Source: Electric Zhijia
Recently, according to media reports, the Xilis store was renamed AITO, and the owner questioned huawei's smart choice SF5 "disguised suspension". The first batch of owners of Huawei Smart Choice SF5 said, "Xilis stores have changed to AITO brand, Huawei Smart Choice SF5 has suspended booking, and the exhibition cars are off the line and sold at a discount, which makes the old owners feel? This is a disguised suspension of production. At present, some car owners have begun to protect their rights, according to the owner of the car friends group has previously differentiated into a rights protection group, "there are more than 480 car friends in the group, and there are nearly 300 people in the rights protection group."
According to the screenshot of the chat of the car friend group, a manager of the Xilis delivery center told the owner that the Celis Huawei Smart SF5 has been discontinued, and the customer service said that the after-sales service can be carried out normally in the AITO store. Huawei related sources said that SF5 has indeed stopped accepting bookings, according to the plan, before December 31, the national Xilisi stores will be changed to AITO brand user center.
Some car owners said, "Xilis made a car, Yu Chengdong station platform." In the hearts of our consumers, this is the car made by Huawei, and we dare to buy it. Now the old car owner feels deceived. "The new car has been in half a year, there have been many problems, the owners can endure, Huawei is a large enterprise worthy of trust, but now the suspension of sales will hit the old owners to the bottom." Another owner feedback, when the user learned about the car, the official announced that the car has Huawei HICAR function and vehicle WIFI, but the user only has huawei HICAR function when picking up the car, and there is no car WIFI function, and the publicity function is castrated.
During the Shanghai Auto Show in April this year, the Xilix Huawei Smart SF5 model was officially put on sale, and at the same time entered the Huawei Smart Select offline store for sale. SF5 positioned as a "high-performance electric drive coupe SUV", the two-wheel drive version is priced at 216,800 yuan, and the four-wheel drive version is priced at 246,800 yuan.
In response to the "suspension of production" question, Xilis customer service and a flagship store of Huawei in Beijing said that "no production was stopped", and users can enjoy relevant after-sales service in the AITO brand store normally. Huawei flagship store employees said, "SF5 did not stop production, but does not accept reservations, and now AITO asks the world to meet the new M5 car on the market, the production line mainly supplies M5, SF5 to see the manufacturer's notice." ”
For the current huawei xilis problem, netizens also expressed their views, "SF5 car opened for 3 months, the first insurance has not arrived, directly stopped production, Yu Chengdong conference SF5 annual sales of 30W vehicles, said play, April release December suspension, even if the car to be updated is not played like this, 4S shop all changed names, new cars out of the brand also replaced, really speechless."
On December 23, 2021, Huawei's winter flagship new product launch conference was held in Shenzhen, the most eye-catching of which was the official release of Huawei's first Hongmeng Automobile AITO (Aotu) Q&AoJie M5. It is reported that this is the first commercial Huawei HarmonyOS smart cockpit smart car. The model is positioned as a smart luxury SUV, equipped with HUAWEI DriveONE pure electric drive range extension platform and HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit, AITO Q&I M5 after-drive standard version pre-priced 250,000 yuan, four-wheel drive performance version pre-priced 280,000 yuan, four-wheel drive flagship version pre-priced 320,000 yuan.
The AITO M5 is jointly built by Huawei and Xilix. AITO translates as Adding Intelligence to Auto, which means adding intelligence to the car. According to the electric knower, although the brand is released by Xilis, there is a deep participation of Huawei behind it, and it can even be considered that in the Aotu brand model, the role of Xilis is a foundry. According to people familiar with the matter, the cooperation method adopted by Aotu is completely different from the Previous Inside model of Huawei as only a supplier, and this model is completely dominated by Huawei from pre-planning and design to post-marketing and sales. Equivalent to Huawei buying out this model, Jinkang Cyrus is only responsible for OEM production.