{"id":4250,"date":"2021-02-19T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chery-icartechnologies.co.za\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:32:32","slug":"tiggo-8-pro-wins-annual-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/tiggo-8-pro-wins-annual-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiggo 8 Pro Wins \u201cAnnual Innovation Award\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c2020 China Auto Award Ceremony\u201d, hosted by China Media Group (CMG), took place in Beijing on January 20. Tiggo 8 Pro received the top award-\u201cAnnual Innovation Award\u201d in recognition of its outstanding quality and innovative technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Through the selection, CMG, China\u2019s most influential national media agency, aims to demonstrate the efforts of China\u2019s auto industry in overcoming the Covid-19 outbreak to improve product quality, accelerate product upgrading, break the bottleneck of R&amp;D and achieve a turnaround through technology, product and model innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Since the selection started in September 2020, Tiggo 8 Pro has stood out from nearly 100 models, to be named the \u201cNational Car of the Year 2020\u201d by over 1 million votes. Following sessions such as online selection, professional test and expert evaluation, it was shortlisted for the Model of the Year awards and eventually won the Annual Innovation Award.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3111\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3111 size-full lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100751_336.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100751_336.jpg 552w, https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100751_336-300x199.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"367\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100751_336.jpg\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020 China Auto Award Ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chery often reminds people of technology, a label attached by consumers to Chery over the years. Technology innovation is the foundation and root of Chery. Through technology innovation, Chery aims to embrace the future by further improving fuel vehicle technologies, accelerate the electrification, networking, intelligentization and sharing of products, develop sophisticated technologies in fields such as new energy, intelligent connection and autonomous driving, and make China\u2019s auto industry grow strong and consumers benefit from technology innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Chery has adhered at technology innovation, invested 5% to 7% of its annual sales revenues in R&amp;D and achieved breakthroughs in key technologies. To date, Chery has applied for 20,794 patents and won 13,153 patents, ranking top in China\u2019s auto industry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3112\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3112 size-full lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100817_518.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100817_518.png 552w, https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100817_518-300x197.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"363\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100817_518.png\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiggo 8 Pro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chery has been up to world leading standards in the engine field after 22 years of forward development. With outstanding performance, reliability and economy, the 1.6TGDI engine, a powerful China Heart engine powering Tiggo 8 Pro, is comparable to key joint venture and luxury brands. Remarkable, Chery is about to roll out its next generation China Heart engine which will be more powerful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3113\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3113 size-full lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100842_392.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100842_392.png 552w, https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100842_392-300x176.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"323\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/chery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210219100842_392.png\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1.6TGDI engine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To go with the tide of \u201celectrification, networking, intelligentization and sharing\u201d, Chery has been accelerating the development of technologies in fields such as intelligent connection and autonomous driving. Chery\u2019s independent Chery Lion i-Connect System has realized enhanced voice interaction, AI face recognition and AI intelligent management, and been fully applied in the core products of Tiggo and Arrizo. In terms of autonomous driving, Chery has launched the Lion Intelligent Driving technology platform and created a smart traffic ecosystem of driver-vehicle-road cooperation. Chery achieved L2.5 autonomous driving in 2020 and will achieve L4 autonomous driving in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The grant of the Annual Innovation Award to Tiggo 8 Pro is a reflection of Chery\u2019s innovation strength and an epitome of China\u2019s manufacturing strength. Chery has aspired to build a globally competitive brand over the 24 years. At the critical period for the transformation of China\u2019s auto industry, Chery will continue to uphold the strategy of Technology Chery, master core technologies, and accelerate the intelligentization, networking, electrification and sharing of products, to help China\u2019s auto industry achieve a historic leap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c2020 China Auto Award Ceremony\u201d, hosted by China Media Group (CMG), took place in Beijing on January 20. Tiggo 8 Pro received the top award-\u201cAnnual Innovation Award\u201d in recognition of its outstanding quality and innovative technologies. Through the selection, CMG, China\u2019s most influential national media agency, aims to demonstrate the efforts of China\u2019s auto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/single-custom-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630352,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/630352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherybloemfontein.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}