New Delhi: Foxconn, with its subsidiary FIH Cell Ltd, and Stellantis N.V. have entered right into a three way partnership settlement to create a brand new entity referred to as Cell Drive to ship a wise cockpit answer for automobiles. It’s going to disrupt present design conventions and foster the event of clever linked automobiles, a media launch mentioned on Tuesday.
The replace comes after a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was initially signed on Could 18, 2021.
Cell Drive can be equally owned by Stellantis and FIH. The partnership has mixed Foxconn’s capabilities in ICT {industry} and good options, with Stellantis’ experience within the automotive sector, making certain the expansion of Cell Drive, the corporate launch mentioned.
Cell Drive will concentrate on growing infotainment and telematics options in addition to a cloud service platform, which can goal to ship a complete good cockpit answer. Its roadmap of software program improvements will embrace synthetic intelligence-based purposes, navigation, voice help, e-commerce retailer operations, and cost providers integration, amongst others. The {hardware} improvements can be associated to the good cockpit and telematics field, it added.
As per the corporate, Cell Drive will be capable to create industry-leading automotive digital providers to realize a seamless person expertise in and out of doors the automobile.
Sooner or later, the good cockpit answer won’t solely be accessible to all Stellantis automobiles, but additionally to third-party automobile producers, increasing the attain and influence of the Cell Drive enterprise because it goals to be a worldwide chief in good cockpit and linked automobile options, it mentioned.
The most recent transfer follows the latest restructuring of its manufacturers’ management in India, with Nipun J Mahajan taking up as Jeep’s model head and Saurav Vatsa as head of Citroen. Mahajan had been serving because the vp of Fiat Chrysler Cars since September 2016 and Vatsa had been related to the corporate since 2018.
