On New Year's Eve, as the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival approached, Wanjie M9 made its debut as a collaborative vehicle on the 2024 Spring Festival Gala, sending warmest wishes to the people who are striving for a better life. Looking back at the past years' Spring Festival Galas, the number of automobile brands that appeared is few, but this year, CCTV Spring Festival Gala directly praised Wanjie M9 as a milestone representative of China's new energy intelligent vehicles, making it stand out among a multitude of new energy vehicles and becoming the "mainstay" of the Spring Festival Gala.
Being able to firmly occupy the center stage on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is of extraordinary significance for Wanjie M9, representing the recognition of its technological strength and innovative achievements by the public. Delving into the background, Wanjie M9's highly intelligent level, supported by Huawei technology, is the key to its success.
As a flagship model under the Hongmeng Intelligent Driving, the AskWJ M9 takes on the heavyweight title of "Tech Flagship" and boasts several industry-leading or pioneering features. Among them, cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent driving, smart cockpit, and connected intelligence, led by Huawei's ADS 2.0 advanced intelligent driving system, are spearheading the smart revolution in the Chinese automotive industry.
Pioneering the era, setting the benchmark for intelligent driving
In the 21st-century era of technology, intelligent driving has emerged as the vanguard of transformation. Particularly in China, this trend is becoming increasingly prominent, with the AskWJ M9 at the forefront. Its integration of the Huawei ADS 2.0 advanced intelligent driving system, featuring the Huawei-developed intelligent driving interaction game algorithm, has paved the way for numerous industry breakthroughs.
Leading-edge functionality. A major key advantage of HUAWEI ADS 2.0 lies in its efficient combination of BEV perception network 2.0 and the industry-first GOD network 2.0, in simple terms, providing vehicles with a "God's-eye view." This enables real-world perception, ensuring navigation maps align with actual roads. In early February, the AskWJ model initiated a major OTA upgrade, becoming the first to achieve advanced intelligent driving in high-speed and urban areas without relying on high-definition maps, delivering a nationwide, progressively smoother driving experience. For drivers, simply setting the navigation route in advance requires minimal intervention throughout the journey, ensuring a smooth and safe arrival at their destination.
With the support of HUAWEI ADS 2.0, the AEB capability of the WENJIE M9 has been further enhanced. When facing stationary vehicles or pedestrians, the actual braking speed tested reaches up to 120km/h. Even in scenarios with backlight, glare, obstructed vision, sudden appearance of pedestrians, or irregular obstacles like scattered rocks on mountain roads, the WENJIE M9 can identify and brake promptly, thus enhancing safety at all times.
The Wanjie M9 single-handedly elevated the entire industry's level of intelligent driving technology. As the culmination of Huawei's intelligent automotive technology, the Wanjie M9 not only showcases the pinnacle of intelligent driving technology but also foreshadows the comprehensive transformation that the entire automotive industry is about to undergo with its extreme "smart" experience brought by intelligent connectivity and smart cabin features.
Intelligent connectivity + Smart cabin, reshaping the standard of smart vehicles
The Wanjie M9 marks the beginning, not the end, of intelligent user experience. Whether it's intelligent connectivity or a smart cabin, the Wanjie M9 breaks boundaries to provide users with a smooth and convenient interaction experience. Among these features, screens play a "core" role in the smart cabin.
Equipped with Smart Cabin 4.0, the Wanjie M9 can accommodate up to 10 screens in full configuration, evolving from a single-person single-device experience to a multi-person multi-device collaborative experience. With support for multi-screen sharing, thanks to ultra-low latency, users can easily drag and synchronize multiple screens within the cabin for simultaneous viewing, greatly enhancing the driving and riding pleasure inside the cabin.
With screens for everyone, the Wanjie M9's six-seat equality concept is evident—front, middle, and rear rows are uniformly equipped, each row with independent charging ports, cup holders, phone slots, and HUAWEI MagLink ports. Even the third-row seats are equipped with heating functionality, demonstrating the Wanjie M9's interpretation of humanization and egalitarianism.
The most stunning "screen" among the full-spec 10 screens must be the HUAWEI ARHUD, making its debut appearance. It addresses issues like low brightness, low contrast, and image distortion commonly found in traditional HUDs. With the largest display size in the industry, it can deliver an equivalent display effect of 70 inches at a distance of 7.5 meters and 96 inches at 10 meters, providing drivers with a more refined and clear display.
Moreover, the HUAWEI ARHUD is the first to support the deep integration of real scenes and intelligent driving. In human driving scenarios, it offers warning prompts that adhere to road markings, helping drivers perceive blind spot dangers faster and earlier in complex road conditions, thus enabling proactive warning and truly achieving controllable danger. Even in extreme environments with poor visibility, such as low light or rain and fog, it precisely displays nearby vehicles and pedestrians with night vision/rain and fog enhancement prompts, ensuring users' driving safety in challenging conditions.
Apart from visualizing intelligent driving, the HUAWEI ARHUD can project a huge screen image far away while in parking mode, delivering a cinema-level immersive experience. Netizens jokingly comment: "If one day you see a car owner staring motionless at the windshield, don't be surprised, they might be watching a movie with the head-up display."
From human-computer interaction to augmented reality navigation, and even "entertainment" for the windshield, the Wanjie M9 leaves no stone unturned, with Huawei's "powdered gear" spirit fully embodied in it.
In media blind tests, Huawei candidly compared its outstanding HUAWEI SOUND series with the benchmark product - the Berlin sound system in the Mercedes-Benz GLS. Although the blind test results were not publicly disclosed, based on user feedback, the experience with HUAWEI SOUND is on par with the sound system configuration in million-dollar luxury cars. The Wanjie M9 adopts the new HUAWEI SOUND outstanding series sound system, equipped with industry-leading 25-unit professional speakers, including 7 surround sound channels, 1 subwoofer channel, and 4 sky sound channels, elevating the listening experience to another level.
Transforming 2D sound into 3D sound, the "secret" of the HUAWEI SOUND Excellent Series lies in the acoustic technology commonly found in opera houses—Schroeder diffusion. This architectural acoustics technique, widely used in opera houses, enables precise reflection and diffraction of sound waves, resulting in even diffusion of sound within the cabin. When applied in cars, it can simulate the live effect of an opera house, achieving consistency in audio throughout the vehicle, allowing sound to envelop users from all directions, and enabling every seat to experience an auditory feast akin to being in an opera house. It's clear that Huawei's approach to in-car audio aims to surpass brands like "Bowers & Wilkins" and "Bang & Olufsen" right from the start.
For current models, the WENJIE M9 benefits from Huawei's "black technology," with leading advantages in driving control, space, comfort, and other aspects. Particularly, its intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and intelligent connectivity, among other smart technologies, outperform similar new energy vehicles by a significant margin, truly taking the lead. The appearance of the WENJIE M9 undoubtedly brings a new revolution to the automotive industry.
With Huawei's intelligent automotive full-stack technology, which includes automotive chips and operating systems, the WENJIE M9 is influencing industry trends and consumer preferences with several industry-leading or pioneering features. As one of the representative models of new energy vehicles, the WENJIE M9 shines brightly during the Spring Festival Gala, showcasing not only the nation's confidence in Huawei's core technological prowess but also representing the innovation and rise of Chinese new energy intelligent vehicles, and highlighting the determined resolve of Chinese brands to shine on the world stage. Looking ahead, we have every reason to believe that Chinese new energy vehicles, led by models like the WENJIE M9, will continue to lead the global automotive industry transformation and development through intelligent and innovative technologies.
