Key Highlights:

• The updated 2026 Stelato S9 launches in November 2025 under the Huawei–BAIC partnership.
  
• Features Huawei’s latest Qiankun ADS 4 intelligent driving system and 800V fast-charging EV tech.
  
• Marks Huawei’s deepening move into premium electric mobility through its Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA).

A New Step in Huawei’s Auto Journey

Huawei and Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) are set to launch the refreshed Stelato S9 in November 2025. The luxury sedan, positioned as a flagship under Huawei’s Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA), showcases how the tech giant is embedding its smart systems deeper into the automotive industry. This will be the first major update since the S9 debuted in August 2024.

Although the car carries Huawei’s design and technology, it isn’t built by Huawei itself. Instead, it represents the company’s growing collaborations with major automakers to bring its hardware, software, and smart driving technologies to the road.

Elegant Design and Refined Details

The 2026 Stelato S9 retains its large, flowing sedan design but adds new premium styling touches. The front continues with Huawei’s signature “Universe Headlight” layout, now upgraded to the “Brilliant Star River” design. A new “Universe Star” emblem and a “Nebula Through-type” taillight bar give it a more futuristic look.

With a length of 5.16 meters and a wheelbase of 3.05 meters, the sedan promises spacious interiors, particularly focusing on rear-seat comfort and luxury. Customization options include unique trims, alloy wheels, and electronic side mirrors.

Intelligent Driving and Power Options

One of the biggest upgrades is the introduction of Huawei’s Qiankun ADS 4 autonomous driving system. The setup includes 4 LiDARs, 4D radar, and 36 sensors for 360° environmental awareness. This technology enables advanced driver-assistance and semi-autonomous driving features.

Buyers can choose between two versions: a pure electric (EV) model built on an 800V platform with a range of over 800 km, or an extended-range electric (EREV) model that offers up to 1,300 km using a gasoline-powered generator. Prices start at RMB 309,800 (≈ USD 43,500).

Strengthening China’s EV Ecosystem

The Stelato S9 isn’t Huawei’s first car, but it is the first vehicle co-developed with BAIC, expanding Huawei’s automotive footprint beyond its existing Aito, Luxeed, and Maextro brands. This collaboration reflects Huawei’s goal of merging AI, smart sensors, and EV technology into mainstream cars, strengthening China’s position in the global electric vehicle market.

For consumers, this means smarter, more connected cars at competitive prices, while for the industry, it signals a new phase where tech firms rival traditional automakers in innovation and intelligence.

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Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (BG), introduced the Luxeed S7 (ZhiJie S7) electric sedan, signaling Huawei’s entry into the automotive sector. The event not only unveiled this groundbreaking vehicle but also hinted at a prospective partnership with FAW Group, a key manufacturing ally of Volkswagen and Toyota, potentially becoming the newest addition to Huawei’s burgeoning car alliance. This development sets the groundwork for Huawei’s dynamic venture into the electric vehicle (EV) market.

Strategic Collaboration and Cooperation Models

Huawei’s partnership with notable car manufacturers has taken the form of standardized parts supply models, the “Huawei Inside” (HI) model, and the Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA). HIMA, representing the deepest level of cooperation, involves select vehicle partners as investment cooperation targets. Notably, current HIMA products include the “WenJie” (AITO) SUV co-developed with Seres and the “ZhiJie” (Luxeed) electric sedan co-developed with Chery. Future models, including two additional “Jie” from BAIC (“XiangJie”) and JAC (“AoJie”), underscore Huawei’s commitment to innovation and collaboration in the electric vehicle space.

Market Impact and Recent Partnerships

The Luxeed S7 launch event sparked a late-session rally in the automobile manufacturing sector. Chinese automobile manufacturing companies like FAW and FAWAY hit their maximum daily price increase, and BAIC BluePark came close to reaching its daily limit. JAC Motors and Seres followed an upward trend, reflecting the positive market reception of Huawei’s endeavors in the automotive industry.

A recent memorandum of investment cooperation signed between Changan Automobile and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on November 25th further solidified Huawei’s presence in the electric vehicle sector. The agreement outlined plans to establish a joint company focusing on research, design, production, sales, and service of intelligent automotive systems and component solutions, with Changan Automobile intending to invest strategically in the venture.

Luxeed S7 Pricing and Features

The Luxeed S7, co-developed with Chery, is competitively priced at RMB 249,800 ($35000), positioning itself as a strong contender against Tesla’s Model S and Porsche’s Taycan 4S. Huawei’s pricing strategy, with the Luxeed S7 priced lower than the earlier revealed pre-sale starting price of RMB 258,000, reflects a commitment to market competitiveness.

The vehicle boasts Huawei’s advanced technologies, featuring partially autonomous driving software, a proprietary operating system for infotainment, and Tuling: a high-tech chassis with adaptive air suspension and torque vectoring for enhanced handling and comfort.

Market Position and Monthly Deliveries

Huawei’s growing presence in the electric vehicle market is evident in its increasing monthly delivery targets. Record monthly deliveries of Aito-branded electric vehicles are expected to range between 16,000 and 18,000 in the current month, with projections to surpass 23,000 in December and further increase to over 30,000 in January. These ambitious targets underscore Huawei’s commitment to making a substantial impact in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle landscape.

Huawei’s Luxeed S7 launch, coupled with strategic collaborations and partnerships, marks a significant stride into the electric vehicle market. With cutting-edge technologies, competitive pricing, and a commitment to collaboration, Huawei is poised to leave a lasting impression on the automotive industry.

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After Huawei had its smartphone operations crippled due to the US sanctions, the company focused its efforts in various other fields, which included the automobile industry. However, it seems that the brand itself isn’t looking to build a car of its own.

Back in 2020, Ren Zhengfei, the CEO of the Chinese tech giant, stated the company does not plan on making its own cars. However, there were various rumors looming regarding Huawei possibly working on an electric/smart car of its own. Since then, the brand has even launched various systems that were featured on smart cars from other firms. Now, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer BG has also reiterated the same information regarding the company’s plans for the automobile market.

As per the senior official, the brand will not be making its own cars. However, they will continue on expanding its smart car ecosystem and other technological solutions for other brands. Basically, one can expect to see more products like the Huawei Smart LNDU 4K Dashcam that supports HarmonyOS. It has also made smart displays for electric vehicles and also has its technology for AITO models as well.

The executive also added that the company will be closely cooperating with other automobile makers will also lead the market in China and turn into some of the more profitable names in the Chinese car market. He went on to talk more about the brand’s investment into its smart car tech solutions, but this clears the fact that a Huawei branded car is not in the works anytime in the near future.

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Huawei launched the brand’s first-ever Electric Vehicle under its AITO sub-brand back in China in 2021. Called the AITO M5, the EV was seen as a bold business strategy for Huawei to expand its expertise into the automobile industry. 

With decent sales of shipment figures for the AITO M5 EV, it seems that it is in Huawei’s best interest to keep developing electric vehicles in the market. Apparently, Huawei thinks so as well, as a recent listing on China’s MIIT Database(via IT Home), shows that Huawei has already planned ahead for its next generation of electric vehicles as recently got certified to proceed with the operation.

The listing does not show off the name of the product, but if examined closely, one of the photos contains a blurry wording that seems to resemble “AITO M7” signifying that this listing is the next Huawei electric vehicle to be launched under the AITO sub-brand. 

From the listing, the Huawei AITO M7 EV is detailed to be a mid-large sized 6-seater hybrid electric SUV, slightly larger than its AITO M5 predecessor. Judging from the outside looks, the AITO M7 adopts a similar design as its older sibling, the AITO M5. It features the same enormous air ventilation grill at the frontal bumper, a sleek and straight roofline, aerodynamic translucent headlights, chrome coloured trims across the body, etc. 

The EV is also listed to come in five-spoke and ten-spoke wheel options, with optional upgrades such as chrome greyish translucent tinted windows, or ink-black translucent tinted windows. One minor design change of the AITO M7 though is that it seems to lack the “Huawei Zhixuan” logo on the EV present on the AITO M5. However, the pictures uploaded to the listing did not show off pictures of the automobile from all angles, but there may be a possibility that Huawei had just decided to relocate the logo elsewhere on the car.

In terms of dimensions, the Huawei AITO M7 weighs in at 2340kg, and has a length, width and height of 5020×1945×1775mm.

For the engine powering the AITO M7, the electric hybrid automobile will be utilising a 1.5T range extender + motor combo. The rated power/peak power of the electric drive motor is listed to be 72kW/200kW, the maximum net engine power is listed to be 90kW, and the fuel consumption given by China’s MIIT is 1.05L/100km.

Since the AITO M5 only started delivering in March of 2022, it is expected that the AITO M7 will be announced later in the year so as to not cannibalise sales of the AITO M5.

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As the world gradually transitions away from gas and petrol-powered cars to electric vehicles, there’s still one caveat that EVs are lacking in comparison with their petrol-powered counterpart which is the time to “refuel their tanks”. For conventional fuel-engine vehicles, you can just top up your car with petrol in less than 5 minutes and go; but for electric vehicles, the time it takes to recharge the battery is normally 20 to 40 minutes depending on the battery left needed for the journey. 

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant which sells not only smartphones, but also laptops, smartwatches, and even smart cars in China, is planning to shake up the industry with its revolutionary EV charging solution that promises to provide 200km of EV range within a single 5-min charge.

The news comes from Huawei Senior Executive, Wang Chao, who was a panellist at the National Chinese Electric Vehicle 100 Forum. In the forum, Wang boasted that since 2021, the company had rolled out its DriveOne smart driving solution across the country which included features such as smart IoT integration with HarmonyOS, navigation upgrades for drivers, and most importantly the solution provides the vehicle to recharge its battery to deliver 200km of driving distance within a 10-minute charge.

However, at Huawei, they always strive to deliver better products and services to their consumers. Wang mentions that in the next few years, the company is planning to reveal its cutting-edge 1000V EV charging solution that could deliver 200km of driving distance in just a 5-minute charge. 

Earlier in the decade, Huawei had set out its plan for its development roadmap in the EV industry, and it was expected that by 2025, the company would have released its 1000V 600kW high voltage charging solution to the public, which recharge your EV battery from 30% to 80% in 5 minutes, providing a “fuel tank refill” like experience. 

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On its 23 December Winter Flagship Launch Event, besides officially announcing its premium foldable, the Huawei P50 Pocket, Huawei also took the opportunity to launch its first-ever HarmonyOS powered electric hybrid car, the Huawei AITO M5.

According to a Chinese business media outlet, the 21st Century Business Herald, Huawei held a press media conference on January 9 at 2 pm CST at its Shenzhen Headquarters to discuss matters related to its growing smart electric car business. The conference was headed by Richard Yu, the executive director and double CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group and the intelligent automotive unit.

“At Huawei, we want our car manufacturing partners to become the industry’s most profitable car manufacturing company. We are saying this here and today to let the future know whether history has been accomplished by Huawei, a smartphone manufacturer.” Yu exclaimed.

Huawei collaborated with the famous car manufacturer, Seres, to launch its premium hybrid electric smart car series, AITO, with the first model being the AITO M5. The production and assembly of the car are handled by Seres, whereas Huawei’s role in the collaboration is in the car’s exterior design, interior comfort as well as in the marketing of the product. Richard Yu emphasized again that Huawei is not a car manufacturer, but the company wants to lend its expertise in marketing and trendsetting design to a rapidly growing car manufacturer like Seres.

The public is curious as to why Huawei wanted to venture into selling cars, and in the meeting with the press. Richard Yu said Huawei had 3 major reasons to launch into the car market.

First, after the US sanctions, Huawei’s 5G chipset stock was gradually dwindling, leading to lower revenue from its smartphone business. Richard Yu mentioned that by diversifying Huawei’s product catalog to include cars, its retail business could survive in China, as the profit margins per unit for cars are generally higher than its premium smartphones.

Second, the economic landscape has changed after the pandemic. Customers nowadays use online retailers as their all-in-one center for all their purchasing needs, and if an unknown car manufacturer just came into the scene without building its audience, it will be a challenging task to be accomplished. With Huawei’s retail and sales network across the country, car manufacturers can save on the expensive concept store rentals, human resources as well as product marketing for their cars because Huawei is an established brand in China, and can be the one in charge of these after-sales services.

Third, collaborating with car manufacturers also helps to accelerate the adoption of a fully Huawei smart IoT ecosystem, ensuring convenience for Huawei users in China. Richard Yu mentions the HarmonyOS powered AITO M5 as an example. With HarmonyOS, one can forget the worries of losing their car keys, and unlock their keys anytime with just a tap on their phone; one can connect and sync their phone’s navigation with the car’s navigation system; one can even activate seamless hands-free mode on the car with video calls and voice calls because both are synced to same Huawei account. Richard Yu emphasized again that this is the advantage of HarmonyOS.

“With the appeal of the Huawei AITO M5 smart cars and paired with its countywide sales network, Huawei will be able to sell 300,000 smart cars in 2022.” Richard Yu boldly claims.

“With at least 1000 stores across the country, if each store sells 30 units of smart cars monthly, we can sell at least 30 thousand cars in a month. In about 10 months, Huawei will be able to reach its annual target if the pace keeps up. The car manufacturer would also receive revenues of over 100 billion RMB (~ 15.72 billion USD), and Huawei would have achieved its promise of building the most profitable car manufacturer in the Chinese market.”

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At the Huawei Winter Flagship Launch Event last week(Dec 23 2021), Huawei did not only release the Huawei P50 Pocket, the premium flagship flip-phone rival the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, but the Chinese tech giant has also launched the brand’s second electric hybrid SUV vehicle in China, called the Huawei AITO M5 Smart Car.

The Huawei AITO M5 is AITO’s first luxury smart electric plug-in hybrid SUV, a bold move by them in its venture into the Chinese electric vehicle market. Inspired by the Porsche Macan, its design is very sleek and modern, with a spacious interior to boot. The SUV was jointly developed by Huawei and along with another Chinese brand Seres, which is under the Chongqing Sokon conglomerate company.

However, the unique and highlighting feature of the Huawei AITO M5 smart car, is that it comes with Huawei’s own in-house operating system, HarmonyOS. If you are not aware of HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS main function is to provide seamless integration for Huawei IoT products which includes its smartphones, laptops, smartwatches and starting as of recent, for its smart cars as well!

In a press announcement recently, Mr Yu Chengdong, Senior Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Smart Car Division, mentioned that Huawei has developed the industry’s first Bluetooth and NFC supported digital car keys for its newly announced AITO M5 smart car.

Mr Yu explains that on HarmonyOS 2.0 supported smartphones, the digital smart car keys are located within the Huawei Wallet app. With the digital keys, you can do pretty much everything a pair of physical car keys do, without having to worry about misplacing the keys or finding the keys during an emergency. To illustrate the technology, the digital car keys use Bluetooth to unlock and lock the car from a distance away, and if Bluetooth does not work or the phone battery runs out, the car keys also support NFC(even without phone battery) for unlocking the car so you’ll still have access to the car even when Bluetooth is not working.

The NFC and Bluetooth encryption of the digital keys are also present in the smart car, and it is compliant with the China ICCE standard as well as the road safety and privacy of the car drivers and passengers. As of today, the digital car keys are only available on HarmonyOS 2.0 Huawei smartphones, however, Huawei is planning to add this functionality to its Huawei Watch 3 series too as it would be more convenient for drivers to unlock their cars with a twist of a wrist compared to taking your smartphone out and clicking a button.

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Huawei is apparently planning on selling cars from 200 of its experience stores by the end of July 2021. It is also reportedly targetting a shipment goal of 300,000 units for the next year.

For those unaware, the Chinese tech giant has been expanding its presence in the automobile industry in recent times. While it doesn’t directy manufacture vehicles, it does offer both hardware and software based solutions for smart cars to other car makers. This has it build connectivity based solutions along with self driving technology as well. Now, the brand is planning on selling cars from its 200 experience stores and is also expecting to expand to more than 1,000 stores by the end of this year.

According to latest news media from China (Via iFeng), the company’s CEO of Smart Car Solutions BU, Richard Yu, has set a goal to sell 300,000 cars from its stores by the next year. The report arrives as Huawei has partnered with various car makers like BYD, BAIC, Mercedes-Benz, and Changan. At the moment, the company sells the SERES SF5 from its flagship stores in China. So, this move is in line with its plans to include cars in its stores.

The report also added that the SERES SF5 has already seen over 6,500 bookings within the first month. As Huawei is growing the smart car offerings in its stores, the company might soon branch out to include cars from other brands like Mercedes-Benz as well sometime in the future. But, that is just speculation so take it with a pinch of salt for now and stay tuned for more updates.

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The Huawei Global Analyst Conference was held earlier today (12th April 2021)  in Shenzhen, China. In the event, the company’s rotating chairman explained why the brand does not build cars.

During the event, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of the Chinese tech giant was asked why the company did not build cars. The question even pointed at the rival brand Xiaomi as an example. Zhijun responded that the company will continue to increase its investment into smart car softwares for the growth of  intelligence, automation, and the shift of the automobile industry to electric vehicles. But, he emphasized that Huawei’s position in the industry is relatively small, as it is just a component supplier in the field of smart connected vehicles.

The senior official further added that the decision for Huawei to not build a car was made after many years of discussions. Apparently, the company has internally assessed entering the automobile industry since 2012. Furthermore, car related research also began around that time, with ‘Internet of Vehicles’ laboratory being established by the brand in the same year. This was back when the company was studying the concept of electric vehicles, smart cars, and autonomous driving systems.

Since then, Xu Zhijun said that Huawei found that its technology was becomingly increasingly more common in automobiles, along with its value in the self driving market growing as well. Thus, the company decided against building cars, rather, they would shift the focus to provide ICT capabilities to help make better smart cars, which is reflected by its partnership with various automobile makers. Apart from just the software, the company also seeks to include Huawei branded electronic products that can be found inside the car.

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Earlier today, Huawei announced its financial report for last year, where it revealed its modest growth of 3.2 percent of net profits in 2020. The company even addressed the recent rumors regarding it working on building its own car, which it said again is not the case.

As per the Chinese tech giant, the company is working on smart connected vehicles, but is not building its own car. Rather, it will be helping other automobile manufacturers in building smart connected vehicles. Furthermore, the company also announced that it would also be working on developing next gen computing and communication based technologies. These products will be used in smart connected vehicles, with the company planning on launching more than 30 of smart components.

These components will be launched soon and will arrive one after another. The company also announced that it has plans on working with more than 20 hardware makers and 280 application vendors. Notably, it has also announced that it will launch its proprietary HarmonyOS (also known as HongMengOS in China) for smartphones soon. At the moment, HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) is also the world’s third largest mobile application ecosystem.

For those unaware, the company is aiming to leverage its communications and mobile services expertise. We had previously also reported on the company working on diversifying to the automobile industry through its HiCar initiative. So, this news is also in line with its plans to make communication based components and other smart features for automobile manufacturers.

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Earlier today (25th March 2021), a Weibo blogger, a Chinese microblogging website, shared an online post, which stated that Huawei is working on launching a product worth 300,000 Yuan (roughly 46,000 US Dollars) that could be its first electric car.

According to @看山的叔叔, the Chinese tech giant is working on a product with this eye watering price tag. Apparently, the new product will be a part of the consumer electronics maker’s Smart series of products and could even be an electric vehicle. If it is an automobile, it will likely be made by the company along with a partnered car making brand.

In the past, Huawei has stated that it is not planning on building a car, rather, it focuses on ICT technology and other internal components that will be featured in a vehicle. In other words, it is a supplier rather than a manufacturer, so we can expect the company to partner with an automobile vendor for its own car. Recently, the company had also announced that its HMS services will also be arriving in the Mercedes Benz S Class Sedans that are sold in China.

Unfortunately, the Weibo blogger didn’t share any finer details regarding the product that carried an exorbitant price tag. But, if the leak is true, then it would likely be a car, considering the price tag is more in line with electric vehicle offerings from other brands like Tesla. So stay tuned for more, as we will be providing updates when additional information regarding this matter is available.

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Huawei has struggled to cope with the stringent restrictions placed by the US government that has made it impossible for the Chinese company to get supplies from its US suppliers for critical components of its production process and 5G rollout. This has led the firm to sell off its Honor smartphone brand, and it continues to pursue investments in other areas like pig farming, mining, home electronics production, and much more.

Sources now say that the company may have plans to foray into the EV market by pursuing investment in that direction. The world’s largest tech equipment maker is believed to be in talks with China-based Changan Automobile and a few others on producing EVs in their plants, while also in talks with another company to manufacture the EVs on its behalf.
However, there is no official confirmation yet for this new investment model for the company. On the contrary, it has specifically stated that it had no plans to produce Huawei branded EVs, neither is it in talks with automakers in that regard.

With the rising demand for firm action in fighting the global challenge of climate change, the demand for electric vehicles and other green choices in mitigating the effects of Greenhouse gas emissions has been on an increase in recent years. A few countries across the world have set firm targets in phasing combustion-driven vehicles, some as early as within a decade. This policy has therefore encouraged EV makers to expand their capacity to meet the growing demand while new entrants are also coming into the space to have a piece of the pie. This may be Huawei’s vision, a pie of the EV pie.

While the US sanctions have had a very negative effect on the company, Huawei continues to develop in other areas and is slated to release a couple of high-end 5G smartphones this year, with its in-house operating system – HarmonyOS.

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Chinese tech titan, Huawei has been claimed to be working on electric cars similar to what the American automotive company, Tesla makes. However, in a recent interview with CNMO, Huawei’s rotating chairman, Xu Zhijun confirmed that the company will not be getting into the business of building automobiles. Instead, Huawei will channelise its resource to develop new technologies which will help existing car manufacturers to build smart cars.

It was also revealed that the company did plan to build an electric car until as recent as October 2018. But the company observed that the market is already laden with capable automotive makers across the globe that could build refined products with the technological solutions that Huawei currently offers or the ones that are currently under development.

In the month of May this year, Huawei had showcased a smart car solution which stands atop five main aspects which are as follows:

• An intelligent network that will help smart cars to connect to the cloud, which can help them locate nearby vehicles, pedestrians or any obstacles on the road.
• A refined driving experience.
• A sophisticated cockpit i.e the layout of an automobile’s interior.
• Credible provider of electrical solutions including components such as motors and EESD (Electrical Energy Storage Devices)/ Batteries.
• Provide a series of cloud services to help car companies to come up with new innovation and pay for travel services.

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All the elements laid out above will essentially allow any car manufacturer to develop and build highly advanced automobiles via Huawei’s off the shelf intellectual property and technologies.

The senior Huawei official also said that the company will utilise its 5G expertise to develop mm-wave and laser radar using optoelectronic technology to solve the cost and performance problems faced by existing solution providers. This technology will ultimately help in building true driverless vehicles, similar to what Tesla is currently aiming for.

It is clear that Huawei does not want to enter a market, which as previously mentioned, is already crowded and could only reward marginalised profits. Instead, it is carving a completely new industry which also falls in line with its existing role that is of a B2B supplier.

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Huawei is facing a lot of issues right now, especially in the western countries with the on-going US-China trade war and the concerns related to the security of Huawei’s telecom equipment. But, the company is still surging ahead.

The company’s consumer electronics business witnessed massive growth in the previous year and Huawei is now dominating the Chinese smartphone market. Going forward, the company is eyeing to take on the automobiles market.

According to a new report, Huawei is all set to unveil its first ever automobile, a car, at the Shanghai Auto Show. The report says that the company’s first car that will soon be showcased is developed in tandem with Dongfeng Motor, a state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan, China.

The automobile will feature in-vehicle communications, support for the fifth-generation wireless network and cloud functions. It will include information query functions, vehicle management, traffic scheduling, as well as equipment management.

Huawei and Dongfeng Motor had penned a 3 billion Yuan (approximately $446 million) deal with the local authorities in Xiangyang, earlier this month in order to develop a smart car, logistics, and transportation cloud platforms in efforts towards 5G-powered autonomous driving vehicles.

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During the signing ceremony for the Xiangyang government deal, a model of a mini-bus was showcased. However, there are no specific details available regarding the first-ever Huawei car, which could be unveiled later this month at the Shanghai Auto Show.

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