Huawei has two of the most important press conferences every year, at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year, for the spring and winter launches. At the spring 2021 conference, Huawei released the Mate X2 folding screen mobile phone, and it is no exaggeration to say that this phone is the best folding screen mobile phone at present, and there is no one. At the winter conference, Huawei released a folding screen mobile phone, P50 Pocket. But this time, the P50 Pocket does not seem to be the focus, there is a new thing that first appeared at Huawei's conference, and the last appearance, it is a car - the Q&A M5.
Making mobile phones, Huawei is professional, whether it is Mate X2 or P50 Pocket, it is enough to make people amazing. But when it comes to cars, Huawei still shows some jerkiness. When Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business and CEO of smart car solution BU, said about the product power of the Q&I M5, the car conference was also full of digital flavor. From the Q&I M5 in this product, we can also find that it is indeed good enough in the field of intelligence that Huawei is good at, but it is a bit unsatisfactory in other aspects.
Q&I M5 comes from a new brand- AITO, but this brand also belongs to the company Ofcon Cyrus, so it is inseparable from the Cyrus brand. From the design, we can also find that they have many similarities, and the M5 seems to be the Xilix SF5 after Huawei's redecorated.
Yes, this time Huawei not only provided a smart car solution, but also participated in the design of the M5, which according to Yu Chengdong, was made by their mobile phone industrial design team. It can only be said that there is still a big difference between designing mobile phones and designing cars, because Huawei's mobile phones are good enough, but the M5 is very mediocre, and it does not have the sense of surprise that Huawei mobile phones bring us. However, there is one thing to say, after Huawei participated in the design, the interior design of the Q&C M5 was still greatly improved compared to the Competition Force SF5.
So the question is, the car is designed by Huawei, the electric drive platform is also provided by Huawei, Xilis just provides a 1.5T range extender and is responsible for the manufacture of the M5, and the sales channel is also in the Huawei retail store, so is this not a Huawei car? If this does not count, then can Weilai also say that it does not build cars? After all, the cars are all produced by JAC.
The Q&I M5 is positioned as a mid-size SUV with range extender hybrid power and a 1.5T four-cylinder range extender plus a rear single motor or dual front and rear motors. Among them, the rear-drive version equipped with a rear-mounted single motor accelerates by 7.1 seconds from 100 kilometers and has a pre-price of 250,000 yuan; the four-wheel drive version equipped with a front-and-rear dual motor accelerates by 4.8 seconds (performance version) or 4.4 seconds (flagship version), the performance version is pre-priced at 280,000 yuan, and the flagship version is pre-priced at 320,000 yuan. Compared with the ideal ONE, the advantage of the M5 is mainly in performance, and the ideal ONE wins in space.
Space, on the other hand, is a major shortcoming of the M5. Its wheelbase is close to 2 meters 9, the length is close to 4 meters 8, and the width of the car is more than 1 meter 9, but the use of space inside is not high. Especially considering that the ideal ONE and Landu FREE, which are similar to its price, are medium and large SUVs, and there are 6-seat or 7-seat versions, the Inquisitive M5 lags a lot behind in space. After all, most people who buy range extender hybrids have the need for long-distance self-driving, and there are high requirements for space, if they are only used in the city, it is completely possible to buy a more powerful pure electric vehicle. So the product positioning of the Q&A M5 is problematic.
Although the positioning of the M5 is somewhat biased, and the design is relatively general, it is indeed very prominent in terms of intelligence. It is the first smart car equipped with Hongmeng system, so it can be well transmitted and communicated with other Hongmeng devices, and your mobile phone, watch, and smart home appliances can be interconnected with the car. And in the use of the car system, whether it is the design of the UI or the fluency and logic of use, these are very outstanding, after all, Huawei is making mobile phones, so in these aspects compared to the ideal ONE, Lantu FREE these models do have more advantages.
In addition to Hongmeng's intelligent cockpit, the Inquisitive M5 has performed well in intelligent assisted driving. I believe that everyone still remembers the intelligent assisted driving solution provided by Huawei to Jihu, which is very good and once amazed the industry. Although the intelligent assisted driving on the Q&I M5 is not as high-level as on the Jihu model, with the blessing of Huawei, it also has more advantages than competitors of the same level.
This is also what the opening paragraph said, in the field of intelligent cockpit and intelligent assisted driving that Huawei is good at, the Q&I M5 is excellent enough, but in the quality of the car itself, the Q&I M5 is mediocre. It can only be said that there is still a big difference between building a car and making a mobile phone. But maybe it's not exactly Huawei's problem, but also the problem of Kimcomcelis.
Some people may ask, since Huawei is so strong, why not find a strong auto company? Instead, he chose the fledgling Kim Concellies. I think Huawei has no choice, because the strong one already has a relatively complete set of its own system, and it is impossible to completely deny itself and choose Huawei. So in the end, Huawei can only find the kind of company that does not yet have the strength, it can learn a lot in this kind of enterprise, but also as a practice, maybe one day suddenly announced the car, the birth of the real Huawei car.