In the Huawei winter flagship new product conference a few days ago, in addition to the "small items" such as P50 Pocket, Watch D, and MateBook X Pro, automotive products were also brought for the first time, which is the AITO Q&A M5. As the first medium-sized smart luxury SUV under the AITO brand, the car not only made its debut, but also announced the pre-sale range of 250,000-320,000 yuan.
Since December 23, the new car has been displayed in 180 Huawei stores in 42 cities, and then since January 20, 2022, 500 Huawei stores in 118 cities will open an appointment test drive and reservation, and users can make reservations through the AITO official website and my Huawei APP.
The first batch of car owners who book AITO Q&I M5 can enjoy the three honorable privileges of vehicle basic maintenance policy, vehicle basic service rights and free car network traffic, and the first 10,000 users who place orders can give away 10,000 yuan of vehicle optional packages and get priority car pick-up rights. There are also HUAWEI Card exclusive rights and services for car owners, and can enjoy exclusive rights and services such as refueling cashback, pen and pen cashback, roadside assistance, owners' insurance and free annual fees.
The AITO brand is a high-end new energy brand jointly built by Huawei and Xilix, and its brand name is the initial abbreviation of the brand slogan: Adding Intelligence to Auto. As Xu Lin, president of Xilis (rotating) said at the press conference, AITO is committed to creating a new high-end smart car for every user, bringing intelligence into the car, and making the car smarter.
Xilis and Huawei cooperate around the three core industries of technology, channels, and products. The AITO brand integrates the advanced technology and high-quality resources of both parties, among which Xilix is responsible for formulating the AITO vehicle research and development, procurement and manufacturing system, and fully guarantees the high-quality delivery and service capabilities. Adhering to the concept of helping car companies "build good cars and sell good cars", Huawei deeply empowers AITO in terms of product design, quality control, channel sales, etc., and uses the latest Hongmeng intelligent cockpit for the M5. The new car will be sold as a smart car on more Huawei channels. According to the brand's existing plans, the AITO Q&I M5, the first product defined as a medium-sized SUV, has been unveiled, followed by a medium-sized pure electric SUV and a medium-sized SUV, which are expected to be released as soon as 2022.
The new car is based on the pure electric drive extended range platform (DE-i), with high efficiency, safety, intelligence and other characteristics, such as its use of the world's first-class combination of gold electric drive, with 4 seconds of 100 km acceleration; its use of CTP module design battery PACK each cell uses independent fireproof packaging technology, really for the user to solve the anxiety about battery safety; the platform intelligent range control system can independently coordinate intelligent generator sets, drive technology, battery PACK, intelligent control, etc., and combined with more than 860 scenarios To achieve accurate matching, bring global strong power, low energy consumption, low noise experience, while the system supports OTA upgrades, continuously improve AI learning capabilities, and achieve intelligent growth.
As a product of advanced technology, the shape of aito M5 must be eye-catching enough, the extremely simple style of the whole vehicle is very attractive, they are also called natural aesthetic design, including the flying wing front grille, figure 7 headlights with vortex flow lights and other details for the car to add a lot of color.
AITO Q&I M5 length, width and height are 4770mm/1930mm/1625mm, wheelbase is 2880mm, thanks to the innate advantages of size and platform, it not only has a flexible body posture and, but also ensures ample riding space in the car, coupled with large-inch sail all-aluminum wheels and coupe body, the overall visual effect is very outstanding. It is worth mentioning that the AITO M5 has an ultra-low wind resistance of 0.32Cd.
The rear part of the car is full and round, the most eye-catching place is the integrated through-taillights, the eagle wing through-taillight design with double parallel line design, the lower taillights are left blank, retaining the visual sense of breathing, and the central "AITO" word mark has a high degree of recognition. In addition, the new car is equipped with a motion spoiler that can offset the lift generated by the air flow on the car when driving at high speed, and improve the driving stability of the vehicle.
AITO Q&I M5 has a total of six car paint colors to choose from, namely pine frost green, ice crystal gray, ceramic white, gilded black, sea blue, (azure blue flagship version exclusive), three interior colors to choose from, namely ivory white, polar night black, agate brown, a total of 18 different styles of color combinations.
When you come to the car, the simple technology wind comes to the face, using an integrated wrap-around cockpit design, the center console is distributed in a "T" shape, and the symmetrical wood grain decoration and hidden air conditioning outlet are extended left and right, which are naturally connected with the sub-dashboard. Including 10.4-inch curved full LCD instrument cluster, 15.6-inch 2K HDR intelligent central control large screen, wireless charging area and other designs greatly improve the convenience of operation.
AiTO Q&I M5 adopts a highly sporty two-frame flat-bottom steering wheel, wrapped in leather, full grip, and the middle flare area of the steering wheel is also sewn with delicate leather material, highlighting luxury.
For the first time, the AITO M5 is equipped with the new HarmonyOS smart cockpit, providing users with an easy, convenient and rich immersive driving experience. HarmonyOS smart cockpit breaks the information gap between different devices, and the super terminal that can seamlessly circulate with people, mobile phones, smart homes, smart watches, etc., truly realizes the convenience of connecting all things. Industry-leading voice interaction, intelligent xiaoyi suggestions, petal maps with excellent navigation experience, all-round digital car keys and many other black technologies have raised the intelligence of cars to a new height.
In the experience, the most obvious highlight of hongmeng intelligent cockpit is to bring simplified interaction, it has a familiar interface and interaction methods for Huawei end users, and through a large area of visual interaction area to customize the UI design, so that most of the settings and information can be directly accessed in one step to achieve zero-level operation. The smart Dock service card stationed in the personalized shortcut bar under the desktop can not only be adjusted according to personal preferences, but also based on comprehensive analysis of road conditions, owner status and vehicle conditions, and actively recommend content, safety reminders, convenient services, etc., so that the service can be directed one step at a time. Hongmeng intelligent cockpit has built a wealth of window display forms such as full-screen, split-screen, and suspended window to meet the interaction needs of different scenarios.
It also realizes smooth operation and smooth interface switching, and is better than the industry average in frame loss rate and response delay, keeping the car running smoothly for a long time. In addition, the car setting interface through 3D simulation animation, driving mode switching of light and shadow animation effects, icon micro animation and light with sound and other details of the elaborate design, so that the vehicle status at a glance, greatly enhance the driving pleasure.
AITO Q&I M5 comes pre-installed with a wealth of applications, including petal map, music, video, kugou, himalaya, pocket story, Youku, Thunderstone and so on. The application market, which is specially built for intelligent vehicle scenarios, has a wealth of apps and convenient services. Under the open Hongmeng ecology, more applications will continue to be brought in the future. AiTO Q&I M5 also comes with a smarter voice assistant Xiaoyi. For the first time, Voice Vehicle Control adopts Huawei's self-developed leading end-cloud combination architecture, while giving full play to the advantages of low end-side latency and large cloud-side models and large entities, providing users with a more natural, smooth, fast, and accurate voice interaction experience.
AiTO Q&I M5 is equipped with 8 million high-definition cameras inside and outside the car, which can quickly transmit the images captured on the road to the mobile phone, meeting the needs of users recording and sharing on the road. The in-car camera has face following and super night vision, allowing users to capture happy moments with family and friends at any time. The characteristics of the ultra-wide angle, over-the-horizon and zero distortion of the outside camera allow the vehicle to transform into a mobile camera and easily shoot a large road movie.
AITO Q&I M5 integrates face recognition service FRS (Face Recognition Service) and Huawei in-app payment IAP (In-App Purchases Kit), breaking through the traditional mobile phone scan code payment method, and users can complete payment through face recognition verification. In the future, users can also use the exterior camera to scan the QR code of the parking lot, cooperate with the face payment function in the cockpit, realize rapid payment, improve the payment experience, avoid cumbersome operations, and enhance driving safety.
The new car has more convenient cross-device connection, control capabilities, such as car-person interconnection, login to the same Huawei account of the mobile phone and car machine, under the distributed technical support of HarmonyOS, can realize navigation, music, video, changlian and other services in the mobile phone and the car between the natural connection, seamless flow; car home interconnection, only need a HUAWEI account, users can easily control smart home devices through the AITO Q&A M5 car control center on the machine preset "warm home", "peace of mind away from home" scene, Go out and return to the two without mistakes, to achieve the full-scene interconnection of people- cars - home; the interconnection of cars and watches, which is also the industry's first model to realize the unlocking of watches without sense, users can use HUAWEI WATCH 3 to unlock vehicles through Bluetooth or NFC. Users can also view vehicle information, switch modes, lock cars, switch windows, and find cars through the owner's APP on their mobile phones or watches.
Compared with the exterior lighting configuration, the AITO Q&I M5 is not soft inside the car, providing 128 colors of RGB infinitely adjustable intelligent induction atmosphere lights, which can not only match the voice interaction changes, but also accompany the rhythm of music beats. In the future, the AITO M5 will be upgraded through OTA, and the ambient lights will also change in the light and shade during the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle. AITO Q&I M5 is equipped with beautiful and practical makeup mirrors for "Her Royal Highness the Queen" in the overhead area of the main driver and co-driver, the baffle adopts the way of tile opening and closing, the feel is soft, the mirror area is expanded to about 2.1 times that of ordinary models, and the left and right sides are equipped with Studio-level flexible lighting, bringing the lighting effect of the special dresser.
The new car is also equipped with huawei sound system, with industry-leading 19-unit speakers, with the precipitation in audio technology and leading chip processing capabilities, can perfectly support the output of 1000+W power amplifiers. With Huawei Music and Huawei Video' high-quality multi-channel audio and video content, users can feel the perfect combination of innovative technology and sound aesthetics. Huawei Application Market powered by AITO is an application market created by Huawei for smart vehicle scenarios, and the open Hongmeng ecosystem will continue to bring users fun and interesting latest applications, and users can download the most third-party applications through the Huawei Application Market.
It is worth mentioning that in order to solve the pain point of the driver and passengers in the car whose voice disturbs each other when listening to the audio, aito M5 can also choose to be equipped with a private headrest audio. The curved design of the main driver's headrest combines the distribution of the human head model to form the directivity of the audio to the human ear, resulting in better soundstage immersion.
AiTO Q&I M5 is equipped with the ICAS (Intelligent Clean Air System) intelligent cleaning cockpit system, which is mainly composed of KN95 filter element, negative ion generator, PM2.5 sensor, and AQS sensor. The air quality in the car can easily pass the China Health Index full five-star certification. The new car is also equipped with three exclusive fragrance systems such as Hechang Xiangfeng, Qingya Ruolin, and Calm Rupo, which users can switch at will according to their preferences and moods. Users can also adjust the concentration of scents on the screen of the car to create the best olfactory atmosphere.
The new car is equipped with premium first-class seats, using high-end Nappa leather wrapping, comfortable and quite classy, the front seats provide seat massage and ventilation heating, the headrests are also stretched, and the rear seats are also equipped with seat heating to create an exclusive first-class space for each occupant.
The one-piece leather gear lever of the new car is made of a single piece of leather, which has a delicate touch and excellent slip resistance, and is more strictly based on ergonomic design and fits the curvature of the hand. Users can also choose to install high-grade crystal gear handle, the overall shape of the gear is exquisite and compact, the sense of luxury of the vehicle interior is raised to a new height, and it also has good practicality, the suction feeling when shifting gears is stronger, compared to the ordinary gear handle, it can also bring a more cool and comfortable feel in the hot summer.
The new car is equipped with a seamless panoramic canopy, using architectural grade micron silver-plated insulated glass, which is isolated from 99.9% ultraviolet rays, with a field of view ratio of 97.7%, and the thermal insulation efficiency is increased by more than 40%, and the foldable sunshade is given as a gift. The car is also equipped with four 66W Type-C charging ports and 40W wireless fast charging, so that the convenient fast charging experience covers all the drivers and passengers.
AITO Inquisition M5 has L2+ level intelligent driver assistance function, integrating 1 visual perception camera, 3 millimeter wave radar, 4 APA cameras, 12 long-distance ultrasonic radar, of which Bosch's third-generation assisted driving camera has a maximum detection angle of 100 degrees and a maximum pixel of 2.6 million, ensuring a broad field of view and accurate image recognition, able to cope with various complex road conditions; The longest detection distance of Bosch's fifth-generation millimeter-wave radar system reaches 210m and the maximum detection angle reaches 120 degrees. It ensures the forward-looking prediction performance and visual breadth of the assisted driving system, and can realize lane cruise assistance, driving blind spot warning, etc., which greatly improves driving safety.
The new car is also equipped with a 360 ° intelligent panoramic parking system, consisting of 12 ultrasonic radars, 4 APA high-definition cameras, APA controllers, using visual plus ultrasonic fusion to identify parking spaces and obstacles, supporting 100+ parking scenarios (including special scenarios such as incomplete parking lines and curved parking spaces), which can realize parking space limiter recognition and easily free hands.
AiTO M5 has a large space rare in its class, the rear seat backrest is 870mm from the front seat, with a panoramic canopy with a total area of about 2.1m, bringing open rear top, side vision and space. The interior storage compartment is rich and practical, with up to 369 litres of trunk space and up to 776 litres of rear seats when reclined, making it easy to fit all your travel gear.
In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder Miller cycle range extender specially built for the extended range system, with a 15:1 compression ratio, 41% thermal efficiency, and a maximum power generation efficiency of 3.2kW·h/L.
The car has a CLITC operating range of 1242 km and a WLTC service range of 1102 km (NEDC 1195 km). In terms of charging, fast charging for 45 minutes can make the power from 20% to 80%, and slow charging for 5 hours can make the power from 20% to 80%. The new car provides 7kW smart home charging pile, small design, with the industry's lightest charging gun (less than 400g), more labor-saving, light and easy to use, support the tip temperature to prevent overheating, so that charging is more safe and reliable. The intelligent charging pile can intelligently identify the owner of the car, plug in the gun and charge, without additional operation; Through the dual connection of 4G and Bluetooth, remote control and management are realized, and functions such as OTA upgrades, appointment authorized anti-theft charging and remote fault diagnosis are supported, and you can enjoy an intelligent and convenient charging experience. In addition, it is also possible to formulate an economical charging scheme according to the peak and valley electricity prices to further reduce the cost of travel.
AITO Q&I M5 adopts a front-axle asynchronous AC motor and rear-axle permanent magnet synchronous motor composed of dual-motor four-wheel drive scheme, of which the four-wheel drive flagship version has a total power of 365kW, 4.4 seconds of acceleration per 100 kilometers, and 0-50km/h acceleration is as low as a staggering 1.9 seconds; The four-wheel drive performance version has a total power of 315 kW, with an acceleration of 4.8 seconds per 100 kilometers and a rear-drive standard version of 7.1 seconds of acceleration per 100 kilometers.
The HUAWEI DriveOne three-in-one electric drive system equipped with the new car uses the industry's first precision oil cooling technology, and the average peak temperature drops by 30° compared with the traditional water-cooled technology to ensure the super stability under the high-speed cruise of the AITO Qijie M5. In addition, the all-aluminium alloy chassis and the independent suspension combination of the front double wishbone/rear trapezoidal multi-link ensure the driving quality of the car.
The AITO Inquisitive M5 is equipped with a total of 4 driving modes of energy saving, comfort, sport and personalization, of which the personality mode contains 4 acceleration modes: soft, standard, powerful, ejection, in addition to 2 energy recovery modes (medium and high) and 3 drive modes (pure electric priority, automatic priority, fuel priority).
At the end of writing, at present, the M5 exhibition car has been in more than a dozen cities, in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu four cities, the order has exceeded 2,000 units on the 3rd, it can be seen that the high-tech flavor emitted by the AITO M5 has captured the hearts of many consumers. If you are interested in this car, you may wish to go to the Huawei store in the big business district to take a look around to ensure that the test car shopping is not wrong, and maybe there will be more surprises.