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Today, several road test spy photos of new AITO medium and large SUV models have been exposed. If true, the new SUV is the second model of the AITO brand and the third model jointly launched by Huawei and Celis. According to the news, the model will be named "M7", AITO has announced that its new model will be launched this year, road test photos appear in a number of scenes, which means that the model is quite mature. AITO's first model, the M5, launched in December last year, will begin delivery at the end of this month.

At present we can only get a preliminary impression of the new model from some exterior photos, size is the biggest change. As is customary with model series design, the AITO M5 and M7 need to develop some similar design language in the exterior and interior. Under camouflage, from the appearance of the wheel hub shape, the new car and the boundary M5 are still very similar, you can also see the inverted trapezoidal grille shape and through-tail lamp design.

It is not too far from the launch time of the M5, so the interior plan may naturally be quite close. In terms of power, it is speculated that the new car or the same as the M5 will provide two options: extended range hybrid and pure electric. From the past propaganda, Selis Huawei Smart Selection SF5 target is ideal ONE, after upgrading the boundary M5 target is ideal ONE, and M7 as a medium-sized extended SUV model, meet this label or target ideal ONE, specific technical details and product positioning need to wait for official further official information.

Ten days ago, Yu Chengdong, Huawei's managing director, CEO of consumer business and BU CEO of smart car solutions, praised AITO's endurance and long-distance driving comfort on Weibo. As a Huawei executive, he drove 1400 kilometers back to Shenzhen from his hometown in Anhui Province on the second day of the year. He thought that the comfort configuration, seat massage, driving assistance and other functions of the M5M5 greatly relieved the long-distance fatigue. In micro bo, he also stressed that the model is very fuel-efficient,"only in the highway service station added a little oil, went the whole way." This "a little oil" vague statement, attracted enthusiastic netizens to help calculate, a netizen said, according to the boundary asked M5 square official parameters, electric pure endurance 150 kilometers, fuel tank added to full 56 oil liters. Chengyu Donglao started from home and ran 150 kilometers to finish the electric run. The remaining distance was 1250 kilometers. The fuel tank had 56 liters of oil left. According to the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers provided by Huawei Celis owner, 7 liters of 56 liters of oil could run 800 kilometers. There were still 450 kilometers left. At this time, according to the fuel consumption of 7 liters per 100 kilometers, 31.5 liters of gasoline were needed for 450 kilometers.

Yu Chengdong or did not expect micro bo words aroused everyone's attention, suspected also in their own circle of friends also sent the same paragraph of words, but the content of the micro bo "a little oil" changed to "1~2 times to supplement part of the oil", obviously, this statement and most of the owners of the daily use performance similar. In this passage, he also compared it with a pure electric car, saying that a pure electric car had to be charged at least six times for an hour each time.

According to the official departure plan, the M5 will start to depart at the end of this month for six consecutive times. By March, most of the subscribers can get the car, while April is the time when the production capacity is greatly improved. Today, many media have gone to Huawei to make some preliminary reports. This is the beginning of the data performance of the AITO M5. A month ago, Cyrus held a "pledge meeting" and said that it would ensure that 10,000 AITO M5s would be produced in the first quarter of this year. From this figure calculation to see, and Yu Chengdong set 300,000 target still has some gap, then speed up the new model is an inevitable choice.

Earlier, Yu Chengdong had told the media,"We plan to use a store to sell cars by the end of this year. Assuming that each store can sell 30 units per month, the monthly sales volume will reach 30,000 units. Huawei will challenge the sales target of 300,000 units this year, so that the annual sales volume of cooperative automobile enterprises will reach 100 billion yuan." Huawei has always stressed that Huawei does not build cars, but only helps car enterprises build good cars, and Yu Chengdong's statement takes the figures sold from Huawei channels as statistical caliber, and also needs to include the sales volume using Huawei technology. However, even so, the production capacity of Celis in the first quarter was 10,000 vehicles, and both sales volume and production capacity doubled to 100,000 at most, which is the estimated annual production capacity of Celis factory at present.

Obviously, Huawei's goal in sales volume also includes more external forces. At present, Huawei's finalized brands include BAIC, GAC and Chang 'an in addition to Dongfeng Xiaokang. However, the progress of these brands in the past year has not been as rapid as Dongfeng Xiaokang, or is still in the wait-and-see stage. Take Beiqi as an example, the sales target of 12,000 vehicles set at the beginning of last year was only 6006, and this year's target was greatly increased to 40,000. It is hard to say whether it can be realized, but even if this figure can be completed and then fully included in Huawei's sales caliber, the annual target of 300,000 still faces a big challenge. Yu Chengdong left a hand in the face of the interview, he said,"We want to make the car companies that cooperate with us deeply into the most profitable car companies." I'm going to get this out first and let everyone see if we can deliver."

In recent days, there has been a video of Yu Chengdong's speech at the internal meeting last year. In the speech, Yu Chengdong believes that the huge technical investment, sales channels and experience of products in new energy vehicles are the basis for helping automobile enterprises build and sell cars. There are two models listed in that year, and there is no problem in achieving 300,000 vehicles surpassing all electric vehicle opponents. As the second model of AITO, the M7 is naturally the backbone of the 300,000-vehicle plan. From the perspective of market sales, the bigger challenge is Tesla. Yu Chengdong said: "I hope we will surpass it in the first year and far surpass them in the second year. I hope our car sales will quickly exceed 2 million units that year." Even for Mercedes-Benz BMW 300,000 - 500,000 range of high-end market, Yu Chengdong also thinks, Or a hand can kill it. From this video, I understand that when AITO was released in December last year, Yu Chengdong repeatedly mentioned the pains of "asking the world M5 comparable to millions of luxury cars".

In fact, at the current stage, even if Huawei has only sold 100,000 vehicles this year, it is actually an excellent performance in the sales list of new energy vehicles, and the M5 has already started delivery, and the answer may not be far away.

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