Author: Wei Xing
Editor: Pan Tan
On the afternoon of March 23rd, Huawei held a Spring Flagship Product Launch Conference, announcing a slew of new products including Huawei P60/Pro/Art series, Huawei Mate X3/Collections series, Huawei MatePad 11, Huawei FreeBuds Pro 2+, Huawei FreeBuds 5, Huawei Changxiang 60, Huawei WATCH Ultimate Master, Huawei TalkBand B7, Huawei Qingyun S540/G540, Huawei Lingxiao Parent-child Router Q6, and many more.
At the end of the nearly four-hour-long event, “one more thing.” Yu Chengdong, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei’s Terminal BG and CEO of the Intelligent Automotive Solution Business Unit, mentioned a few snippets of news about their new car.
A quick glance at the news about new cars
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By the end of this month, all models of Onestar will be upgraded to HarmonyOS 3.0.
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The net recommendation score of Onestar M5 drivers is as high as 86.4%, and the Onestar brand ranks No.1 in new energy vehicle quality ranking among new car brands.
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Huawei controls the product design and quality, and Huawei’s quality standards far exceed those of all automakers and the automotive industry.
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With strict control of product quality, there have been zero incidents of self-ignition of Onestar vehicles so far.
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The high-end intelligent driving version of M5/M5EV will be launched in April.
In terms of news about the car, Yu Chengdong announced at the conference that the Onestar M5, M5EV, and M7 models that are currently on sale will all be upgraded to HarmonyOS 3.0 via OTA by the end of this month.
HarmonyOS 3.0 will support HUD height adaptive adjustment, Xiaoyi reminder, PC collaboration, shared mobile network, super desktop, smart car searching, driver’s privacy mode, and Xiao Yi wake-up-free. It brings a new experience to the intelligent cabin.
The second message is that WEY brand ranked NO.1 in the new energy vehicle quality ranking, with the net recommendation rate of 86.4% for the WEY M5 car owners.
Yu Chengdong also stated that Huawei strictly controls product quality, and Huawei’s quality standard is much higher than that of all car manufacturers and the automotive industry. Many car manufacturers’ products cannot be put into production under Huawei’s standards. He also claimed that “WEY cars have not experienced any spontaneous combustion incidents so far.”
He said that he knew that some brand’s cars are burning every day, and finally, they are all “dealt with.”
The third message is that the WEY M5/M5EV high-end intelligent driving version will be launched in April.
Previously, the new car had been declared to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The main difference between the appearance of the new car and the currently sold WEY M5 is that it is equipped with a roof-mounted lidar and two ADAS cameras on the front fenders.
The changes in the appearance are mainly in the front headlights, which are now the same as those of the current M5 EV, while the styles for the extended-range version and the EV version were different.
In terms of power, the extended-range generator still uses a 1.5T engine with a power of 112 kW, which has been increased by 20 kW compared to the current version. The rear-wheel-drive version has a motor power of 200 kW, and the front and rear motor powers of the four-wheel-drive version are 165 kW and 200 kW, respectively.
Yu Chengdong said that the new car will be equipped with Huawei’s latest ADAS 2.0 version, which will not rely on high-precision maps. Over-reliance on high-precision maps poses significant problems, as China’s roads are changing every day, and it is impossible to widely promote them. High-precision maps are costly, and collecting them across the country is very challenging. It took a long time to complete the small roads in Shanghai alone. The road conditions collected today may have changed tomorrow. Therefore, in the future, BEV + mechanical data + fusion perception will be used to achieve advanced “automatic” driving.With the support of Huawei’s full-stack technology, the new car will bring an “unprecedented” intelligent driving experience.
This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.