Internet tycoons and technology giants are either building cars or releasing new cars. In contrast, Huawei still insists on not building complete vehicles, focusing on ICT technology to help car companies build good cars and become an incremental component provider of intelligent networked vehicles.
Huawei's smart car solution officer announced on April 6th that on April 17th, a new generation of intelligent pure electric car Alfa S will be unveiled in Shanghai.
Alfa S is an intelligent luxury pure electric car jointly built by Huawei and Beiqi Blue Valley. This car will be equipped with 3+ software and hardware including Huawei lidar.
BAIC Blue Valley has previously said: This is Huawei's first HI (Huawei Smart Car Solution Brand) tail-mounted vehicle model, which is the first landing vehicle model built by Huawei in real cooperation with car manufacturers.
the new car offers two power and three cruising range versions, and the cruising range of NEDC is 525km, 63km and 78km respectively. Core configuration: L2.5 automatic driving, RPA remote sensing parking, three-screen linkage, face recognition, 8-inch display (HUD) and so on.
The rumor that Huawei won't build a "complete vehicle" is still in our ears, and the first car jointly built with car companies has already landed. Some people may feel that Huawei's action is a bit fast, but it is not.
In November 219, Beijing New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. and Huawei signed a framework agreement for deepening strategic cooperation. This agreement is further deepened on the basis of the strategic cooperation agreement signed in 217.
Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei at that time, said:
Also in 219, Ren Zhengfei issued an organizational change document, and Huawei set up a smart car solution BU, which is under the management of the ICT Management Committee.
No one can guarantee that Huawei will not build a "complete vehicle" in the future, but it is really not a good opportunity for Huawei at present.
1. Huawei is not fully capable of building "complete vehicles".
It is said that interlacing is like a barrier. Although Huawei has made some achievements in major component controllers, new products, laser radars and even rearview mirrors, it has also been teased by netizens: except chassis, tires and body ...... he only needs a chrysanthemum factory Logo.
However, Huawei still has a long way to go to build a complete vehicle. Comparing with the simplest number of patents, one year's patents of traditional and established giants may be enough for Huawei to study for a while.
A report published in 22 on "Automotive Patent Innovation Index in 219" shows that Guangzhou Automobile has the lowest total number of patents in the top 1: 1537; The total amount of BYD is the first: 7438.
if we look at Huawei's patents again, it is obviously more inclined to the field of intelligence. Whether Huawei has the strength to build a complete vehicle is really open to question.
2. Huawei may not have Xiaomi's "strength".
Lei Jun announced the news that Xiaomi was building a car a few days ago, and claimed that he would personally take the lead.
For a time, there was a lot of discussion on the Internet. Why can Xiaomi build a car, but Huawei won't?
First of all, the two companies are in different situations. Although Huawei is bigger, it faces more problems. It is this size that makes Huawei think twice more about its actions.
Xiaomi, on the other hand, is more like traveling light.
Lei Jun said that we can afford to invest $1 billion in R&D in 1 years and have a cash reserve of RMB 18 billion.
though, Huawei spent more money on research and development in just one year than Xiaomi did in the past 1 years. However, Huawei's current situation is different. The decline in mobile phone business has brought about a sharp drop in revenue. The most important thing is to seek hedging business.
but it is a long process to really enter the whole vehicle and realize mass production.
it took Tesla nine years from its establishment to mass production and delivery of models;
It took Weilai three years to sell from 1, to 5,.
General Manager Jia's FF ... Come on.
one more thing, Huawei is not a listed company.
3. Building a complete vehicle may not be "safe".
at present, most of the core technologies in the automotive field are still in the hands of international giants, and the same car manufacturers are also facing the problem of chip shortage.
who can guarantee that once Huawei enters the vehicle industry, Haiwai will not make a move?
There is a passage in the document issued by Ren Zhengfei:
At this time, Huawei entered the automobile field, taking the lead in realizing independent localization from the aspects of intelligent energy, intelligent driving, intelligent interconnection, intelligent networking and cloud services, and can also escort domestic independent brands to a certain extent, so as to build a complete set of safe, reliable and non-threatening domestic automobile industry chain in the future.
Of course, we should also consider the issue of business negotiation. Once Huawei enters the vehicle industry, the relationship between them will change, from the original partner to a competitor, which Huawei does not want to see at present.
It's still what Huawei needs to do now, that is, not to build cars, not to compete with major manufacturers, to be a good supplier and to do incremental business.
As far as the value generated by making cars is concerned, Huawei generally believes that:
Therefore, it is highly probable that Huawei will not choose to make traditional parts in the short term, let alone build "complete vehicles", but will deeply cultivate its own intelligence and terminal collaboration.
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