9月27日下午，北京新能源汽车股份有限公司与华为技术有限公司在深圳签署战略合作协议，合作范围包括云计算、车联网、能源互联网等领域。2月，有媒体报道称华为目前正在进行无人驾驶汽车项目研究，并和清华大学进行了深度技术合作。据维基解密报道，今年7月，华为超过苹果成为全球第二大智能手机生产商。除了华为，北汽集团还与另一个手机品牌小米签订了战略合作协议。7月28日，北汽集团与小米签署了战略合作协议，据悉，双方的合作可能与智能驾驶有关。北汽发力智能驾驶的另一个大动作是斥资百亿，打造“中国硅谷”。8月14日，北汽集团党委委员、北汽新能源党委书记兼总经理郑刚对外公布了北汽新能源B轮融资获得了111.18亿元人民币的消息，远超此前预期。据悉，这笔融资将用于投资亦庄蓝谷新能源汽车科技创新中心。建成后，将涵盖整车、电池工程、电驱动工程、智能网联工程、轻量化等核心研发中心。 

BAIC signs agreement with Huawei, working on cloud computing
On Sept. 27th, BAIC BJEV, the electric vehicle unit of BAIC, signed strategic cooperation agreement with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company. The two companies will work together in such fields as cloud computing, vehicle internet and energy internet.

In February, it is reported that Huawei has been conducting research on self-driving vehicle projects and has had in-depth technical cooperation with Tsinghua University. According to Wikipedia, in July 2017, the company surpassed Apple and become the second largest smartphone manufactures in the world.

And apart from Huawei, BAIC also signed cooperation agreement with another smartphone giant in China. On July 28, the carmaker reached strategic cooperation agreement with Xiaomi to work on intelligent driving.

What’s more, BAIC’s another step on intelligent driving was to raise ten billion yuan to build China’s Silicon Valley. On August 14, Zheng Gang, General Manager of BAIC BJEV, announced that the company had managed to get 11.118 billion yuan, which was far more than expected. 

It is said that this sum of money will be invested in its new energy vehicle technology innovation center. When completed, there will be nine core R&D centers on vehicle development, battery project, electric drive project, intelligent and connected project, light-weight project etc.