On August 28, at the Foton Motor Brand Night, the sixth-generation all-new intelligent heavy-duty truck, Auman Galaxy 9, was officially unveiled globally. Designed from the perspective of global users and the future development trends of heavy-duty trucks, this vehicle is based on the industry-first Galaxy Intelligent Architecture, custom-developed to elevate Chinese heavy-duty trucks to a new standard of quality with world-leading innovative technology. The new truck will offer multiple technical routes, including oil, gas, hydrogen, electric, and hybrid options. Its exterior design breaks away from tradition, the interior features high-end, personalized configurations, and its power performance and intelligent applications reach global standards. The arrival of Auman Galaxy 9 promises an unprecedented user experience for truck drivers around the world, injecting new vitality into the global heavy-duty truck market.
Aesthetic Design: A Fusion of Technology and Art
As the needs of users evolve and operating scenarios diversify, the design of heavy-duty trucks has become a key factor in enhancing transportation image and efficiency. The all-new Auman Galaxy 9 breaks away from traditional truck design with its Galaxy aesthetic, shaping the future of heavy-duty truck technology. The entire vehicle adheres to the 1:0.618 golden ratio aesthetic design, featuring a “U”-shaped star ring front face, paired with a minimalist front cover and integrated light strip design. Not only does this boost the vehicle’s visual appeal, giving users a sense of pride, but it also aids in energy efficiency, enhances cab safety, and facilitates maintenance.
The front face is adorned with a sleek, continuous light array that offers a unique visual appeal during nighttime driving. The lights incorporate headlamps, indicators, fog lights, reverse lights, turn signals, and brake lights, significantly increasing illumination range and angle, balancing aesthetics and functionality, ensuring safer and more convenient night driving. The vehicle also utilizes aerodynamic design, achieving a drag coefficient of ≤0.348, 12% lower than traditional designs, outperforming similar models by 0.1, effectively reducing energy consumption. The Auman Galaxy 9’s distinctive design adds a touch of technological brilliance to the global heavy-duty truck industry.
Premium Interior: A Personalized, Comfortable Mobile Home
For truck drivers, long-distance journeys can be monotonous and tiring, making a comfortable and convenient interior essential. Taking into account the modern user’s pursuit of quality, the interior of the Auman Galaxy 9 is designed with high-end materials and layout, creating a refined and comfortable mobile home. The interior incorporates technological elements with the traditional “Kun” cultural connotation, using dual-curved lines to construct a highly inclusive cabin environment, combined with personalized color schemes to create a unique, elegant, and cozy atmosphere.
The cabin is equipped with features like marble-textured instrument panels, real wood flooring, and an oversized panoramic skylight framed in an octagonal trendy border, allowing users to gaze at the vast starry sky, creating a sense of ceremony and ambiance. The cabin includes an original mobile phone holder and a 12.3+12.3-inch ultra-wide dual-screen setup, offering three UI interfaces that users can customize, providing clear visuals and easy operation. Space is another area where the Auman Galaxy 9 excels, offering a leading-class comfortable experience with an interior space of 2125x2450x1538mm, paired with zero-gravity luxury seats and a hidden automatic air conditioning system to ease the fatigue of long journeys.
When it’s time to rest, users can enjoy the industry’s widest bed space at 1240mm, within a cabin treated with special sealing technology for an ultra-quiet environment of <51dB, akin to the silence of a library, or the pleasure of listening to symphonic music in Vienna’s concert halls, making every transport journey enjoyable. Whether in layout design or premium features, the Auman Galaxy 9 constructs a “comprehensive living cabin” for users, elevating their operations with a sense of quality.
Ultimate Power Performance: Superior Driving Experience
With the advancement of the “Dual Carbon” goals and the transportation industry’s shift towards cost efficiency, heavy-duty trucks are evolving towards high efficiency and energy saving, with new energy trucks becoming the future of efficient transport. To meet market demands, the Auman Galaxy 9 is custom-developed on the pioneering Galaxy Intelligent Architecture, offering users more energy-efficient, efficient, and reliable driving control. The all-electric version of the Auman Galaxy 9, developed on Auman’s dedicated new energy platform, applies Auman’s innovative three-section integrated technology, with battery configurations ranging from 400-1000kWh, paired with high-efficiency, lightweight electric drive axles, integrated intelligent heat pump technology, and a full-domain high-voltage silicon carbide control module, all operated via an 8-in-1 self-control system, delivering exceptional performance.
Thanks to these technologies, the Auman Galaxy 9 features a low-maintenance, low-loss electric drive axle, achieving motor efficiency of up to 97.5%, inverter efficiency of 99.6%, and a weight reduction of 350kg. The battery can support megawatt-level charging, with a 30%-80% charge taking just 18 minutes. It also adopts an intelligent dual-source heat pump integration, offering a low-energy consumption, high-integration, intelligent solution. Additionally, the fuel and gas versions of the Auman Galaxy 9 incorporate the latest “Super Powertrain 5.0” integrated technology system, reducing fuel and gas consumption by 5%. In essence, the proprietary innovative technology embedded in the Auman Galaxy 9 is tailored to meet user needs, offering logistics users higher operational efficiency and greater profitability.
Foton has also deeply integrated a user-centric design philosophy into the Auman Galaxy 9, enhancing safety, health, corrosion resistance, and weight reduction. In terms of safety, the vehicle features a high-strength body structure, with collision energy compression capabilities reaching 16 tons, far exceeding international standards. For health, it employs passenger car-grade air quality design standards, with odors rated ≤3.5, ensuring the health and well-being of drivers. In lightweight design, the vehicle utilizes 45 new materials and 56 new processes, achieving the lowest weight in its class for similar models. Additionally, with 58 corrosion-resistant designs and 12 process improvements, corrosion resistance is increased by 30%. The Galaxy 9 offers users more than just a “moving vehicle” but rather an experience of “driving art.”
Flexible Smart Brain: Doubling Safety and Entertainment
Amid the wave of intelligent technology, the Auman Galaxy 9 delves deeply into long-term technological applications, again focusing on user needs, fully covering the three major application scenarios of “driving, resting, and vehicle management,” achieving full interaction and control between the driver and the vehicle. The new truck features 28+ intelligent driving functions, tested over 2 million kilometers of road testing and validated through 500,000 scenarios, ensuring comprehensive operational safety.
Beyond intelligent driving, the Auman Galaxy 9 offers a more flexible interactive experience through technological enhancements. The intelligent system includes voice interaction functions, making long-distance control more convenient for users. The in-vehicle system covers over 800 infotainment features and more than 400 data interconnect functions, making transportation more enjoyable and operations more relaxed.
Over the years, Auman heavy-duty trucks have consistently provided superior products and services to users worldwide, supported by global-leading vehicle R&D capabilities and the application of multiple key technologies in chassis, powertrain, and new energy. Particularly in the automatic transmission market, Auman has ranked first in sales for several consecutive years. Now, with the global debut of the sixth-generation all-new intelligent heavy-duty truck series—Auman Galaxy 9—its world-class quality is evident, whether in interior and exterior design, energy efficiency, reliability, or intelligent applications. As the new truck is officially launched, Auman will further solidify its position as an industry leader, leveraging its benchmark technology to continually produce “best-sellers” in the global heavy-duty truck market. The future is full of promise!
