
Reason for winning the prize: deeply binding Huawei’s ability and reputation, it has achieved a substantial increase in sales in the market through the annual change.
Feifan F7
Reason for winning the prize: It provides exquisite value choices for consumers in terms of design, quality, control and comfort.
Second, the special prize
Excellent iteration award — — Xinlantu dreamer
Reason for winning: This year’s product insists on continuous improvement in terms of chassis adjustment, interior perceived quality, and cockpit experience, which not only greatly improves the product experience compared with the previous year’s model, but also makes people feel refreshed, and drives the brand sales to rise with new product strength.
Brand promotion award — — Nezha s
Reasons for winning the prize: The product concept of equal rights in science and technology not only provides a value choice for more young people to realize their dream of sports cars, but also successfully helps the brand to break the inherent cognition of consumers and create a brand-new corporate brand image with brand-new products.
Rookie Award — — Jiyue 01
Reason for winning: This brand-new brand-new product shows its edge in the aspects of intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving and dynamic performance. At the same time, it still has more room for expansion and imagination in the Internet ecology and future product form, which deserves more expectations.
Scene Innovation Award — — Jihu automobile koala
Reasons for winning the prize: I really practiced the concept of defining a car in a scene, thought deeply in many sub-scenes such as maternal and child, parent-child and female, and carefully explored the user experience and functional demands, which provided a good reference sample for the diversification and customization of the market.
Third, the Top10 model
Ideality L7
Award-winning reason: deeply inherited the characteristics of brand family products and the concept of user scenario definition, successfully met the needs of brand-new markets and brand-new consumers with unique product development concepts, and achieved market sales success.
Weilai ES6
Reasons for winning the prize: the technology is solid, restrained and convergent, but it continues to improve and improve rhythmically. In the fierce market competition, it always maintains its own brand style, luxurious style and accurate crowd positioning, showing the uniqueness of products and brands.
Jietu traveler
Reason for winning: As an attempt to break into a new category, the brand not only has a high degree of product definition and design completion, but also creates a unique experience for light off-road, travel+and other sub-scenes, such as supporting external expansion of hardware and in-vehicle health inspection.
Tucki G6
Reason for winning the prize: Taking intelligent driving as the core breakthrough point, on the basis of ensuring the user experience and perceived value, the successful subtraction provided consumers and the market with a smart new energy vehicle with better quality-price ratio, and achieved good market sales.
MG Cyberster
Reason for winning the prize: This product pays tribute to the classics, and in the new era of intelligent, electric and new energy, it faces the domestic and international markets with its unique product definition, product design and atmosphere creation, showing the confidence and ability of China car enterprises to build a good sports car.
Warrior 917
Reasons for winning the prize: The combination of off-road, intelligence, new energy, customized modification and other elements has redefined the new luxury off-road category and new species, and demonstrated solid technical strength and product performance in two different scenes of daily driving and hard-core off-road.
Lingke 08 EM-P
Reason for winning the prize: Based on the original product style, the brand-new power form and original vehicle-machine interconnection ecology not only realized the brand’s transformation to the era of intelligent new energy, but also won the recognition of consumers with excellent product experience.
Deep blue S7i
Award-winning reason: With youthful interior and exterior styling design, good perceived quality, human-computer interaction and the third space design of the new power of building cars on a par, a high-end new energy vehicle with high price-performance ratio has been created again.
Lan tu Zhu guang PHEV
Reasons for winning the prize: positioning the executive car in the new energy era, and fully meeting the needs of market segments and unique scene definitions with good design, perceived quality of materials, space and ride comfort, and making positive attempts in the field of independent new energy executive cars.
SAIC-GM-Wuling Binguo
Reason for winning the prize: With a very cost-effective price and good product modeling and perceived quality of interior and exterior decoration, it not only provides consumers with a fashionable and convenient electric scooter, but also promotes the brand image of enterprises in the small electric vehicle market segment.
