Amid the global energy transition and the "dual-carbon" goals, China's new energy commercial vehicle market is experiencing explosive growth. Industry data reveals that China's new energy commercial vehicle sales surged by 125.8% year-over-year in Q1 2025, with new energy heavy-duty truck sales skyrocketing by 157%, emerging as the brightest growth driver in an otherwise sluggish commercial vehicle market.
As a leader in intelligent driving solutions, JIMU Intelligent leverages its self-developed L2-L4 full-stack technologies to deliver comprehensive solutions covering regulatory compliance, advanced safety, and autonomous driving upgrades. JIMU Intelligent now commands a dominant market share in China's new energy commercial vehicle ADAS sector, redefining industry standards for intelligence and safety.
Redefining Commercial Vehicle Safety with Technological Innovation JIMU Intelligent pioneered the L2.1 intelligent driving system, a groundbreaking integration of Level-4 foundational technology and Level-2 active safety features. By applying L4 advancements to enhance L2.1 performance, JIMU intelligent driving solutions help to promote the extreme safety, cost, and efficiency.
JIMU Z1 Intelligent-Driving DCU
With proprietary core technologies, JIMU offers the industry’s most robust product portfolio, driving commercial vehicle safety and efficiency through:
Comprehensive Product Range: Full coverage of ADAS camera, surround-view monitoring, automatic emergency braking (AEB), blind-spot detection, driver monitoring, intelligent connectivity, and cabin-drive integration.
Leading Technical Indicators：AEB false trigger rate: <1 incident per 100,000 km (5x stricter than industry standards)；Vehicle AEB effectiveness: >90%; pedestrian AEB effectiveness: >50%, significantly reducing accident rates.
Superior Cost-Effectiveness: Innovative cost optimization delivers industry-leading value.
JIMU Intelligent: Trusted by China's Top-Tier Commercial Vehicle Manufacturers JIMU’s technological prowess has earned widespread recognition from industry leaders in China:
Supplies top 3 new energy heavy-duty truck manufacturers, covering 60% of China's top 10 OEMs.
53.3% market share in China's 2024 new energy heavy-duty truck ADAS market.
40% coverage among China's top 10 commercial vehicle startups.
Driving the Future of Intelligent, Connected, and Sustainable Mobility Supported by China's policies and surging demand in urban logistics, cold chain transport, and construction, the new energy commercial vehicle market is poised for unprecedented growth. JIMU Intelligent remains committed to deepening strategic partnerships with OEMs, accelerating the mass adoption of intelligent driving technologies, and empowering clients to lead in a safer, more efficient, and carbon-neutral era.
About JIMU Intelligent
JIMU Intelligent is a leading AI enterprise dedicated to the research, development, and application of intelligent driving technologies. The company is committed to providing L2-L4 level intelligent driving solutions to global OEMs, insurance companies, and others. Its goal is to utilize leading technology to reduce road casualties and property losses caused by traffic accidents, contributing to the global Vision Zero.
On August 23, Wuhan JIMU Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "JIMU Intelligent"), a leading provider of intelligent driving solutions, hosted an open day for its commercial vehicle intelligent driving products. Attendees included Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Dongfeng Xinjiang Automobile, Dongfeng Huashen, SANY Heavy Truck, Yutong, and Yukai Chuangling, among others. The event showcased the company's latest intelligent driving R&D achievements and unveiled the industry's first mass-production-ready integrated cabin-drive domain control system for commercial vehicles, the Z1.
The JIMU Z1 integrated cabin-drive domain control solution addresses the core needs of commercial vehicles, including safety, regulation compliance, and entertainment. Based on an integrated domain control design, it combines intelligent driving, smart cabin, infotainment, and digital instrument cluster systems to provide drivers with a safer, smarter, and more convenient driving experience.
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Focusing on Core Needs of Commercial Vehicles, Meeting Regulatory, Safety, Monitoring, and Entertainment Requirements
The JIMU Z1 integrated cabin-drive domain control system focuses on the core needs of commercial vehicles, meeting regulatory, safety, monitoring, and entertainment requirements.
In terms of intelligent driving, the Z1 utilizes the company's self-developed, leading, and mass-production-verified intelligent driving algorithms. In addition to meeting regulatory requirements such as FCW (GB/T 33577-2017), LDW (JT/T 883-2014), AEB (GB/T 38186-2019, JT/T 1242-2019), AVM surround view (T/ITS 0111-2021), and in-cabin monitoring (GB/T 19056-2021), it also supports advanced driver assistance features such as ACC/LKA, BSD blind spot collision warning, rear collision warning, DMS/OMS monitoring, in-cabin monitoring, DOW door opening assistance, and lane change assistance.
In terms of smart cabin, the system supports three 2K+ high-definition LCD displays and integrates conventional functions such as digital instrument clusters, radio, MP3, video, and online radio.
In terms of perception and interaction, the system offers dual-screen interaction, voice + gesture multi-modal interaction, and synchronized perception of both in-cabin and out-of-cabin scenarios. It can also provide customized services for more specific scenarios, such as remote fault diagnosis, one-click maintenance, and smart charging.
Functional Diagram of JIMU Z1 Integrated Cabin-Drive Domain Control
Additionally, the JIMU Z1 integrated cabin-drive domain control system offers high, medium, and low configurations to meet the needs of different vehicle models and market segments. It can be widely applied in heavy trucks, light trucks, buses, and construction machinery.
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Single SoC-Based Integrated Cabin-Drive Domain Control Design Reduces System Costs and Enhances Functionality
Currently, mainstream commercial vehicle cabin-drive solutions are based on separate components and systems, using multiple discrete SoCs or FPGA systems for functions such as forward-facing cameras, surround-view ECUs, infotainment ECUs, and instrument cluster ECUs. This architecture leads to higher system costs, isolated designs that prevent resource sharing (sensors, storage, computing power, communication), and poor upgradability due to subsystem interdependencies.
JIMU's integrated cabin-drive domain control solution is based on an integrated domain control design, enabling higher performance, better interaction, and lower costs for intelligent driving and smart cabin functionalities through on-chip high-speed bus communication.
The Z1 domain control solution significantly enhances system functionality by sharing resources such as sensors, computing power, storage, and networks. For example, by leveraging AI NPU time-sharing and sensor resource sharing, the Z1 greatly improves computing power utilization, expands perception range, increases the accuracy of perception algorithms, and enhances the safety level of commercial vehicles.
Moreover, real-time interaction and rapid response are crucial for intelligent driving and smart cabin functions. The domain control system improves data transmission speed and efficiency through on-chip communication and shared memory, reducing communication delays and providing smoother interaction and faster driving assistance decisions.
2) Ultra-High Integration Simplifies Electronic Architecture and Reduces System Costs
The Z1 domain control solution implements multiple functions, including intelligent driving and smart cabin, on a single processor. This high level of integration simplifies the electronic architecture and significantly reduces overall system costs.
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Creating a "Human-Vehicle-Road" Data Loop to Support Full Lifecycle Digital Management of Commercial Vehicles
As production tools, digital management of commercial vehicles is crucial for improving operational efficiency and enhancing safety. The JIMU Z1 integrated cabin-drive solution establishes a complete data chain from data collection - data processing - data upload - OTA upgrades - HMI interaction, creating a "human-vehicle-road" data loop that better serves the needs of all stakeholders in the commercial vehicle ecosystem, supporting digital management throughout the vehicle's lifecycle—from production and sales to operation.
The Z1 integrated cabin-drive solution provides multi-dimensional, raw connected data, including vehicle location, mileage, historical faults, vehicle diagnostics, driver status, and in-cabin/out-cabin video and images. The variety, richness, and real-time nature of the data are significantly enhanced. JIMU Intelligent has developed several innovative features based on cross-domain data fusion:
Creating an OTA upgrade loop integrating perception, fusion, decision-making, diagnostics, and HMI, enabling convenient and synchronized multi-module upgrades. This allows for rapid response to market demands and regulatory changes, ensuring timely introduction of new features and improvements.
Developing a risk management system based on out-cabin perception, in-cabin perception, and vehicle diagnostics, providing full-process risk monitoring and management before, during, and after trips. This enables comprehensive, real-time monitoring and management of commercial vehicles, enhancing safety and operational efficiency.
JIMU Intelligent's pioneering fault tracking and maintenance platform receives and deciphers vehicle fault codes, providing timely voice alerts to drivers. It also establishes a vehicle after-sales management response mechanism, optimizing vehicle quality, maintenance, repair, and after-sales conditions throughout the vehicle's lifecycle. This minimizes the risk of vehicle faults escalating, improves the driver experience, and extends the vehicle's service life.
The Z1 has already generated strong interest and attention from customers at the event. Several OEMs have expressed intentions to collaborate, with the system expected to be deployed in a flagship model of a leading new energy commercial vehicle OEM by the end of this year.
The Most Comprehensive Commercial Vehicle Solution Portfolio, Leading the Evolution and Upgrade of Intelligent Driving Products with Superior Product Capabilities
In addition to the Z1, JIMU Intelligent showcased its latest intelligent driving technologies and a full range of commercial vehicle product portfolios. These products lead the industry in terms of product categories, performance metrics, quality, cost-effectiveness, and regulatory compliance, driving the evolution and upgrade of intelligent driving products for commercial vehicles with superior capabilities.
JIMU Intelligent has been deeply involved in the R&D and application of intelligent driving technologies for commercial vehicles for over a decade, gaining profound insights into the commercial vehicle market. We understand that the mission of commercial vehicles is not only efficient transportation but also safe arrival. Every departure carries countless expectations, and every journey is a matter of life and death. Therefore, in the pursuit of intelligent driving, safety remains our bottom line and an unbreakable red line.
In the future, JIMU Intelligent will continue to uphold its development philosophy of "achieving zero road fatalities worldwide," prioritizing safety as the primary goal. We will deepen our collaboration with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain, contributing to the creation of a smarter, safer, and more economical commercial vehicle ecosystem.
On April 12, Dongfeng Motor Corporation successfully held the launch event for its new generation of specialized vehicle chassis. JIMU Intelligent, as an important strategic partner of Dongfeng in the fields of intelligent driving and intelligent connectivity, was invited to attend.
The photo shows Zhang Jiaxin, Party Secretary of Dongfeng Cummins (left), and Cheng Jianwei, Chairman of JIMU Intelligent (right), jointly unveiling the new vehicle.
At the event, Dongfeng Light Duty Vehicle, in collaboration with JIMU Intelligent, unveiled for the first time a human-vehicle-road safety management solution that integrates "intelligent terminals" and a "big data risk control cloud platform", aimed at enhancing road safety and fleet digital management. This initiative is designed to ensure driver safety, improve enterprise digital management levels, and help companies reduce costs and increase efficiency.
In terms of road safety, leveraging JIMU's self-developed lightweight deep learning algorithms, a platform-based hardware solution has been developed that supports forward collision warning, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking, and driver fatigue and distraction monitoring. This significantly reduces casualties and property losses.
In terms of fleet digital management, the solution provides an integrated safety management approach combining "hardware + platform + operations". Through platform monitoring, device warnings, and AI + human intervention, it offers a multi-layered risk warning and handling mechanism, enabling efficient and low-cost risk intervention. Additionally, it provides comprehensive driver evaluation, accident investigation and evidence collection, fleet intelligent reporting, and operational optimization analysis, helping fleets enhance their digital management capabilities and achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
Notably, the two parties have also developed an "industry-unique" vehicle fault monitoring service. If a vehicle experiences a fault during operation, the vehicle will issue real-time warnings and fault announcements. Simultaneously, the fault information will be uploaded to the cloud platform, enabling timely response and optimized supervision of the vehicle's condition, ensuring 24/7 road safety.
This strategic cooperation is expected to fully leverage Dongfeng's mature vehicle manufacturing experience and JIMU's leading intelligent driving and connectivity technologies, creating high-quality digital automotive products and services. This will provide car owners with a more safe, intelligent, and efficient driving experience.
