Since its official release at Huawei's winter flagship new product launch conference on December 23 last year, the popularity of AITO Q&A M5 has not been low.
This new car, which is developed, procured and manufactured by Xilix and is responsible for product design, quality control and channel sales by Huawei, is the top model among the current new energy vehicles.
In January 2022, the Q&I M5 arrived in Huawei stores.
From Shanghai Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street all the way forward, you can see the huge poster advertisement of the M5, in this Huawei global flagship store at No. 233 Nanjing Road, Shanghai, although there is no Huawei logo on the car, but with Huawei's mobile phones, tablets, smart screens and other products to share the same space of aiTO M5, is placed in the "C position" that can be seen when entering the door.
The first time I saw the real car of the Q&I M5, I felt that compared with the Cyrus SF5 that Huawei also cooperated with Cyrus before, the improvement in texture of the ATIO Q&I M5 was all-round.
In terms of appearance, the black horizontal grille + closed front design + sharp shark fin headlights make the whole car look quite combatant, the side lines are equally smooth and delicate, the tail shape is biased towards full and rounded, and the popular through-the taillight design is used, and the trunk opening button is hidden on the wiper base, which is a unique design.
The only thing that needs to be complained about in the body may be the hidden door handle with excessive rebound force, if the handle is not pulled out of the gap between the door handle and the door in time after pulling the door, the larger rebound force is still very likely to appear "thug" situation.
The improvement in appearance is to meet the performance of a 300,000 yuan new energy vehicle. The interior is the core competitiveness of the M5.
However, sitting in the car of the M5, at first glance, it may not look like there are too many innovative elements. The "traditional" full LCD instrument, the common floating central control screen and the Nappa leather-covered center console and seat feel like a luxuriously positioned smart car. But when the screen is lit, the whole car looks very different.
Because the AITO Q&I M5's car engine system uses Hongmeng HarmonyOS.
This 15.6-inch 2K HDR central control screen, first of all, from the point of view of delicacy and perception, exceeds most new energy vehicles, not to mention the smooth experience brought by Hongmeng OS.
Compared with other OEMs' systems, Hongmeng car machine mainly plays the "one-step direct" concept, which avoids many so-called "silly logic" that can be achieved by the second-level menu or even the third-level menu, the system only retains a single operation level, as long as you have the need, after customizing all modules, you can also achieve the same convenience as the physical buttons, which is also the high efficiency result brought by the underlying logic of Hongmeng.
Different from the logic of traditional auto companies to create car machine systems, Huawei's Hongmeng OS will increase the animation effect of fading in and out when the function enters and exits, which greatly enhances the user's perception and smooth sense of experience. Whether it is learning cost, fluency or feature richness, Hongmeng OS has reached the current first-class level.
Even if you still have concerns about the full-screen operation, the Hongmeng OS smart cockpit also has a powerful voice dialogue function, which not only responds quickly and has high recognition ability, but also supports continuous dialogue to synchronously open various functional applications, and can also interject at any time to terminate the application operation.
In addition, Hongmeng OS's voice assistant "Xiaoyi" also has a smart butler function, as long as the voice informs it of the to-do list, the "Internet of Everything" of the Hongmeng system will synchronize other terminals, for consumers using Huawei's smart terminals, this kind of car and life fully interconnected experience is difficult to obtain on other models. As for emerging functions such as fatigue monitoring, smart watch keys, and navigation sent to the car, the Q&I M5 is also fully covered, and Hongmeng OS can be said to have opened a new door for the owners of the Q&I M5.
However, Hongmeng OS is still a certain distance from the "complete body" at this stage. For example, Huawei's parallel vision (split screen display) is not optimized in place in the car machine system, such as when starting the parallel horizon, it needs to rely on the navigation function to carry out, which means that it cannot achieve the split screen use of any two programs, and the proportion of the split screen cannot be adjusted freely. Although the M5's car machine system looks like a Huawei tablet, there is still a big gap compared with the freedom on Huawei's tablet.
Of course, these functions can be upgraded and optimized through future OTAs, but even if there are some deficiencies, the Hongmeng OS system equipped with the M5 has stood in the first echelon of domestic smart cars from the smoothness of operation and the level of intelligence.
In addition to the intelligent car machine, Huawei also gives great support in terms of power, the point go system of the range extender power of the Q&I M5, using Huawei's DriveONE platform solution, under the optimization of Huawei, the Q&I M5 can achieve 4.4 seconds to break the hundred, while also achieving a pure electric WTLC cruising range of 150km and a full power clTC cruising range of 1242km.
Q&I M5 released 96 hours of booking has exceeded 6500 units, in the scene we also saw an endless stream of car users, this pre-priced 250,000-320,000 yuan new car has obviously had a lot of attention. However, it should take a long time to achieve the goal of "30,000 vehicles per month" expected by Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU.