Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On Jan. 5, Richard Yu, Huawei's executive director and head of its Terminal BG, said he led a team to GAC Group, meeting Chairman Feng Xingya and his team to discuss co-building the HarmonyOS ecosystem, and toured GAC's showroom.
Yu said Huawei and GAC already collaborate on vehicle electrification, digitalization, connectivity and intelligence. Models including the GAC Hyptec A800, GAC Trumpchi Xiangwang M8 and Xiangwang S9 are equipped with Huawei's Qiankun Intelligent Driving and the HarmonyOS smart cockpit.
Image source: Feng Xingya's social media account
Feng, for his part, said they carried out a static walkthrough of vehicles fitted with Huawei's Qiankun Intelligent Driving and HarmonyOS smart cockpit, while the two teams held in-depth talks on co-building the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
Yu added that Huawei will keep strengthening its capabilities in systems, smart cockpits and intelligence, and will open them to the industry. He stressed that Huawei aims to work with automakers at different stages and following different technology routes, jointly pushing the auto sector toward intelligence and connectivity.
According to Huawei, with support from ecosystem partners, the HarmonyOS experience is accelerating from "available" to "easy to use." By 2025, more than 36 million devices will run HarmonyOS 5.0 and above. Qiankun Intelligent Driving has brought a smart brain to over 1.4 million passenger cars, with assisted-driving mileage nearing 7 billion km.
Image source: Feng Xingya's social media account
Last April, Huawei announced that the HarmonyOS cockpit officially launched the HarmonyOS NEXT-based in-car operating system Application Pioneer Program, with the first batch of partners including iQIYI, Amap, Mango TV, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, etc.
Last August, Feng wrote that Huawang—a key move to deepen GAC's cooperation with Huawei—will leverage "GAC manufacturing + Huawei intelligence" to target the high-end smart NEV market, and is an important piece of the group's Panyu Action reform. Separately, the first shooting-brake coupe under the Qijing brand jointly developed by GAC and Huawei is slated to go on sale and start deliveries in June this year.
