Interface News reporter | Ding Jingjing

On May 7, the interface news learned from the main line science and technology that the main line science and technology recently completed round C financing, with financing funds of hundreds of millions of yuan. The financing is a joint investment by the Industrial Capital Civil Aviation Investment Fund and the government fund Shun Venture Capital and Changzhou Bell Tower Financial Control.

In this regard, the main line of science and technology said that this round of fundraisingPlay2earnnftThe funds will promote the company's research and development and mass production in areas such as self-driving core technology, and help the company to create full-scene intelligent transportation solutions.

According to Tianyan survey, before this round of financing, the main technology has completed six rounds of financing, including iFLYTEK, GLP Yinshan Capital, Bosch Venture Capital, Lulai Capital, Zhong Ding Capital and so on.

At present, most self-driving trucks have completed round C financing. In July last year, Xijing completed an E-round financing of 600 million yuan, while Xiaoma Zhihang completed a D+ round of financing of US $100 million in October last year.

Autopilot has always been a big spender of money, and no company has yet announced a profit, financing is still an important support for autopilot to maintain research and development and operation. However, after experiencing the layoffs and failures of Embark and domestic giant smart cards of self-driving trucks in the United States last year, and Tucson's future spin-off and delisting, the "financing difficulty" has become a huge haze around the head of self-driving.

But autopilot financing seems to have picked up since the start of the year.

In March this year, Neolithic announced the completion of 600 million yuan in round C financing; Weidu Technology won 1 in Series B financing in April.Play2earnnftSince the beginning of this year, Mo Zhihang has successively completed two financing projects of more than 100 million yuan, with the B2 round of financing reaching 300 million yuan in April.

In addition, Little Horse Zhixing officially announced its listing in the United States in April. According to the incomplete statistics of the New Strategy low-speed self-driving Industry Research Institute, in April this year alone, 19 important investment and financing incidents were made public in the self-driving field, with the total amount of financing disclosed exceeding 1.8 billion yuan, most of which were in the level of 100 million yuan.

Mainline Technology, founded in 2017, is committed to the research and development of L4-level autopilot technology, providing full-scene intelligent transportation solutions and services. At present, the main line technology has joined hands with FAW Jiefang, Sinotruk, Xugong, Sany heavy truck, Foton Automobile, Beiben heavy truck and other mainstream commercial vehicle companies to launch more than 10 smart trucks.

Mainline technology mainly focuses on two major scenes of port and trunk logistics. Because of its closeness, the port scene has been recognized as one of the most likely scenarios to be unmanned. Mainline Technology has been laying out the scene since its inception. Up to now, mainline Technology has delivered more than 300 smart trucks, and Trunk Port Smart Port driverless solution has successively landed in Tianjin Port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Yantai Port, Hefei Port, CNOOC Huizhou Logistics Base and other important projects, successfully realizing commercial verification, replication and promotion.

In terms of trunk lines, mainline science and technology has obtained commercial operation licenses for self-driving trucks in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shandong, Yangtze River Delta, Inner Mongolia and other regions. Based on the Trunk Freight solution, it provides intelligent transportation services for head logistics customers such as China Reserve Zhiyun, Debang, Shentong, Shun Feng, JD.com, with a cumulative transportation mileage of more than 20 million kilometers.

Mainline technology told the interface news that the current L4 driverless truck can replace 2-3 drivers, greatly saving labor costs, and at the same time, mainline technology's self-driving trucks can save 3% and 10% of fuel consumption.

And in line with the trend of new energy in recent years, mainline technology has launched L4 self-driving electric heavy trucks and L4 self-driving hydrogen cards, and has also created an integrated charging and recharging solution for green smart ports, smart cities, smart highways, smart parks and other application scenarios to provide a full set of artificial intelligence solutions.

In addition to the two subdivided scenarios of trunk logistics and port, mainline technology also intends to expand new application scenarios. Zhang Tianlei, CEO of mainline technology, said it is possible for mainline technology to enter the urban night distribution scene and try to develop special self-driving vehicles such as garbage cleaning. At present, it has been in contact with relevant customers.