Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars

Wired contacted Huawei to ask about its possible role in subsidy. Huawei did not comment on time to publish.

Shenzhen Longang District Trade Bureau – When Huawei’s headquarters is located – the first subsidy was published online – when Huawei’s headquarters located –Post Local car buyers can get up to 4,000 RMB (about $ 560) to buy a car driven in Huawei’s driver-assistant system. Subsis will be provided on the first, first served basis until 14,000,000 RMB total budget is finished, which means more than 3,500 residents can benefit from it.

Starting in May, many announcements in similar languages later posted trade Beurus in other provinces and municipalities. In China, this trade is in charge of distributing government subsidy as a consumer regulatory of Beurus and Last year was launched in huge programs To encourage trade in old electronics and cars to help the economy stimulate. Huawei subsidies are being announced through trade ber’s that makes them almost different from the official welfare program.

In some cases, like Henan and Anhui provinces, the subsidies were published by the Provincial Auto Industry Association instead. Although they are technically private trade groups, the announcements were printed on official faceheads and in red stamps, giving them feelings of authority.

After the American trade restrictions were destroyed by Huawei’s Global Smartphone Business and mainly forced it out of the market outside China, the Tech Giants are trying to re -invent yourself. In addition to creating a harmony operating system for smartphones, smart equipment and cars, it is increasingly working on large language models and autonomous driving technology in AI boom.

The company has renowned to make a car itself a car itself – its smartphone peer and contestant Shaomi – but it has been part of several Chinese auto companies. Huawei’s autonomous driving technology, especially Chinese manufacturers, has the power to develop self-driving on their own. It is “technically brand-godnostic, which is interesting for brands that are struggling to maintain progress in intelligent driving spaces,” you said. “Effectively, if you are desperate and you cannot hold on to your China market with Huawei in the market.”

Subsidies have encouraged controversy in China, as they think certain brands have become a ruthless competitive EV landscape. Domestic markets, such as saturated, have been forced to reduce the price of Chinese EV brands and carry free technology upgrades or interest -free financing options.

Early this year, Beijing Signal The car manufacturers should be avoided using the extreme price determination techniques. “The central government wants to see the ultimately stable, profitable companies and is not a super fragmented industry where no one is making any money,” Yaria Mazocco says, the senior fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has studied China’s industrial policy for EVS. “For customers, it’s great now, but it’s not durable in the long run.”

The pressure of the central government to avoid prices wars may be the companies that bring their cars to a more creative way to make their cars more affordable. At the same time, Majocco says local governments can see Huawei’s self-driving technology favorably because it adapts to another policy for high-tech production and self-sufficient AI technology in China.

Before this year, Wired 2022 could only identify other similar Huawei cars to detect car subsidies, Huawei’s town Shenzhen, Shenzhen was giving out $ 1,400 per car People who bought the vehicles with Harmonyo. The Huawei company did not answer the wired question about whether the company was paying for them.