Overview
- The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology granted conditional product approvals to Deep Blue SL03 and Arcfox Alpha S for defined roads in Chongqing and Beijing under a dual product‑access plus road‑trial framework.
- Huawei confirmed its Qiankun ADS supplies the L3 system on the Arcfox Alpha S, which BAIC says carries 34 sensors including three LiDARs and has logged over 800,000 kilometers of equivalent validation testing.
- Huawei auto chief Jin Yuzhi said the SL03’s L3 is capped at 50 km/h and follow‑only without lane changes, while the Arcfox solution can run up to 80 km/h on highways without a lead vehicle and can change lanes.
- BAIC plans to start L3 operations in specific scenarios in Q1 2026, and Changan targets on‑road pilots in Q1 2026 with consumer access to follow formal regulations, adding that scaling could bring L3 to roughly 150,000‑RMB models.
- New reporting points to Huawei‑organized internal L3 tests in Shenzhen using employee‑owned AITO M9 and Zun Jie S800 vehicles across about 1,000 km of city expressways, alongside an exposed in‑car L3 interface, though details are attributed to unnamed sources.