Recently, it was reported that Huawei proposed Mercedes-Benz and Audi to buy shares in its smart car software and components company, but Mercedes-Benz showed little interest in this. Mercedes wants to maintain autonomy over software to maintain its premium brand positioning. The extent of Audi's interest in Huawei's invitation is uncertain, but the two companies are planning to collaborate on autonomous driving technology.
In addition, Huawei and Audi have been cooperating in the field of intelligent and connected vehicles since 2018. Huawei has also extended invitations to Celis, Chery, JAC, and BAIC to open up their shareholdings, and signed a cooperation agreement with JAC to jointly build luxury intelligent connected electric vehicles.
With the expansion of Huawei's "circle of friends", its presence in the automotive industry is increasing. Other car companies are more willing to cooperate with Huawei, choosing to embrace Huawei's smart car technology, and the new company has great development potential, and its revenue scale will reach 100 billion yuan in the long run. Although Huawei has fulfilled its previous commitment that it will not build a vehicle, this does not mean that Huawei has given up the market in the automotive industry.
At a time when Huawei and Changan have established a new joint venture for automotive intelligent systems, and have attracted FAW, BAIC, JAC, Chery, and Celis to jointly invest in car companies, NIO's battery swap alliance, as well as Mercedes-Benz and BMW's supercharging alliances, are all completing cooperation in different forms. With the emergence of the "alliance" form of car companies, the automotive industry is ushering in the era of "group heating". New energy