Huawei to Hell: Embattled Chinese comms giant said to be revving up for a move into the electric vehicle market

With its carrier and mobile businesses in turmoil, and no sign of a reprieve from crushing US sanctions, China's Huawei is reportedly lurching into the growing electric vehicle market. According to Reuters, Huawei is in talks with a number of Middle Kingdom automakers, including BluePark New Energy and the state-owned Changan …

[Anonymous Coward]

ECU?

"Huawei could struggle to obtain these crucial semiconductor components, particularly given two of the five largest automotive semiconductor firms (Texas Instruments and NXP) are based in the US."

Yeh, how will they manage all the fuel and air mixtures and control the timings in their new ELECTRIC car......

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: ECU?

There is way more to automotive semiconductors than combustion engine ECUs.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: ECU?

Yeh, exactly, how are they gonna measure that air mass without that mass air flow sensor! Or send those turn signals to the CAN bus so the 360 reversing camera sub rig can show the correct curves for reversing! Can they even access a CAN bus without US chips? Oh no!, how-ever will they do engine diagnostics over the CAN bus and diagnose those timing issues!?

Me thinks they won't be "revving up" anytime soon, whatever "revving up" means in an electric car world!

(snip)

Somethings are "painfully obvious" to everyone except to the people who need to feel the pain. China churns out electric buses and cars already without US tech, Huawei aren't looking at US, they're looking at SAIC and BAIC, and BYD and thinking they'd like a piece of that action.

[Anonymous Coward]

Electric vehicle does not equate to self driving vehicle.

The latter won't be a reality on public roads for decades.

[Sanctimonious Prick]

@AC

And so many people said "Elon cannot..." And then he did.

[Anonymous Coward]

Segways haven't been allowed on pavements in the UK for safety reasons for a decade. Due to public concerns.

And as far as I'm aware, autonomous driving is illegal in most places on planet earth. Inventing a self driving vehicle does not equate to it being legal to use in that mode. In the UK, drivers have to be in control of their vehicles at all times. Again, due to public concerns over safety.

Self driving won't be a reality until drivers can (legally) sleep for the whole journey whilst the car takes control. "Taking their hands off the steering wheel without any intervention for up to three minutes" doesn't count as self-driving.

[Crafty volt 7]

Decades? It's here already. My Tesla drives me to work every day while I catchup on my 40 winks on the back seat.

[six_tymes]

apparently you do not understand. "Embattled" ? really? they are about to make cars... hello.

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed. That didn't happen overnight.

https://www.huaweicentral.com/first-electric-car-of-huawei-and-baic-bluepark-will-launch-in-april-2021/

[Pascal Monett]

Why should EVs necessarily be autonomous ?

Can't we just get electrical vehicles first ? Do we absolutely have to have to have them autonomous before we get them ?

Let's go step by step, shall we ? Give us reliable, comfortable electric vehicles that do not pollute and have batteries that are long-lasting and durable. I think that's a pretty good bar to start with already.

Once we have that nailed down, it will be time enough to get to the autonomous part.

[Cuddles]

What is a tech company?

"electric vehicles represent a tantalising opportunity for any tech firm looking to diversify"

Do they? Surely it depends entirely on what exactly you think a "tech" firm actually is. As far as I can tell, it's a completely meaningless term used to describe any company that has at least one computer somewhere in an office. Online shopping, logistics, real estate rental, cloud computing, software, hardware, taxi services, telecoms, game development, car manufacturing, communications... every single one and many more all get lumped together as "tech" as if they actually have anything in common. Electric cars may well be an interesting direction for some companies to diversify, but that's only going to be the ones that already have related interests or some obvious way to gain from doing so, and certainly the word "any" has no business being involved considering the huge variety of completely unrelated industries that get lumped under the term.