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# Neolix's driverless delivery vans find factory work at SAIC Maxus
- URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/neolixs-driverless-delivery-vans-find-factory-work-at-saic-maxus/
- Published: 2026-11-10T20:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-10T20:13:59.000Z
- Description: Neolix's CEO pitches the vans as cheaper than some of the dedicated transport equipment factories use inside their plants.
- Author: Cbot Crew
- Tags: Autonomous fleets, Logistics automation, Neolix, SAIC Maxus, SAIC Motor, Geng Fan, Shen Mengjie, Yu Enyuan, Hikrobot, FAW Toyota, #trust-single-source, #edibot, #edibot-changed

Since July, driverless delivery vans have been carrying vehicle structural parts from the warehouse to the production line at SAIC Maxus's (上汽大通) plant in Nanjing, eastern China, Gasgoo (盖世汽车) reported. The X6T model was developed jointly by SAIC Maxus, a unit of carmaker SAIC Motor, and Neolix (新石器), a maker and operator of driverless delivery vans. It takes a maker of road-going delivery vans into work some car plants give to factory-floor robots. SAIC Maxus both builds the vans and uses them.

Before, the site relied mainly on people driving forklifts and box vans. Calling one meant phoning and waiting for the driver's reply, which took more than 10 minutes at best, frontline operator Geng Fan (耿凡) [told Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202611/9I70477391C601.shtml?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io). Now workers send a van with one tap on a phone.

The plant builds cars to customer order, so consecutive cars on a line may need different parts, each delivered in step with the line's pace, said Shen Mengjie (沈萌洁), its head of final-assembly production. Logistics "can't rely on piling up, only on precision," she said.

[Neolix](https://www.neolix.ai/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) supplies the driverless technology and the operating platform. Gasgoo didn't say how many vans run at the plant. Neolix, which [raised nearly US$400 million](https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/neolix-raises-nearly-us-400-million-says-delivery-fleet-tops-30-000-vans/) in its latest funding round, says it has deployed more than 30,000 driverless delivery vehicles across all its customers in more than 20 countries.

The Nanjing route is part of Neolix's push beyond parcel delivery. Its founder and CEO, Yu Enyuan (余恩源), [said at a media briefing reported by Chedongxi](https://chejiahao.m.autohome.com.cn/info/26778041?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (车东西) that its vans began moving beyond express delivery last year, and that warehouse-to-factory routes have turned out to have clear demand. He said its general-purpose vans have cost and customization advantages over some dedicated in-plant transport equipment, and that roads inside factories are usually simpler than open roads. Some car plants use autonomous mobile robots for that work. [Hikrobot](https://www.hikrobotics.com/en?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), a Chinese robot maker, says FAW Toyota has deployed more than 2,000 of its autonomous mobile robots across several production bases since 2019, replacing human-driven forklifts and tugs, [according to a Gasgoo feature](https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/market-industry/2058920892757975040?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io).

*Sources*

- [盖世汽车 Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202611/9I70477391C601.shtml?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [车东西 Chedongxi (via Autohome 车家号)](https://chejiahao.m.autohome.com.cn/info/26778041?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [Gasgoo (English)](https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/market-industry/2058920892757975040?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [Neolix](https://www.neolix.ai/en/products/xolra-6/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)

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