Chinese electric vehicle brand Aito on Tuesday launched a luxury full-size sports utility vehicle that it claims features unmatched safety and luxury with Huawei’s cutting-edge technologies including a gigantic heads-up display and automated driving capabilities for urban scenarios. Huawei and its manufacturing partner Seres made the body sections of the Aito M9 with the use of large, high-pressure casting machines that weigh up to 9,000 tonnes, a technique also used by Tesla for producing its Cybertruck. This will greatly boost the vehicle’s structural stiffness with the reduction of components from several hundred to only about 10 or so, Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei’s consumer business group, said during a press conference in Shenzhen. The three-row SUV is equipped with a 75-inch, augmented-reaility, head-up display unit that can present major traffic information such as navigation in a high-resolution, transparent display, as well as a 32-inch, foldable projection screen curtain for entertainment in the middle of the car. Scheduled for delivery on Jan. 26, the six-seater will be capable of navigating by itself on busy streets across major Chinese cities, and is priced from RMB 469,800 and RMB 509,800 ($65,725 and $71,321) for the range-extended hybrid and all-electric versions, respectively. [Aito release, TechNode reporting, in Chinese]
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