At Huawei's full-scenario press conference held on the eve of the Shanghai Auto Show, the Wenjie M5 Smart Driving Edition was officially launched, with 4 models launched, with a price range of 279,800-309,800 yuan, and the pre-sale period (4.17-6.30) You can enjoy multiple first-selling rights. The entire series comes standard with the basic package + advanced package of ADS2.0, and you can choose the high-end package independently. The buyout price is 36,000 yuan, the annual rent is 7,200 yuan, and the monthly rent is 720 yuan. At the same time, Wenjie M9 made its debut and started pre-sales. It will be officially launched in the fourth quarter of this year and is expected to sell for 500,000-600,000 yuan.
As a mid-term facelift model, the Wenjie M5 smart driving version has seen changes in appearance. In addition to the extended-range version having the same double-lens headlights as the pure electric version, the entire series has also added It is equipped with lidar on the roof and forehead, and smart driving cameras on the front fenders on both sides. The new car is also equipped with new-style 20-inch wheels, and the drag coefficient is reduced to 0.26 (EV) and 0.28 (extended range) respectively.
In terms of interiors, the extended-range version is also equipped with the pure electric version’s dual-camera wireless charging and open dual cup holders. The backs of the front seats are also equipped with magic suction car interfaces. Huawei tablets can be plugged and connected for wireless charging and multi-screen interconnection and mutual control. In terms of the smart cabin, the HarmonyOS 3.0 system will be upgraded, the system fluency will be greatly optimized, and the voice and application operation response will be comprehensively improved compared to 2.0.
In terms of smart driving, the new car comes standard with 1 lidar, 3 millimeter wave radars, 11 cameras, and 12 ultrasonic radars, with a detection range of up to 200m, and the computing unit is replaced with Huawei's self-developed MDC610 smart car. The driving computing platform has a dense computing power of up to 200TOPS (equivalent to 544TOPS sparse computing power), a data processing capacity of 1GB/s, 360-degree full-range coverage and full-travel perception. The standard configuration has high-speed NCA function, but urban NCA needs to be equipped with the high-end package to achieve it.
HUAWEI ADS 2.0 is further enhanced based on the road topology reasoning network. It can understand various road elements such as roads and traffic lights even without high-precision maps. This system can cover 90% of urban scenes, and can pass smoothly at complex intersections and scenes where people and vehicles are mixed. It can actively overtake and change lanes, and get out of trouble and change lanes, greatly improving travel efficiency. High-speed NCA's ability to face up and down ramps, obstacle avoidance, road construction and other scenarios has been further improved, and the average manual takeover mileage has increased from 100km in 1.0 to 200km. Smart parking includes APA (intelligent parking assist), RPA (remote parking assist), and AVP (valet parking assist, which will be implemented by the end of 2023).
In terms of power, the new car offers single-motor rear drive and dual-motor four-wheel drive options. The whole series is equipped with a 200kW, 360N·m rear motor. The four-wheel drive version adds a 165kW, 315N·m front motor, which is extremely fast. They are 200km/h and 210km/h respectively; the acceleration from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers is 7.1s (rear-wheel drive), 4.4s (extended-range four-wheel drive), and 4.5s (pure electric four-wheel drive). The extended-range version is equipped with a 92kW 1.5T range extender with a rated power of 60kW, WLTC fuel consumption of 0.53L/100km, and is equipped with a 40kWh ternary lithium battery (CATL). The CLTC pure electric range is 255km (rear drive)/230km (four-wheel drive). CLTC has a cruising range of 1,425km and supports 73kW fast charging and 3.5kW external discharge. The pure electric version is equipped with an 80kWh ternary lithium battery, and the CLTC pure electric range is 602km (rear-wheel drive) and 534km (four-wheel drive).
At the end of the press conference, Wenjie M9 made a stunning appearance as the "one more thing" Easter egg. Yu Chengdong said that "Wenjie M9 will be the best SUV within 10 million yuan," surpassing what he could mention. All ultra-luxury SUVs. The new car will be available in an extended-range version and a pure electric version. If you book now, you can enjoy double the deposit (5,000 yuan equal to 10,000 yuan), priority experience, priority test drive, priority delivery, and attend the press conference/visit the factory.
The appearance is basically consistent with the patent pictures we have previously exposed. At the same time, Yu Chengdong announced that the car has a length of 5230mm and a wheelbase of 3110mm. It is built on the new D-class luxury SUV platform and comes standard with air suspension CDC. This platform has over 80% aluminum materials, an all-aluminum alloy chassis and the world's largest one-piece die-cast aluminum body. The application of a 9,000-ton die-casting process reduces the number of body-in-white parts by 95% and the number of connection points by 70%.
According to the casting pictures released by Huawei, the Wenjie M9 will be the world's first model with one-piece die-cast rear body side panels.
In terms of intelligence, Wenjie M9 has almost all the previously released products of Huawei’s smart car solutions, including but not limited to megapixel smart projector headlights HUAWEI XPIXEL, HUAWEI SOUND and Shi Rhodes scattering acoustic technology, HUAWEI XHUD AR-HUD (maximum 75-inch color display) deeply integrated with ADS, Harmony OS 4.0 Hongmeng cockpit and other technologies. In addition, the Wenjie M9 adopts an oversized flat floor and a three-row, six-seat layout. All seats support electric adjustment, allowing 3/4/5/6-seat modes to be changed at will.
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