GAC Wins 8 Awards at China-SAE Ceremony, Including 4 First Prizes
GAC won 8 awards at the 2026 China-SAE Science and Technology Award ceremony in Suzhou, Jiangsu, including four first prizes, according to the company. The awards cover automotive chips, electric drive, vehicle safety, intelligent driving governance and body design.
- GAC won 8 awards at the 2026 China-SAE Science and Technology Award ceremony in Suzhou on October 28, including 4 first prizes.
- GAC says its amorphous alloy motor reaches 99.03% peak efficiency and adds 30-50 km of range with the same battery capacity.
- The HYPTEC GT Special Edition is described as China's first ICV with 100% domestically designed chips.
- An AI-based body design system generates concept schemes within 5 hours, according to GAC.
Four first prizes and one second prize
The ceremony took place on October 28. GAC says two of the first prizes went to projects it led, while the other two went to projects in which it participated. A further GAC-led project won second prize.
The winning work spans five areas: automotive chips, electric drive, vehicle safety, intelligent driving governance and body design.
Domestic chips and amorphous alloy motors
In chips, the GAC-led project built what the company calls a full-chain path from vehicle definition to scale application. It worked with 105 partners to apply nearly 400 chip models and over 1,000 domestic chips. According to GAC, the HYPTEC GT Special Edition, China's first ICV with 100% domestically designed chips, has been launched.
In electric drive, GAC says it pioneered mass production of amorphous alloy stators and carbon-fiber high-speed rotors, and is the world's only company to mass-produce amorphous alloy automotive motors. The key figures reported by the company:
- Amorphous ribbon thickness of 0.025 mm
- Peak efficiency of 99.03%
- Power density of 17.29 kW/kg (@1000V), which GAC describes as nearly three times the industry mainstream
- Maximum speed of 30,000 rpm
- System CLTC efficiency of 94.184%
For users, GAC says energy consumption drops 4% and range rises 30-50 km with the same battery capacity. The motor has been used in HYPTEC, AION and AISTALAND models and promoted to other automakers. The related precision manufacturing technology won the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.
Safety, governance and AI-based body design
The second-prize project, led by GAC with Tsinghua University, focused on safety. It developed China's first ASIL-D fully domestic safety controller, real-time risk quantification, active-suspension side-impact mitigation, a rear-window airbag and an "automaker-traffic police-hospital" integrated rescue model. GAC says it has been applied to 20 models with cumulative sales of 1.446 million units.
GAC also took part in an L2-L4 safety governance project that helped establish a full-lifecycle system covering pre-admission, in-process supervision and post-event traceability.
In body design, a project in which GAC participated features an AI-based system for the body-in-white (BIW). According to the company, it generates concept schemes within 5 hours, reaches over 95% stiffness prediction accuracy and raises design efficiency by over 30%. It has been applied to the second-generation GAC GS8, GAC ES9 and GAC All-new S7.
What it means
The awards give GAC third-party recognition for work that already appears in production vehicles, from motors in HYPTEC, AION and AISTALAND models to the AI design tool used on several GAC cars. The performance figures come from the company itself. GAC says it will keep pursuing innovation-driven development, core technology breakthroughs and commercialization to support China's auto industry.
