It quoted Huawei managing director and chairman of its smart
car solutions, Richard Yu, who was speaking about the issues surrounding
Chery's Luxeed S7 sedan at an annual forum organised by the EV100 think tank.
Reuters reported in January that Chinese automaker Chery and
another Huawei partner, Changan Auto, had lodged complaints with Huawei over
how production issues with a computing unit the tech giant manufactured had
caused delays to deliveries of their flagship model.
The Luxeed S7 sedan - the first model for Chery's Luxeed EV
brand - had orders of about 20,000 as of Nov. 28. Luxeed said in January that
buyers could be reimbursed by up to 10,000 yuan if they were unable to pick up
the car as promised. The S7 is priced from 249,800 yuan ($34,716.62).
The brand was only launched in November and had been much
hyped by Huawei with Yu previously claiming the S7 would beat Tesla's luxury
Model S in performance and at a price lower than the Model 3.
Yu also told the EV100 forum that its autos business unit
would likely turn a profit from April after losing billions of yuan in the past
year, due to strong sales of mid to high-end models built by its partners.
Huawei launched its smart car unit in 2019 with the aim that
it could become the equivalent of German automotive supplier Bosch of the
intelligent electric vehicle (EV) era and supply software and components to
partners.
But it is the only money-losing unit among Huawei's main six
and brought in only one billion yuan revenue in the first half of 2023, a
fraction of the company's 310.9 billion yuan total.
Last year, Huawei announced that it would spin the unit off
into a new company which will receive the unit's core technologies and
resources and take investment from partners such as automaker Changan.
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