At the opening day of the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show, Xilis officially launched the Xilis SF5 Huawei Smart Edition jointly created with Huawei, relying on Huawei's name, the order volume exceeded 3,000 vehicles in only two days, and the order volume exceeded 6,000 in a week, and Xilis also became a new upstart at that time from an unknown brand. But after all, the car is not like a mobile phone, it is a bulk consumer product, most consumers are more rational when buying a car, more emphasis on product power, so the final sales of the Xilis SF5 Huawei Smart Edition did not meet Huawei's expectations.
Now, Huawei and Xilix have cooperated for the second time to jointly create a new car brand - AITO. Compared with the first cooperation, Huawei intervened more and participated more deeply this time, its first model M5 was arranged by Huawei in terms of pre-planning or design and marketing, and even core components such as electric drive systems, suspensions, smart cockpits, speakers, screens and so on came from Huawei, in addition to the name of the car without Huawei, the rest of the places are basically related to Huawei, and Xilis retreats behind the scenes.
It is worth noting that at the launch of THE AITO Q&I M5, Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong repeatedly said that the Q&I M5 is comparable to million-level luxury cars, is this really the case? With such a question, I came to Huawei's official experience store to experience this M5 that Huawei is deeply involved in.
The exterior interior is simple and atmospheric 2K screen definition but challenges public perception
The M5 adopts a minimalist design style, which can intuitively see that its vehicle has the charm of a German luxury car, and has been taken into account in terms of sportiness and temperament, and the shadow of the Cyrus SF5 is difficult to see on the M5. The front face line is rounded, and the design cancels the integrated design of the previous Cyris SF5 headlight group day running light and the width indication light strip below, using today's upper and lower split layout, and the headlights and daytime running lights have been redesigned to look more concise and clean.
The side of the vehicle is more sporty, with a clear coupe style, the 20-inch all-aluminum wheels look very atmospheric and stable, and the red calipers add a lot of sportiness to it. In terms of size, the length, width and height are 4770x1930x1625mm, and the wheelbase is 2880mm, which has the standard of a medium-sized SUV. The rear of the M5 adopts the popular through-the-taillight design, and the interior adopts a full LED light source, which not only widens the visual width of the rear, but also makes the vehicle look more refined.
The interior has three colors of agate brown, ivory white and polar night black, in addition to black is the standard, the other two colors need to increase the price of 6,000 yuan. The 15.6-inch central control screen equipped in the interior is a standard rectangular style, compared with the 17.3-inch SF5, the screen resolution is 1920 * 1080, Huawei calls it a 2K screen, which has a certain conflict with the concept of 1440 * 2560 is called a 2k screen. In terms of vehicle chips, according to officials, Kirin chips will be used, but the specific models are still being finally confirmed.
There's no lidar, but fortunately, there's HarmonyOS
Under the general trend of automobile networking and intelligence, the car is no longer a simple travel tool from point A to point B, the car has become a mobile device, which can help drivers use various systems when moving, reduce the responsibility of drivers in the driving process, for Huawei, which has been deeply cultivated in the field of mobile devices for many years, networking and intelligence are the most direct and specific places that can show the gap between other cars and the M5.
The Q&I M5 is equipped with the new HarmonyOS (Hongmeng system) intelligent cockpit, and most of the car machine systems in the current automotive market are different, Huawei has given the M5 equipped with the Hongmeng system more thinking about electronic products, and the car machine not only has a rich window display form such as full-screen, split-screen, and suspended window, but also can intelligently connect with Huawei's smart products. For example, using mobile phones to turn on the air conditioning in the car in advance, remotely controlling the smart home in the home, etc., so that the vehicle becomes a smart terminal that combines people, mobile phones, smart homes, smart watches and other devices.
At the same time, the content ecology of Q&I M5 is quite rich, and huawei music, Huawei video, fighting fish, kugou, himalaya, Youku and other applications have been pre-installed. Huawei's application market, which is designed for smart vehicle scenarios, also provides more downloadable APPS, although the number of apps is not as large as that of mobile phones, but it is believed that it will not take much time to completely open up the mobile terminal and the car-machine terminal with Huawei's strength.
Unfortunately, the Inquisitive M5 is not equipped with the previous brilliant LiDAR, only support L2 + automatic assisted driving, whether it is the ideal ONE of the same extended-range car, or alpha S, Xiaopeng P5, or Weilai ET7, Weima M7 and other upcoming vehicles are equipped with lidar, as a vehicle launched at the end of 2021, the Inquisitive M5 does not highlight Huawei's advantages in automatic driving, reducing the attractiveness, so that consumers have lost a certain amount of imagination space for it. It is not known whether such a choice is to control costs or whether Huawei has made concessions in terms of intelligent driving.
Although the power comparison is slightly exaggerated, the chassis is real
The Q&I M5 is equipped with Huawei's HUAWEI DriveONE pure electric drive range extender platform, which is composed of Xiaokang Power's 1.5T four-cylinder range extender and Huawei's asynchronous AC motor and permanent magnet synchronous motor, and the 1.5T four-cylinder engine can generate 3.2 kWh of oil as a range extender, which can bring NEDC working conditions with an endurance of 1195 kilometers. In terms of power data, the peak power of the M5 can reach 365kW, and it only takes 4.4 seconds to complete the 0-100km/h acceleration, although this value looks like it can really be comparable to the million-level luxury car, but it is a luxury car based on comfort, and now the new energy vehicles are not to say zero hundred acceleration to break five seconds, breaking four seconds is also everywhere, the most direct example is the Model 3 and Han EV, and the price of these two cars is also comparable to the M5. In addition, the GAC AION LX Plus, which was just listed on January 6, accelerated even in 2.9 seconds, and the price was only about 300,000, and the power was comparable to that of a million-dollar luxury car.
In terms of chassis, the M5 is indeed the use of real materials, the use of all-aluminum alloy chassis, with the front double wishbone independent suspension, rear multi-link independent suspension, compared to most of the vehicles on the market with the front McPherson suspension, the front double wishbone independent suspension swing arm in the part shape variable is small, has better orientation, the sportiness is also better, at the same time such a chassis suspension with the vehicle suspension structure height is reduced, does not encroach on the fender space, such a chassis design is mostly used in the luxury model, The chassis of the Q&I M5 is called the Million Luxury Car chassis design by Huawei or there is no problem.
Overall, this AITO Q&A M5, which is covered with Huawei LOGO, is not as exaggerated as Yu Chengdong said, and can truly be comparable to a million-level luxury car, but this car is indeed commendable in some areas, especially in the smart cockpit. In the face of the new product that is deeply bound to Huawei, we must not deny its advantages because of the Cyrus SF5, for consumers who still have doubts about this car, you only need to wait and see, waiting for the M5 to be verified by the market.