Recently, the much-anticipated Huawei Winter New Product Launch conference arrived as scheduled, bringing us a number of Harmony OS device products including the flagship folding screen P50 Pocket. However, the biggest protagonist of the whole conference is not the flagship folding mobile phone, but the first intelligent car equipped with the Hongmeng intelligent cockpit, AITU Q&AO M5.
What is AITO Q&I M5?
First of all, AITO is a high-end new energy brand jointly created by Huawei by Jinkang Cyris Company, as the name suggests, all the models under Jinkang Cyric will appear here, and the Q&A M5 is the first model under AITO, the new car is based on Cyrus SF5, the overall appearance and interior design are dominated by Huawei, but TC Jun's first reaction to see this car is "This product is too much like Baoshitai bar"! Whether it is the exterior or the interior, the entire silhouette is too similar to The SR9 of Prostempe.
Of course, the appearance and interior design are really a matter of opinion, and the highlight of the new car is still based on Huawei-led Hongmeng intelligent cockpit technology. The interior of the new car is composed of a 10.4-inch curved full LCD dashboard and a 15.6-inch central control large screen, built-in HarmonyOS system, the best use of the system must be even your mobile phone is to Huawei brand or built-in Huawei HarmonyOS system equipment, so that you can achieve seamless docking of people, car machines, smart homes, smart watches, etc., in the true sense of the realization of the car connection of everything, which is also huawei's real purpose, so that you can not do without "Huawei" in your daily life. This also means that if you drive this car, do not use a Huawei mobile phone or bring a Huawei watch, it is difficult to enjoy such an extreme experience!
As for the power, there is nothing special, after all, it is based on SF5, so the whole power system and the motor system are only different in tuning. Therefore, the M5 is equipped with HUAWEI DriveONE pure electric drive extended range platform, which provides two power specifications of rear drive and four-wheel drive, respectively, and the comprehensive power of the system is 204 horsepower, 428 horsepower and 496 horsepower, respectively. The 496-horsepower model accelerates in just 4.4 seconds. The official promotion of the new car can reach 1242 kilometers under full fuel and full power CLTC conditions.
Is it possible for Huawei to "build a car"?
After watching this conference, I believe that friends who do not understand will definitely question "whether Huawei has built a car"! What I want to tell you here is that Huawei has stressed in many public venues that "no cars are built"! Its purpose is to help car companies build good cars and sell good cars. Therefore, the AITO M5 smart car that you saw at Huawei's winter product launch conference is a model jointly launched by Huawei and Jinkang Cilis.
So why doesn't Huawei build its own cars? After all, even xiaomi next door has begun to build cars in the sea. In fact, car building is not so simple as a sentence, not only need a lot of money but also a lot of talent, if a certain link does not keep up with it, it will end up like "Evergrande Automobile". Therefore, direct cooperation with qualified car companies can be said to be the most suitable solution at present. Of course, Huawei is not only cooperating with Jinkang Cyrus, but also cooperated with Jihu Automobile, a high-end pure electric brand under Beiqi Blue Valley Automobile, to launch two models equipped with Huawei's Hongmeng OS vehicle system.
TC Jun believes that Huawei's current choice to cooperate with car companies is actually a paving for the follow-up assessment of whether it is directly involved in car manufacturing, after all, the current main is still based on technology transportation. Of course, it is also very likely that kinconceles will be slowly swallowed up. Why do you dare to say that? It can be seen at Huawei's winter new product launch that in the more than one hour of new car conference time, Huawei did not mention Jinkang Cyrus. Although the new model is unveiled with a new brand AITO, Huawei has always emphasized that this is a model designed by Huawei, which also means the "status" of Huawei cars in Jinkang Cyrus automobiles.
If Jinkang Cyrus lacks huawei as a good partner, it is really difficult for TC Jun to imagine how it competes with other new power car brands. In addition, before the cooperation with Huawei, the sales volume of its market terminals was not very satisfactory, but with the in-depth cooperation with Huawei and the entry of its SF5 model into Huawei's offline sales store, the sales volume and popularity of the model are gradually rising. I have to say that what Jinkang Cyris values is Huawei's user group and the influence of the technology behind it, and what Huawei values is nothing more than whether it can give it a stage to exert its technology, it is not willing to just simply transport technology, more or need to participate in the entire development, design, when all the time is ripe, then it is when Huawei announces that it has become an automobile manufacturer.
After all, as a businessman, how can you let go of the big fat meat of the automobile market, but also under the favorable circumstances of various policies. Anyway, now Huawei says that it will not build cars, but if everything is mature, it will be difficult to refuse the attractiveness of the market.
Text / Aki
Duty Edit Southwest