HarmonyOS Eco holds hands with the first batch of car partners, and Huawei BU touches the turning point of profit and loss.

China Economic Net March 18 (Reporter Chen Mengyu) According to the news released by Huawei’s HarmonyOS official micro, GAC Chuanqi, Lantu Automobile, Zero Run Automobile and Kaiyi Automobile officially announced that they have joined HarmonyOS Eco and become the first automotive industry partners of HarmonyOS’s native applications.

Huawei said that this will not only accelerate the intelligentization of the automobile industry, bring more personalized and diversified travel choices to users, but also set a new benchmark for the automobile industry to start full-scene smart travel in HarmonyOS ecology.

According to the official news released by the above four automobile brands, they will launch the HarmonyOS native Application development of the app based on HarmonyOS NEXT HarmonyOS Xinghe Edition, and make in-depth cooperation in HarmonyOS’s ecology, technology complementarity and business win-win, so as to provide consumers with a full-scenario smart travel experience.

As far as HarmonyOS’s ecology is concerned, thousands of head manufacturers have started the development of native applications in HarmonyOS. On March 15th, Zhu Yonggang, president of Huawei Terminal Cloud, said that HarmonyOS’s world is open, opportunities are shared, and every partner is a co-practitioner of HarmonyOS’s ecology.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the above cooperation modes, Huawei also has special BU business for the automobile industry. At present, there are three modes of cooperation between Huawei and automobile enterprises, namely, parts supply mode, HI mode (that is, HuaweiInside, automobile enterprises adopt Huawei’s full-stack solution, including hardware and software) and HarmonyOS Zhixing mode (Huawei is deeply involved in product design, marketing and terminal sales).

Among them, intelligent car selection is undoubtedly the cooperation mode with the highest "Chinese content". With the development of intelligent car selection mode represented by the world, Huawei BU has ushered in a critical moment of turning losses into profits. On March 16th, Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, CEO of BG, and chairman of BU, a smart car solution, said at the committee of 100 Forum on Electric Vehicles in China (2024) that thanks to the hot sales of models developed in cooperation with car companies, Yuehua Zhizhi car selection business has turned losses into profits in the first three months of this year, and BU is close to breakeven. It is expected to turn losses into profits after April, forming a benign and positive development.

According to public information, since the establishment of Huawei BU in May 2019, the accumulated investment has reached 3 billion US dollars (about 20 billion yuan) and the R&D team has reached 7,000 people.

Up to now, Huawei’s "Four Boundaries" layout in HarmonyOS has been completed. From the perspective of sales volume, the first market in the field has performed best. In January and February this year, the cumulative sales volume of the field was 54,115 vehicles, ranking first among the new forces. Judging from a single model, the M7 has successfully stirred up the SUV market structure, and the cumulative order of the M9 has been close to 60,000 since its listing. In February, only the sales of two new energy SUVs, namely, Wenjie M7 and Tesla Model Y, exceeded 20,000.

The second brand Zhijie, at the end of November 2023, HarmonyOS Zhixing’s first pure electric car Zhijie S7 went on the market, but at the beginning of this year, Zhijie S7 was caught in a "delayed delivery" storm. Yu Chengdong said that the postponement of the listing of Zhijie S7 was affected by the relocation of the factory and the shortage of chip supply, and it is expected to fully recover in April.

The third brand enjoys the world, and the first model enjoys the world S9, which has been publicized in the 381st batch of Announcement of Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Products of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and is scheduled to be launched at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year.