ZERON (Zero One Auto) 零一汽车

ZERON develops new-energy heavy trucks as future 'road transport robots', with full-stack in-house capabilities spanning e-axles, thermal management, vehicle control systems and end-to-end autonomous driving. CATL holds 11.51 percent and is the company's largest external shareholder. According to company materials, ZERON is CATL's only investment target in the heavy-truck sector.

01Products and solutions

02Key strengths

• Three 'firsts' among new-energy heavy-truck entrants: the most integrated mass-produced e-axle, the fastest to 1,000 annual deliveries after founding, and the highest sales growth over the past year.
• Positioned in a market forecast to reach about 1.2 million new-energy heavy trucks a year globally by 2030, and an autonomous heavy-truck solutions market of 192.4 billion renminbi by 2030 and more than one trillion by 2035.
• The first company worldwide combining ground-up vehicle R&D with a heavy-truck end-to-end multimodal driving model — industry-leading technology converted into customer cost advantage.
• CATL holds 11.51 percent and is the largest external shareholder, providing strong synergies through battery supply and battery-swapping networks. Industry leaders including Temasek — whose portfolio includes ANE Logistics and a large logistics network — Zijin Mining, Shandong Energy Group and Moutai bring extensive autonomous-driving deployment scenarios and rigid transport demand.

03Customers and partners