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Huawei will team up with Chery Automobile, BAIC Motor and Anhui
Jianghuai Automobile Group in jointly developing and
manufacturing Aito-branded vehicles, Richard Yu, Huawei's Smart
Car CEO, said at the China EV 100 forum in Beijing.
Huawei, which has already a partnership with Seres Group to make
Aito cars, plans a series of models including SUVs, sedans and
multipurpose vehicles under the Aito brand, Yu added.
"We'd like to fully use the automakers' resources of production
capacity," Yu said.
Seres sold a total of 80,000 Aito cars featuring Huawei's
HarmonyOS system - developed by the company as an alternative to
Android - in 2022, up more than six times from a year ago,
according to company filings.
Huawei's Chairman Eric Xu reiterated at a press conference on
Friday that the company doesn't make cars on its own but only
helps other automakers make better vehicles.
Huawei has been hit by a series of export controls by Washington
which says it is a security risk, which the company denies. The
sanctions have blocked Huawei from buying key components as well
as from using Google's Android operating system.
The sanctions have also affected Huawei's partnerships with
global automakers, who have given up using Huawei's vehicle
connectivity technologies in the past two years, Yu said on
Saturday.
Tension with the U.S. saw Meng detained for three years in
Canada over alleged efforts to cover up attempts by
Huawei-linked companies to sell equipment to Iran in breach of
U.S. sanctions.
(Reporting by Zhang Yan, Zhuzhu Cui and Brenda Goh; Editing by
David Holmes)
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