Wei, Huawei's smart car solution officer, announced on April 6th that 17 On April 6th, a new generation of intelligent pure electric vehicle Alfa S will be unveiled in Shanghai.
Alpha S is an intelligent luxury pure electric vehicle jointly built by Huawei and Beiqi Blue Valley. This car will be equipped with 30+ software and hardware including Huawei lidar.
Beiqi Blue Valley has previously said: This is Huawei's first HI (Huawei Smart Car Solution Brand) tail-mounted car model, and it is Huawei's first floor-mounted model that is truly built in cooperation with automobile manufacturers.
The new car offers two kinds of power and three versions of cruising range. The cruising range of NEDC is 525km, 603km and 708km respectively. Core configuration: L2.5 autopilot, RPA remote sensing parking, three-screen linkage, face recognition, 8-inch display (HUD) and so on.
The rumor that Huawei does not build a "complete vehicle" is still in the ear. The first car jointly built with car companies has landed. Some people may think that Huawei is moving a little fast, but it is not.
20 19 1 1, 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 on 20 17.
At that time, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, said:
Also on 20 19, Huawei released an organizational change document, and established a smart car solution BU, which was managed by 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 does not fully have the ability to build a "complete vehicle".
It is said that interlacing is like a mountain. Although Huawei has made great achievements in major component controllers, new products, lidar and even small rearview mirrors, it has also been teased by netizens: besides chassis, tires and body ..... all it needs is a Logo of the Chrysanthemum Factory.
However, Huawei still has a long way to go to build a complete vehicle. Compared with the simplest number of patents, the number of patents of traditional established giants in one year may be enough for Huawei to study for some time.
According to the "20 19 Automobile Patent Innovation Index" published in 2020, the lowest total number of patents before 10 is GAC:1537; The total amount of BYD is the first: 7438.
Looking at Huawei's patents, it is obviously more inclined to the intelligent field. Whether Huawei has the strength to build a complete vehicle is really open to question.
2. Huawei may not have the "strength" of Xiaomi.
Lei Jun released the news that Xiaomi built a car a few days ago, and claimed that he would personally take the lead.
At that time, there were many comments on the Internet. Why can Xiaomi build a car, but Huawei can't?
First of all, the situation of the two companies is different now. Although Huawei is bigger, it faces more problems. It is this scale that makes Huawei think twice in action.
Xiaomi, on the other hand, is more like traveling light.
Lei Jun said that we can afford 10 year 10 billion USD R&D investment and10.8 billion RMB cash reserve.
Although Huawei spent only one year on research and development, its investment far exceeded Xiaomi 10. However, Huawei's situation is different now. The decline of 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 9 years from its establishment to mass production and delivery of the model;
It took Weilai three years from 1 10,000 sales to 50,000 sales;
Chief Jia's FF ... Let's go.
One more thing, Huawei is not a listed company.
3. Manufacturing the whole vehicle may not be "safe".
At present, most of the core technologies in the automobile field are still in the hands of international giants, and the same automobile manufacturers are also facing the problem of chip shortage.
Who can guarantee that once Huawei enters the vehicle industry, the sea side will not act rashly?
There is such a passage in the document released by Ren:
At this time, Huawei entered the automotive field, taking the lead in realizing independent localization from the aspects of intelligent energy, intelligent driving, intelligent interconnection, intelligent network connection, cloud services, etc., and can also escort domestic independent brands to a certain extent, and create a safe, reliable and non-threatening domestic automobile industry chain for the future.
Of course, we must also consider the issue of business negotiation. Once Huawei enters the vehicle industry, the relationship between them will change, from the original partner to the competitor, which Huawei does not want to see at present.
What Huawei should do now 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 building cars is concerned, Huawei generally believes that:
Therefore, Huawei will not choose to make traditional parts in the short term, and will not choose to build a "complete vehicle", but will deeply cultivate its own intelligence and terminal collaboration.
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