Compared with the slightly hasty time on the Xilis SF5, the Q&I M5 can be described as the first masterpiece created by Huawei. From the vehicle platform, driving assistance, intelligent cockpit and even the design of the whole vehicle, there are Elements of Huawei. With the model starting to accept reservations in January, 2022 will become the first year of Huawei's "real car".
Huawei's car is only one of the best time to officially announce
Huawei is still more just hoping to be a supplier in the era of intelligent and connected cars, after all, car manufacturing is not Huawei's strength. In the field of intelligent networking, especially in terms of automatic driving, Huawei believes that its accumulation in the field of communications and ICT is a kind of dimensionality reduction attack. In fact, Huawei's autonomous driving capabilities can also enter the mainstream in China.
However, from Baidu, it can be found that the main engine factory still has a strong wariness against the core system supplier of automatic driving, especially suppliers like Baidu and Huawei, which can build cars at any time with their own volume and accumulation. Therefore, although Baidu Apollo's capabilities have been recognized by all parties, no oem has ever chosen to install the Apollo system on the mass production model, which eventually forced Baidu to form a joint venture with Geely to build a car.
For Huawei, although it has won the orders of BAIC, Changan and GAC, leaving aside the current poor situation of BAIC, Changan and GAC will certainly spend a lot of energy on self-developed three-electric systems, intelligent cockpits and automatic driving systems, and Huawei is certainly not the only supplier.
So if you look at it in the long run, Huawei will inevitably need to build its own cars to ensure that its technology can reach consumers. However, before personally building a car, whether it can accumulate enough experience and understand the set of playing methods of the main engine factory is the homework that Huawei needs to complete. At this point, Cyrus is a good platform.
Why choose a range extender?
If Huawei has any technology in smart electric vehicles that has not been accumulated, it must be the on-board power battery. That being the case, developing a range extender model can minimize reliance on battery manufacturers.
The M5 is equipped with the HUAWEI DriveONE pure electric drive range extender platform, the core of which is a 1.5T four-cylinder range extender 3.0, and a 40kwh power battery. This range extender can generate 3.2 kWh of oil per liter of oil, and the vehicle can achieve CLTC service life of 1242 kilometers when fully charged.
At present, among the new domestic power brands, the bicycle sales champion is firmly held by the ideal ONE. In the end, many consumers still have some concerns about the battery, the use of extenders, at least in the current can enjoy the license and the right of way tilt, for the world can start the first shot laid a more solid foundation.
Even after 2023, the state will no longer introduce a policy tilt for the power system of extended range. However, from the perspective of the use experience of domestic consumers and a variety of use scenarios, combined with the increasingly strict double integration policy, various forms of hybrid technology will be the best alternative technology to the traditional internal combustion engine system, and the market prospect is still promising.
Smart Cockpit Vs Autonomous Driving
AiTO Q&I M5 is the first model on the market equipped with the new HarmonyOS smart cockpit, which takes over Huawei's current accumulation in the Internet ecology and becomes a walking Huawei mobile phone.
Specifically, Harmony OS integrates Huawei's flagship products such as voice interaction, Xiaoyi suggestions, car map Petal Maps, and all-round digital car keys, and relies on the Huawei application market to ensure that consumers can always download the latest third-party applications. In addition, the HUAWEI SOUND sound system combined with Huawei video can also provide customers with a better audio-visual feast.
Therefore, the Q&I M5 intelligent cockpit, which is built on the basis of Huawei's ecology, is in a relatively leading position among similar models in China.
However, people who know the M5 will notice that the biggest weakness or flaw of this model is that it is not equipped with Huawei's HI system, which can only provide the more mainstream L2 level driving assistance functions. This is not only a big gap compared with Tesla, "Wei Xiaoli" and other new power brands with pilot functions, but also in the future there is no way to continuously upgrade the relevant systems to the level of L4 automatic driving through optimization, which has to be said to be a big regret.
According to relevant reports, the number of orders has approached 10,000 units a week after the release of the M5. If the relevant figures are accurate, this is a very good result, after all, the price of the three versions of the model provided by the M5 after the listing of the Q&I, the price range after the subsidy is also between 250,000 and 320,000 yuan, which is not cheap. Obviously, as a product that Huawei personally handles, it does not want to seize market share through cost performance. Huawei, which is not bad at money, has a very clear layout and ambition in the smart electric vehicle market.
As mentioned above, once the AITO brand can stand firm, and with the expiration of Huawei's "EMT without car" document for three years, huawei at that time is an option for Huawei to buy the full shares of Xilis and the well-off shares behind it, or to reapply to create a new brand.
The answer to all this will be revealed in 2022: if the Q&I M5 is the same as the Cyrus SF5, then Huawei's car-making enthusiasm may be extinguished a lot; but if the Q&A M5 can approach the ideal ONE, then the day Huawei makes cars will not be too far away.