Guangzhou Automobile Cooperation* (GAC) R&D Center Silicon Valley (GAC-SV) was established in April 2017. The company is located in Sunnyvale, the heart of Silicon Valley. GAC-SV aims to build high-end technical talents for high-tech research and development, as well as provides intellectual support and promotes academic research and product collaboration. Under the current trend of automotive technologies such as intelligent and connected, electrification, and multi-industry integration, the main businesses of GAC-SV include big data analysis and artificial intelligence, automated driving and control, vehicle network cybersecurity and new energy powertrain technologies. Supported by GAC Group, GAC-SV actively utilized the advantages of high efficiency, speed and flexibility in the Silicon Valley and has achieved rapid development and outstanding achievements in the past year. The projects with the self-developed in vehicle gateway firewall, prediction of power battery performance by using big data, user-based insurance (UBI), autonomous driving’s architecture, safety and simulation, motor thermal analysis, have achieved many outstanding results and been adopted into mass production. GAC-SV has published more than ten high-quality papers in journals and conferences such as ITEC, AVEC, IEEE-FG, CICV2018, etc., and also filed nearly ten patents in IT industry and vehicle conventional technologies. GAC-SV also strives to collaborate with world-renowned research institutions and enterprises in prospective fields such as artificial intelligence algorithm, smart transportation and advanced electric vehicle powertrain. GAC-SV reflects the determination of China automotive companies to innovate, internationalize and catch up with the world's advanced technology. GAC-SV will help GAC and China automotive industry to develop world-class self-owned brand cars! * In 2018, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.(GAC Group) is the No. 202 of the Fortune Global 500.