GAC Welcomes 30 Million User Milestone, Technology Refreshes for a New Journey

From thousands of selections to millions of trusts, every choice is the best testimony to brand growth. On July 16, the GAC Group 30 Million User Gratitude Ceremony was grandly held at the GAC Trumpchi factory. Government and enterprise leaders, industry giants, industry chain partners, domestic and overseas owners, media, and employee representatives gathered on site to jointly witness the highly significant 30 million whole vehicle delivery milestone in GAC's development history, unlocking a brand new chapter of high-quality development of Chinese car brands.

[Meeting Guests Witness GAC Welcoming 30 Million User Milestone Moment]

After 29 years of hard work, GAC has progressed from the first whole vehicle rolled off the line to a cumulative 30 million whole vehicles delivered. The digital leap is not only a breakthrough in scale but also an accumulation of reputation from millions of users. This milestone is not only proof of GAC's adherence to the original quality intention and accelerated smart new energy transformation, but also a vivid vignette of the Chinese automotive industry moving from scale expansion to value leap.

This ceremony showed GAC's strong transformation vitality and global strength in the form of all-domain linkage. At the event, GAC's multiple global production bases were linked via cloud, and GAC Honda P7, GAC Toyota bZ7, Qijing GT7, GAC AION N60, GAC Hyper S600, and many other new energy models rolled off the line sequentially, fully presenting GAC's full-coverage, diversified smart new energy product matrix.

[GAC Smart New Energy Matrix Shines on Stage]

The highly anticipated 30 millionth whole vehicle—Right-hand drive version GAC Trumpchi M8 PHEV officially debuted and rolled off the line, highlighting GAC's firm layout in the global market. GAC Group Chairman Feng Xingya handed over the new car keys to Thai owner Tony Jaa. This two-way rush across mountains and seas vividly interprets GAC brand's hardcore strength and warmth based in China and going global.

[GAC's 30 Millionth Whole Vehicle - Right-Hand Drive GAC Trumpchi M8 PHEV Rolls off the Production Line]

[Feng Xingya (Left) Delivers New Car Keys to Thai Owner Tony Jaa (Right)]

Solid product layout boosts steady sales growth. Data shows that in the first half of this year, GAC Group's cumulative sales reached 773,100 vehicles, a year-on-year growth of 2.35%; new energy vehicle sales skyrocketed by 68.8% year-on-year, highlighting transformation results. The overseas market also saw explosive growth, with export volume surpassing 120,000, a year-on-year increase of as high as 132%, running out a steady upward growth curve during the industry's deep adjustment period.

"Quality is the bottom line GAC will never compromise." Deeply cultivating the industry for nearly 30 years, GAC has always adhered to the core philosophy of "Quality First", integrating Honda's Total Quality Management, Toyota's Lean Production Model, combined with local market characteristics to build an exclusive integrated innovative quality management system, ensuring quality runs through the entire R&D, production, and delivery process.

[Witnesses of Important Nodes in GAC Development History Share GAC's Story of Walking Together with Quality]

["National Distinguished Engineer Team" GAC Powertrain Independent R&D Team Shares R&D Innovation Process]

[GAC Styling Design Team Shares Design Innovation Process]

Strict quality control standards are the core guarantee of quality. All new cars of the GAC series must undergo "Five Highs, One Mountain, One Dust" extreme environment testing, complete "Two Winters, One Summer" full-scenario on-site road testing, pass 12 major categories of whole vehicle verification and over 1,500 items of strict verification, comprehensively adapt to complex road conditions and diverse travel scenarios. Relying on the global first new energy vehicle lighthouse factory - GAC AION Smart Eco Factory, with a digital, intelligent production system, achieving stable and controllable quality of mass-produced models.

[GAC AION Smart Eco Factory]

In the field of safety technology, GAC has built all-around protection barriers. The self-developed Star Spirit Safety Guardian System covers smart chassis, active/passive safety, battery safety, and smart driving four dimensions. Eight key systems adopt double redundancy design, cumulatively avoiding 6.28 million potential travel risks, protecting the travel safety of nearly 2 million users. The Ace Bulletproof Battery has cumulatively loaded 1.5 million units, with safe driving mileage exceeding 160 billion kilometers. At the same time, the industry's first brand-owned "Three Responsibilities" policy was launched, proactively covering user pain points of batteries and intelligent driving assistance to completely eliminate user concerns about vehicle use.

[GAC Star Spirit Safety Guardian System]

Always being user-centric is the core code for GAC to continuously lead. Adhering to the corporate philosophy of "People First, Integrity as Path, Innovation as Priority", GAC integrates user needs into brand development genes, building a full-cycle, full-scenario, closed-loop user service system.

[GAC "All Users Speaking" Event Site]

To listen to real user voices, GAC regularly carries out "All Users Speaking" activities, facing user demands, absorbing user suggestions, through an exclusive user insight department, achieving responses for every user issue and implementation for every matter. Service channels continue to sink, with plans to add 1,000 county-level authorized stores this year, breaking through grassroots service barriers; relying on the "Super Butler" service system, achieving 5-second quick response and 2-hour request completion, greatly improving service efficiency.

Energy replenishment ecology continues to improve. GAC has built a "9 Verticals and 10 Horizontals" national energy replenishment network, covering 31 provinces and 213 cities nationwide, owning over 27,000 charging piles and over 20,000 supercharging piles, achieving "within 1 kilometer straight line must have station" in core urban areas, bringing convenient and efficient energy replenishment experience for new energy users.

[GAC Energy "9 Verticals 10 Horizontals" Energy Replenishment Network]

To thank 30 million users for their company all the way, GAC officially launched the "30 Million Vehicle Delivery · Refresh Gratitude Season". Subsidiaries GAC Honda, GAC Toyota, GAC Trumpchi, GAC AION, GAC Hyper, and Qijing Auto six major brands simultaneously launched exclusive benefit policies for new purchase, trade-in, and add-on purchase, returning million users' trust with full sincerity.

[GAC Group 30 Million Vehicle Delivery · Refresh Gratitude Season Officially Launched]

30 million is a milestone, and even more a brand new starting point. Based on the brand new development stage, GAC takes technological innovation as the core driving force, continuously deepening powertrain, three-electric, and intelligent connected core technologies, accelerating transformation into an ecological technology enterprise.

In the powertrain field, the GAC Star Source Power System covers three technology routes: Extended Range, Plug-in Hybrid, and Super Twin Engine. Undergone 100,000 hours of bench testing and over 10 million km of whole vehicle verification, full-scenario performance is stable and powerful, bringing efficient and worry-free travel experience for users. In the three-electric field, GAC continues to tackle industry pain points, built a full solid-state battery pilot production line, the self-developed Quark electric drive motor efficiency breakthrough 99%, reaching industry top levels.

[GAC Star Source Power Makes Users Choose "No More Compromises"]

In the intelligent field, the Star Spirit architecture comprehensively iterates, connecting driving, cockpit, powertrain, chassis, and other six major core systems, whole vehicle comprehensive performance increased by 40%; the Galaxy Smart Cockpit achieves end-cloud integration, building a humanized, intelligent mobile travel space. Meanwhile, GAC partners with Huawei, CATL, Tencent, Alibaba, and other industry leading enterprises to jointly build an AI intelligent travel ecology, continuously unlocking new possibilities for future travel.

Deepening R&D technology, building solid innovation confidence. Currently, GAC's cumulative R&D investment exceeds 62 billion yuan, assembling a global R&D team of over 6,800 people, continuously empowering product upgrades and experience upgrades with hardcore technology. In the future, GAC will adhere to quality original intention, deepen user value, persist in technological innovation, accelerate global layout, forge new tracks in intelligence, green, and globalization with a steady posture, walking shoulder to shoulder with 10 million users, embarking on the next brand new journey.