“Huawei Does Not Make Cars” Founder Ren Zhengfei Reiterates

On March thirty first, Huawei’s founder and chairman Ren Zhengfei issued a signed assertion reiterating that “Huawei does not make cars” with an efficient interval of 5 years. In addition, Ren Zhengfei additionally made strict necessities for the show of Huawei’s brand in automobile designs.

The announcement emphasizes that HUAWEI cannot be introduced in automobile promotion and look.” A supply stated, and it particularly identified, “Huawei Wenjie’ and ‘HUAWEI AITO’ cannot be used.

In September 2019, Huawei formally established the Intelligent Automotive Solutions Business Unit, positioning itself as a supplier of “incremental components”. However, given Huawei’s achievements within the cell phone terminal discipline, hypothesis about “Huawei building cars” has by no means stopped within the business.

Therefore, in November 2020, Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei issued a doc emphasizing that “Huawei does not make cars”, and on the identical time sternly said that “whoever proposes to make cars and interferes with the company in the future can be transferred from their position and find another job”. The article additionally indicated on the backside that it might take impact from the date of publication for a interval of three years.

In mid-2021, Richard Yu took over Huawei’s automotive enterprise and led the combination of Huawei’s automotive enterprise unit and client enterprise group. Yu Chengdong turned the general chief. Speculation about Huawei’s automobile manufacturing has as soon as once more emerged.

The subsequent enterprise progress additionally exhibits that the Smart Selection mode led by Richard Yu has helped revive struggling gross sales of Sailesi, and the collectively launched Wenjie mannequin achieved month-to-month gross sales of tens of hundreds.

Afterwards, Richard Yu offered a planning blueprint for the clever automobile, stating that ‘we want to create an open alliance for the Wenjie’.

According to the depth of cooperation with automobile firms, Huawei’s automotive enterprise may be divided into three classes: The main degree of cooperation is promoting components, corresponding to HarmonyOS working system and area controllers.

Secondly, it’s the provide of modular options. Huawei’s deepest tie with automakers is its “HiCar” good automobile answer.

If within the cooperative mannequin of parts and HI options, Huawei remains to be a transparent provider, then within the clever automobile enterprise, Huawei is a deeply cooperative and bundled associate with automakers.

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In phrases of product definition, core element choice, and gross sales service system of HiCar, Huawei might be deeply concerned. The most iconic characteristic is that HiCar will finally be offered in Huawei’s retail shops. The function of automobile firms within the HiCar enterprise focuses extra on automobile improvement and manufacturing.

Especially on March eighth, within the promotional language on social media channels, the unique wording of ‘AITO Wenjie’ was modified to ‘HUAWEI Weijie’. This is seen as a sign that Huawei is additional main the event of AITO vehicles.

No matter how the surface world speculates, Ren Zhengfei’s signed announcement undoubtedly as soon as once more demonstrates Huawei’s place within the automotive enterprise.

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