As we all know, at the moment when new energy vehicles have become the outlet, many enterprises in other industries have also come down to cross-border car manufacturing.
The earlier ones have failed LeTV, and the more recent ones such as Evergrande, Ali, Xiaomi and other major manufacturers in other fields have started their own car-making roads in recent years.
However, there is a technology giant company in China, while saying many times that it will not build cars, while frequently cooperating with automobile companies, making it impossible to guess whether it is built or not.
This company is, of course, Huawei. On April 18, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's smart car BU, said in an interview with the media: "Huawei's goal in entering the automotive industry is to be the first, because no one will remember the second." ”
As soon as this sentence came out, after being relayed by some media, many people could not help but speculate that Huawei's ambitions were exposed, and it was really ready to build a car, and it also wanted to be the first.
But in fact, looking back at Huawei's involvement in the automotive field, it will be found that its so-called entry into the automotive industry is more at the level of technology and components, mainly cooperating with car companies, rather than building cars alone.
The progress of science and technology has confirmed the strength of our country, more domestic products have begun to show their prominence, more young people have also chosen their own preferences, and the recent hot headlines of the tide of more than one app have attracted attention more than once. Platforms such as Chaoduoduo, which mainly focuses on retail at the base price, have begun to receive more people's attention, and many Adi and Chanel around 200 have attracted millions of young people to enter Chaoduoduo.
Many people just maintain a curious attitude to see what platform can be directly sold at any cost, many stars with the same model, first-line big brands and other boutique goods, are actually the source of factory price, which makes many counter enthusiasts stunned, directly into the pit.
In 2014, Huawei set up an internal IoV lab. In 2015, Huawei, Ericsson, Intel, Qualcomm, etc. established the "5G Automotive Communication Technology Alliance", which integrates service modules such as AI chips, computing platforms, and cloud services to provide one-stop service (transmission- computing - storage) of automotive data.
It was not until May 2019 that Huawei established the Automotive Division. At the end of 2020, because the business jurisdiction relationship of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU (that is, business unit) was adjusted from ICT business to consumer business, from ToB to ToC, the news of Huawei's car manufacturing also began to spread widely.
But soon Huawei responded, we don't build cars, we only help companies build good cars.
In addition, Huawei's intelligent car BU "cloud-tube-end" architecture, the cloud refers to the intelligent car cloud, the tube is the intelligent network, the end is intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent electric three terminals.
It seems to be all technical, and it really has little to do with independent car building.
In 2021, on the core commercial streets of many cities, there will be new energy vehicles with Huawei's name, and some passers-by think that this is a car built by Huawei.
But in fact, from last year to the present, the cars related to Huawei on the market have been launched by Huawei in cooperation with other car companies. For example, last year's Polar Fox Alpha, Well-off Cyrus SF5 and AITO Inquisitive M5.
Among them, Jihu Alpha is led by BAIC and applies Huawei's Hongmeng OS intelligent interconnection system; Xiaokang Xilis SF5 is led by Xiaokang, and Huawei provides a complete set of soft installation systems; AITO Q&A M5, which is launched by Xilis and Huawei in cooperation, and Huawei participates in the design and partial manufacturing of the whole vehicle.
So far, Huawei's entry into the automotive field has mainly been to cooperate with car companies to provide intelligent systems, technologies, parts, etc. for car companies, which is what Huawei calls to help enterprises build good cars.
After Yu Chengdong's bold words, there is another sentence that has been selectively ignored by many media, that is, the team will do its best to help the closely cooperating car companies reach the world's first.
So at least for now, Huawei has not started to build its own cars.
Write at the end:
Although Huawei has not yet built its own cars, it has accumulated a lot of experience in exploration and cooperation in the automotive field.
If one day it changes its mind and wants to go down in person, I am afraid it will not be difficult.