Auto-First | Zhang Chi from Shenzhen
Huawei does not build cars, almost Huawei car executives must mention the opening statement in public, compared with other new car-making forces that have entered, Huawei's way of involving car manufacturing is the most different, but it has become more and more similar to Weilai's OEM production model.
Shenzhen Bay Sports Center is Huawei's home stadium. On December 23, Huawei's winter flagship new product launch conference was held here. After the release of the flagship folding mobile phone HUAWEI P50 Pocket, blood pressure monitoring watch and laptop MateBook X Pro and many other products, a new SUV model AITO Q&I M5 was released in the finale, priced at 250,000 yuan - 320,000 yuan.
For the first time, a new species of automobile appeared at Huawei's full-range product launch, which is also the deepest involvement since Huawei emphasized not building cars. From the appearance to the interior, from the design to the process are Huawei-led, the three core components of electric vehicles, in addition to batteries, motors and electronic controls are all using Huawei's own products, and the AITO Q&A M5 cockpit is equipped with Huawei HarmonyOS system, and sales will be placed in huawei exhibition halls. In fact, whether Huawei builds a car or not is no longer important to the outside world, and there is no standard definition.
This was born in the Xiaokang factory of AITO Q&A M5, nearly 30 minutes of the conference is some "number of classics forget the ancestors", xiaokang and Xilis words are almost ignored, AITO is more like the product brand Cyris, Q&I M5 is more like the model brand SF5, including logo replacement, obviously these under the leadership of Huawei, Xiaokang made an application in the product catalog of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In fact, the stamping, welding, painting and final assembly of the car are all well-off processes, and its extended range engine is the use of a well-off 1.5T engine. At the press conference, the content of intelligent driving was only to achieve L2 level automatic driving, and AITO did not adopt Huawei's intelligent driving solutions.
According to Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU, the AITO M5 is built according to the standards of Million Luxury Cars.
Its extended range engine can generate 3.2 kWh of oil per liter of oil, matching the battery with 40 kWh of electricity, which can achieve CLTC service life of 1242 kilometers. The intelligent four-wheel drive combination composed of the front asynchronous AC motor + the rear permanent magnet synchronous motor can reach a peak power of 365kW, and the vehicle accelerates by 4.4 seconds from 100 kilometers. At present, the industry also uses the 1.5T extended range engine of the Lantu, the peak torque of the dual motors can achieve 1040N.m, and the M5 has no obvious advantages.
The M5 all-aluminum alloy chassis adopts a front double wishbone and a rear multi-link independent suspension, which is the same type of suspension as the Lantu. In addition, 20-inch high-performance tires and the Bosch iBooster intelligent braking system also enhance the driving experience of the vehicle.
For the first time, the M5 is equipped with a new HarmonyOS smart cockpit, which can be seamlessly linked with people, mobile phones, smart homes, smart watches, etc. It has many digital functions such as voice interaction, intelligent xiaoyi suggestions, on-board map PetalMaps, all-round digital car keys and so on.
The appearance of the Q&I M5 is basically no different from the Cyrus SF5, which can be understood as a simple pick-up. With a wheelbase of 2880mm, the Racing SF5 has been lengthened by 5mm, with all-aluminum wheels for 20-inch sails and ultra-low wind resistance of 0.32Cd for a sporty look. The interior adopts a simple design style, 10.4-inch curved full LCD instrument panel, 15.6-inch 2K HDR intelligent central control large screen. The panoramic canopy with a total area of about 2 square meters provides an open and soothing ride.
Although Huawei moved the automotive product release to its flagship product launch, from the configuration of the Q&A M5, this is far from all of Huawei's layout of the automotive field.
Huawei, which is positioned as a supplier of intelligent car incremental parts, has expanded its products in the automotive field to four major sectors of intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent car cloud, and intelligent electric since it announced its entry into the Internet of Vehicles in 2013, and Huawei, which has both software and hardware systems, has carried out in-depth cooperation with many car companies.
Taking the intelligent driving Inside full-stack solution as an example, it has carried out in-depth cooperation with Changan, GAC and BAIC to create three sub-brands, and the smart cars marked with the "Huawei Inside" logo in the fourth quarter of this year will be launched one after another.
Enterprises that mind being mastered can also adopt the second cooperation model with Huawei, Huawei provides the MDC intelligent driving computing platform, that is, Huawei provides hardware based on Ascend SoC, autonomous driving operating system AOS and vehicle control operating system VOS, as well as AutoSAR middleware, and the rest of the perception and execution algorithms are developed by partners. As of June this year, more than 20 companies have released multi-scenario commercial solutions based on Huawei's MDC.
Huawei's cooperation with parts and components companies is more diversified, taking the intelligent cockpit as an example, and its partners include Joyson Electronics, Huayang Group, Zhongke Chuangda, and Desay SV. The field of intelligent electric power includes Ningde era, Yinlun Shares, Fulin Seiko, etc.; Intelligent driving includes NavInfo, Lianchuang Electronics, etc.
In fact, Huawei, which has always said that it does not build cars, has not intervened in the four major processes of automobile manufacturing, and the involvement in smart cars has been quite deep, and all the solutions related to intelligence, electrification, and digitalization have not fallen. Even sales of Huawei are also personally on the battlefield, and the M5 will open a trial drive and reservation in 500 Huawei stores in 118 cities next year.
At least half of the things in the M5 that came out this time are Dongfeng Xiaokang, although 10,000 words were omitted here at the press conference, but the essential things cannot be changed, this is not Huawei's ultimate product, and the real bright sword may have to wait.