As the “Eldest Son of China’s Automobile Industry”, FAW Trucks always keeps in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest entrustment of “grasping the key core technologies in our own hands and building up the national automotive brands”. It takes innovation – driven development as the main engine of enterprise growth and responds to the changing times with an innovative layout. In 2020, FAW Trucks released the “13586” scientific and technological development plan, establishing the “Jiefang Chuangling” technology brand to drive innovation. It focuses on three major technical fields: new energy, intelligent networking, and traditional technologies, and creates three independent innovation technology routes: “Blueway”, “Smartway”, and “Benefitway”, achieving a series of fruitful independent and controllable technological achievements.
Blueway Technology Drives Green Development
FAW Trucks actively implements the national “Double Carbon” strategy. In September 2021, it released the “15333” new – energy strategy, sounding the “bugle” for the transformation to new energy. In recent years, FAW Trucks has continuously adhered to the development of electrification and low – carbonization, deeply understood and grasped the development concept of “resource – saving and environment – friendly”, and adhered to the principles of platformization, modularization, generalization, standardization, and serialization. Focusing on power batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, electric drive systems, and vehicle controllers, it has developed key core technologies such as flexible multi – platform vehicle architecture technology, system integration technology, and energy management technology, and spared no effort in creating a clean and efficient product portfolio of pure – electric, hybrid, and hydrogen – fuel – cell vehicles.
Under the guidance of the “Jiefang Blueway” technology brand, FAW Trucks has accelerated the exploration of zero – carbon fuel technology, achieving the industry’s first demonstration operation of a heavy – duty hydrogen – powered vehicle, with a smooth operation of over 11,000 km.
In the field of new – energy vehicle technology, FAW Trucks has achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in core technologies, creating a differential vehicle and a fully – independent core assembly technology platform. The pure – electric tractor has reached the industry – leading level in terms of power consumption and lightweight, and the efficiency of the fully – independent medium – sized electric drive axle has reached the world – class level.
Smartway Technology Leads the Intelligent Transformation
Facing the trend of intelligent development in transportation and logistics, with the development concept of “intelligent globalization”, FAW Trucks focuses on the scenario requirements of intelligent vehicle manufacturing, use, maintenance, and repair. It centers on vehicle perception, decision – making, and execution, and collaboratively develops key core technologies such as intelligent driving and vehicle networking to build a global interconnection system.
Guided by the “Jiefang Smartway” technology brand, through continuous technological innovation and accurate market insights, FAW Trucks has achieved multiple breakthroughs in the field of intelligent driving. At present, FAW Trucks’ self – developed high – end heavy – duty trucks with L2 – level intelligent driving have completed verification and been launched into the market, reaching the world – class level; the L2++ – level intelligent vehicles have completed real – vehicle function verification; the application software of L4 – level factory logistics vehicles is 100% self – developed and will achieve demonstration operation by the end of 2025. In terms of vehicle – networking technology, FAW Trucks’ intelligent diagnosis and repair service has been provided more than 1.5 million times, leading the industry; the big – data platform has upgraded 4 functions, broken through 6 key technologies, with an analysis accuracy rate of over 93%, and constructed an intelligent service system covering the entire vehicle life cycle.
Benefitway Technology Consolidates the Foundation of Quality
In the field of traditional vehicles, FAW Trucks has always been guided by user value. Led by the “Jiefang Benefitway” technology brand, it deeply implements the development concept of “creating value for users”. It is committed to continuously improving users’ perceived quality, usage experience, and benefits. Focusing on six major performance aspects such as vehicle reliability, comfort, and convenience, it has developed key core technologies such as high – reliability and durability technology and systematic fuel – saving technology, sparing no effort in creating high – quality products that are more economical, safe, reliable, and comfortable.
In November 2024, the J7 Chuangling Edition was grandly launched in Guangzhou, fully demonstrating FAW Trucks’ pursuit of high – quality products. Its intelligent control of the power domain, the lowest wind resistance in the same industry level, standard – equipped L2 – level intelligent driving, a B10 life of 2 million kilometers, a 1 – million – kilometer oil – change interval for the gearbox and axle, a “CN95” healthy cockpit, and an intelligent cockpit, etc., provide guarantees for Jiefang products to continue to lead and build product competitiveness.
In 2025, facing the upcoming market changes and technical challenges in the commercial vehicle industry, FAW Trucks will bravely shoulder the mission of independence, continue to deeply cultivate new – energy and intelligent technologies. Through differential product layouts and independent technical advantages, it will seize the technological high ground, enhance its core competitiveness, and unswervingly strive to become a “world – class automotive enterprise and a century – old national automotive brand”, contributing to the construction of a powerful manufacturing and transportation country.
