CAIT-SH Showcases Skateboard Chassis at COVESA@CES 2025 and Partners with IRF to Empower AI Electric Motorsport Events
The global CES, which formerly stood for Consumer Electronics Show, grandly opened in Las Vegas in January 2025. Contemporary Amperex Intelligence Technology (Shanghai) Limited (CAIT-SH) made a prominent appearance at the COVESA Networking & Showcase @CES 2025, exhibiting its innovative CATL integrated intelligent chassis (CIIC) and related technologies. At the CES 2025 venue, CAIT-SH formally signed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic partnership with the Intelligent Racing Foundation (IRF). The two parties will jointly promote the development of artificial intelligence (AI) car racing and intelligent skateboard chassis technology worldwide.
Building an Open Ecosystem and Empowering Software-Defined Vehicles
As CAIT-SH's core product, the CIIC is a highly intelligent skateboard chassis distinguishing itself through its "upper and lower decoupling, high-level integration, and open architecture." It significantly accelerates the entire cycle from product definition and R&D to testing, validation, and mass production for partners. Its scalable hardware and software architecture, coupled with standardized interfaces, enables a single chassis architecture to accommodate different vehicle models. This “shared chassis” business mode enhances the industry's efficiency and drastically reduces initial vehicle R&D costs while unlocking greater possibilities for creative vehicle body designs and application scenarios.
Responding to the burgeoning need for intelligent capabilities of vehicles, the CIIC provides an open software framework, offering standardized proven essential functional software and a foundational software platform. A data-centric architecture delivers standardized interfaces to external users to meet the trend of collaborative development between partners within the ecosystem and empower the intelligent evolution of automotive technology.
The CIIC aligns seamlessly with COVESA's advocacy for ecosystem collaboration and standardization, garnering significant attention during the event. CAIT-SH will strengthen collaboration with COVESA and its members to jointly develop intelligent, connected automotive products based on the skateboard chassis, share resources, realize complementary strengths, and promote synergistic growth of players throughout the industrial chain.
Partnership with IRF to Drive AI Electric Motorsport Events
On January 8, 2025 (PST), the IRF and CAIT-SH signed a strategic partnership agreement at CES 2025. This strategic partnership underscores the exceptional fit between intelligent skateboard chassis and autonomous driving applications. It is also expected to usher in a new era of collaborative development of AI technologies and electric motorsport worldwide.
The IRF plans to host an AI electric motorsport event in an iconic Chinese scenic area in 2025. As a key partner, CAIT-SH will provide its CIIC as the foundational platform for competing teams to develop and showcase their autonomous driving technologies. The two parties will further promote the event as a leading research platform for top universities in China and around the world. The IRF will also develop standards on 3D positioning and sensing for the autonomous driving systems based on events and racing cars and facilitate data sharing among participating teams.
Tang Minqin, Secretary-General of the Intelligent Racing Foundation, noted that the partnership will take the lead in setting a new benchmark for AI electric motorsport in Asia by combining CAIT-SH's advanced CIIC technology with the IRF's expertise in promoting AI racing.
According to Hu Guoliang, Executive President of CAIT-SH, the event will not only mark the initial application of intelligent skateboard chassis in autonomous driving but will also offer the industry a highly intelligent, rapidly iterative “AI + chassis platform” model for collaborative innovation. The standardized software and hardware interfaces developed through the partnership will enable intelligent skateboard chassis to empower scenario-based and personalized mobility needs more effectively.
CAIT-SH will remain committed to driving technological innovation and collaborating with global partners to usher in a new era of more efficient, intelligent, and personalized mobility.
About COVESA
The Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA) is a global technical alliance focused on the development of open standards and technologies for automotive systems. COVESA keeps driving the advancement of intelligent connected vehicle technologies. The skateboard chassis, with its innovative design philosophy and decoupled hardware and software architecture, serves as a crucial implementation platform for software-defined vehicles.
About IRF
The Intelligent Racing Foundation (IRF)(https://intelligentracing.org) is a Nevada-based, non-profit organization focused on the development and promotion of high-technology and STEM education standards. The IRF focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and the standard development for innovative technologies within STEM and vocational training. In the AI field, the IRF collaborates with world-class expert teams to create leading global standards for AI racing events and associated data, leveraging these standards to promote technological research and open data sharing within the field. Through partnerships with leading research universities and major scientific institutions, the IRF has sponsored numerous AI autonomous driving competitions in the United States and Asia and provided educational and training platforms for cultivating top-tier students and talented managers in these regions.