Renault Group and Google Accelerate Partnership to Develop the Vehicle of Tomorrow and Strengthen Renault Group’s Digital Transformation
- Renault Group and Google are increasing their partnership.
- The “Software Defined Vehicle” will convey collectively one of the best of the automotive and digital worlds to permit for brand new on-demand companies and steady upgrades to be delivered to the automobile, constructing on the prevailing Android Automotive Operating System and Google Cloud expertise collaboration.
- Google turns into the popular cloud provider of Renault Group. The collaboration, initiated in 2018, can be prolonged as a part of Renault Group’s “Move to Cloud” digital transformation.
Sunnyvale (California) and Boulogne–Billancourt (France), November 8, 2022 – Renault Group and Google introduced right this moment an expanded partnership geared toward designing and delivering the digital structure for the “Software Defined Vehicle” (SDV) and accelerating the group’s digitalization. The two companions will develop a set of onboard and offboard software program parts which can be devoted to the SDV and will develop synergies and use circumstances associated to the group’s “Move to Cloud” strategy.
This collaboration on cloud computing, initiated in 2018, is accelerating today with the creation of a Digital Twin, a virtual twin of the vehicle that will feature the most advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, for an easier and continuous integration of new services into the vehicle and the creation of new onboard (In-Car Services) and offboard applications. The group will eventually transform its entire operational model to the cloud for more agility, better performance, and higher profitability.
“The complexity of the electronic architecture of cars is increasing exponentially, driven by the sophistication of the functionalities and services expected by customers. Equipped with a shared IT platform, continuous over-the-air updates, and streamlined access to car data, the SDV approach developed in partnership with Google will transform our vehicles to help serve future customers’ needs. This will increase residual value and after-sales retention, which are two key drivers of our financial performance, and help Renault to roll out our portfolio of new services. Finally, our strategic partnership with Google will allow us to accelerate our end-to-end digital transformation, from the design of the car to its market launch through its production, and ultimately to bring added value to our customers. With Google, we are going beyond mere cooperation: a software champion and a mobility champion are joining forces to create game-changing technologies.”
Luca de Meo, Renault Group CEO
“Our collaboration with Renault Group has advanced comfort, safety, and connectivity on the road. Today’s announcement will help accelerate Renault Group’s digital transformation by bringing together our expertise in the cloud, AI, and Android to provide for a secure, highly-personalized experience that meets customers’ evolving expectations.”
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
New improvements onboard automobiles
Renault Group and Google are increasing their partnership right into a collaboration to develop platforms and companies for the way forward for SDVs. The collaboration consists of in-vehicle software program to allow the “Software Defined Vehicle” Platform and cloud software program to allow a Digital Twin.
This collaboration will allow Renault Group to scale back prices, enhance effectivity, flexibility, and velocity of car developments, and improve worth for end-users due to steady software program innovation.
Renault Group will broaden its use of Google Cloud expertise for the SDV to raised handle information seize and analytics, securely and confidentially, in addition to software program growth for the car. This helps first use circumstances in growth, comparable to:
- Predictive upkeep and higher detection and rectification of failures in close to actual time if essential.
- A customized expertise onboard the car (In-Car companies) to adapt to driving behaviors, often-used locations comparable to EV Charging Stations, and so on.
- Insurance fashions primarily based on precise utilization and driving behaviors.
Combined with the “Software Defined Vehicle” Platform and its Car Data Platform, Renault Group plans to observe and analyze automobile utilization for a greater understanding of shoppers’ wants and behaviors and for higher and extremely personalised companies in accordance with their expectations, in compliance with the safety and privateness norms that apply.
Renault Group, changing into a tech firm with Google Cloud
With one billion items of information captured day by day throughout all manufacturing websites, linked manufacturing traces, provide chain information hosted and analyzed within the cloud, Renault Group has acknowledged the advantages of agility and efficiency after greater than 4 years of partnership on cloud computing. The Group right this moment appoints Google as its most popular cloud accomplice and intends to leverage its innovation in machine studying and AI, its fixed investments in its open and at all times extra sustainable infrastructure, and its safe cloud method.
Media contacts
Renault Group – Coralie Jolly – +33 (0)6 85 91 09 38 – [email protected]
Google – Frédéric Boullard – +33 (0)6 40 65 34 11 – [email protected]
About Renault Group
Renault Group is on the forefront of a mobility that’s reinventing itself. Strengthened by its alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, and its distinctive experience in electrification, Renault Group includes 4 complementary manufacturers – Renault, Dacia, Alpine and Mobilize – providing sustainable and revolutionary mobility options to its prospects. Established in additional than 130 nations, the Group has bought 2.7 million automobiles in 2021. It employs practically 111,000 individuals who embody its Purpose day by day, in order that mobility brings folks nearer. Ready to pursue challenges each on the street and in competitors, Renault Group is dedicated to an formidable transformation that can generate worth. This is centred on the event of latest applied sciences and companies, and a brand new vary of much more aggressive, balanced and electrified automobiles. In line with environmental challenges, the Group’s ambition is to realize carbon neutrality in Europe by 2040.
https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/
About Google
Google’s mission is to arrange the world’s data and make it universally accessible and helpful. Through merchandise and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome and YouTube, Google performs a significant function within the day by day lives of billions of individuals and has change into some of the widely-known corporations on the earth. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
