On October 9, 2025, Dongfeng Fengshen L8 officially launched its first OTA smart upgrade, introducing over 20 new features and optimizing experiences centered around three core scenarios: payment ecology, voice interaction, and entertainment systems. This upgrade is user-demand driven, activating the cabin’s potential from AI interactions that ‘understand you’ to ‘worry-free’ senseless services, allowing car owners to enjoy a ‘fresh experience with regular use.’
When taking kids out, facing their endless questions, searching for answers on your phone is distracting, and giving hard answers might mislead them; waiting alone in the car for an hour at a red light or picking up kids can lead to silent phone scrolling. These small awkward moments and dullness now have a new play.
The most remarkable change in intelligent interaction after the upgrade is the support for intelligent voice chat, fuzzy content search, contextual inheritance, and multimedia cross-domain. Compared to the previous single command responses, the DeepSeek & Doubao dual AI model voice assistant can serve as an ‘encyclopedia’ for checking daily knowledge, calculating bills, reading news, and explaining traffic regulations; it can also act as a ‘chatting companion’ to ease boredom during idle times, play interactive mini-games, and provide useful answers regarding the vehicle manual, making it more aligned with daily conversational habits and intelligently responsive to your needs.
Entertainment Ecosystem Enhanced, Cabin Transforms into a ‘Mobile Leisure Station’
When camping with family and friends, everyone tends to do nothing but scroll their phones, leading to ‘boring moments’ during family outings; after a long day, returning home and enjoying personal time is now fully filled with this upgrade.
The newly added iQIYI app supports purchasing memberships in the car’s app store, and membership benefits can be synchronized across multiple devices including the car, phone, tablet, and computer. During long journeys, the front passenger and rear passengers can watch shows simultaneously, completely saying goodbye to ‘travel boredom’; a customized version of Migu Quick Play has also launched, covering popular games like Egg Party, Wild Race, Black Myth: Wukong, and Genshin Impact. By connecting a Bluetooth controller, users can enjoy seamless gameplay with their accounts, allowing them to pick up where they left off at home while waiting in the car, ensuring an uninterrupted entertainment experience.
All-Scene Senseless Services, Solving ‘High-Frequency Pain Points’ of Vehicle Use
In daily vehicle use, there are always various ‘troubles.’ Finding the payment QR code while leaving a parking lot can take forever, while the car behind honks impatiently; on rainy days, scanning the code can be a struggle; during the morning rush, wanting to buy a coffee means wasting time searching for an app to park… These ‘panic’ moments can now be resolved with a single click.
The Alipay Car Life app, developed in collaboration between Dongfeng Motor and Alipay, serves as an in-car ‘personal assistant’ that allows users to pay for parking, search for nearby parking lots or gas stations, enjoy discounted charging, and discounted car washes all with one click, saving time and effort. Additionally, users can receive package pickup codes directly to their car system without needing to pull out their phones, allowing real-time tracking of package statuses. The most convenient feature is the ‘voice coffee pre-order’ function (supporting both Starbucks and Luckin Coffee); if you’re in a hurry and want to grab a coffee, you can simply say, ‘Order a Luckin Latte,’ and after selecting, the payment is automatically deducted. You can pick it up at the store without stopping or searching for your phone, efficiently multitasking while driving.
It’s worth noting that the Alipay senseless charging ecosystem is continually expanding. Currently, the plug-and-charge feature covers 29 provinces, over 140 cities, and more than 4,500 charging piles nationwide, with support for some new electric charging piles. By the end of 2025, support for Xinxing Charging, Southern Power Grid, and Weijing Cloud charging piles will be added, with other mainstream charging companies gradually integrating, making future charging even more convenient.
Safety Detail Optimization, Greater Peace of Mind in Narrow Conditions
Roads in residential areas are often filled with parked cars, making drivers anxious about scraping their side mirrors; when meeting oncoming traffic, the A-pillar blocks the view of pedestrians, creating uncertainty during these ‘tense moments’ due to poor visibility, which this upgrade addresses.
In response to feedback regarding visibility issues, this upgrade has optimized the 360-degree panoramic view (AVM). After switching to the AVM interface, the left and right views have been adjusted from the original direct side perspective to angles that allow observation of the left and right front blind spots. When navigating narrow roads or meeting oncoming traffic, obstacles near the A-pillar are clearly displayed, significantly reducing the risk of scrapes due to blind spots and enhancing driving safety.
Currently, Dongfeng Fengshen L8 users can confirm the upgrade via a prompt on the car’s system or through the Dongfeng Fengshen app, completing the process in about 30 minutes without needing to visit a store. From intelligent interaction to scenario services, this OTA upgrade has no redundant features; each one precisely addresses the core needs of family users. This not only strengthens product competitiveness but also truly integrates the convenient experience of ‘software-defined vehicles’ into every moment of daily travel.返回搜狐，查看更多