Global ICT firm Huawei Technologies has announced the launch of the first vehicle integrated with its intelligent automotive solution at the 2021 ARCFOX Brand Night and New Product Launch in Shanghai.
The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI is the first mass-produced vehicle featuring autonomous driving for urban roads and is being billed as a new global benchmark for autonomous driving.
This model offers OEMs a brand-new digital architecture for intelligent vehicles, more than 30 intelligent components, and five intelligent systems – Intelligent Driving, Intelligent Cockpit, mPower, Intelligent Connectivity, and Intelligent Vehicle Cloud.
The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI is the first premium intelligent electric vehicle co-branded with Huawei Inside (HI). Through partnerships such as the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI, Huawei has promised to use its 30-plus years of experience in ICT to help OEMs build better intelligent cars and drive China’s automotive industry to evolve in new cutting-edge areas such as intelligent and autonomous driving.
The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI will be the world’s first commercial vehicle with autonomous driving for urban roads thanks to Huawei’s full-stack automated driving system (ADS).
The car will be able to navigate itself through busy urban terrain, high-speed roads, and parking lots.
It will be able to recognise and analyse a full array of road features from traffic lights to oncoming traffic. From there, the vehicle can operate without instruction to any situation from going straight, turning, and stopping for pedestrians or other objects, to navigating on- and off-ramps and unprotected turns.
According to Huawei, the full-stack ADS was specifically adapted to China’s complex roads and transportation systems to provide users with a better driving experience across all scenarios.
The ADS will also support continuous optimization and iteration through over-the-air (OTA) updates to provide users with new and exciting features and to keep up with quickly evolving urban use cases.
During the upcoming Auto Shanghai 2021, the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI will be available for attendees to experience autonomous driving in dense urban areas.
The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI is equipped with HarmonyOS and a large HD display for premium interconnection between what Huawei calls “1 + 8 + N” scenarios. By bringing together smart cockpit units with users’ other devices, these technologies allow services like navigation, video, music, and voice to be seamlessly switched between the car and other devices, making driving easier and more enjoyable. These latest technological advances turn your car into your phone, enabling seamlessly connected video calls and more while driving.
The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI also comes equipped with new power technologies that are going to change the game for new energy vehicles, according to Huawei.
The HI intelligent automobile solution is comprised of powerful computing resources and operating systems to form three computing platforms — intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and intelligent vehicle control — and three operating systems — AOS (intelligent driving), HOS-A (intelligent cockpit), and VOS (intelligent vehicle control).
Together, these elements create a software-defined vehicle, which means that new functions can be continuously developed. This ability to constantly iterate for better user experiences redefine how we view cars.
Both of the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI models, priced at CNY 388,900 and CNY 429,900 respectively, are expected to hit the market at the end of 2021.
The commercial debut of the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI is just the start for Huawei as its presence expands into the automobile industry.
Huawei has also announced that it will be helping GAC Group and Chang’an Automobile build high-end intelligent vehicle sub-brands. These vehicles are slotted to hit the market in Q4.
