Huawei Digital Energy President Hou Jinlong: How do Huawei Smart Engine and Huawei Supercharging rewrite the industrial landscape?

On April 23, 2026, the Beijing International Auto Show has not officially arrived, and a conference has taken the lead in igniting the focus of the industry. At the conference, Huawei Director and President of Huawei Digital Energy Hou Jinlong officially unveiled Huawei DriveONE's new Chinese brand "Huawei Smart Engine", and at the same time released Huawei's supercharging strategy and series of new products covering all scenarios of passenger cars and commercial vehicles. In the exchanges with the Automobile House after the conference, Hou Jinlong proposed a set of systematic solutions for China's new energy automobile industry with the two core keywords of "sports area intelligentization and heavy truck supercharging". After more than ten years of development, China's new energy automobile industry has passed the policy-driven market enlightenment period and the scale expansion period of technological breakthroughs, and now it has officially entered the third wave with "quality upgrading, full scene coverage, and global competition" as the core. When the penetration rate of electrification of passenger vehicles exceeds 50%, but the electrification of commercial vehicles is still trapped in a closed scene, Huawei's heavy layout this time opens up a new space for growth for the entire industry. Movement area intelligence: complementing the last piece of the puzzle of the electrified deepwater area In the more than ten years of the development of the new energy automobile industry, the definition of electrification has long been narrowed down to a simple replacement of the three-electric system. For example, in the industry, electric motors replace fuel engines, batteries replace fuel tanks, and electric controls replace traditional engine management systems. The focus of competition has also been around quantifiable indicators such as battery capacity, motor power, and driving range for a long time. With the entry of advanced intelligent driving technology into the tipping point of L3 scale popularization, there is a core contradiction that can no longer be ignored. In Hou Jinlong's view, the development of the new energy automobile industry so far, the industry's understanding of "electrification" has always had obvious limitations: "In the past, we talked about electrification, the core is the electrification of the motor, that is, turning the fuel engine into a motor, electric drive, and only completed the electrification of the drive. However, I believe that it is far from enough to truly move towards full-scale electrification, especially to support the rapid response of high-end intelligent driving. The entire sports domain, including braking, steering, and suspension, must be fully electrified. This has not yet been achieved by the industry." This is the core logic of the birth of the new brand of "Huawei Intelligent Engine". In Hou Jinlong's definition, the core breakthrough of Huawei Intelligent Engine is the leap from "super components" to "super systems", which is also the core difference between Huawei and other parts manufacturers in the industry. "At present, there are many people who are also doing electric drives and" three-electric "systems, but they are basically doing parts, and they have not really made a complete plan to think about the chassis movement area, which is the biggest difference.” Hou Jinlong said bluntly, “Our ‘sports domain’ strategy is a complete system, not isolated components. In the past, these modules of the motor, brake, and steering were separated from each other, operated independently, and controlled independently. What we have to do is to integrate the drive, brake, steering, and suspension into a whole, and achieve deep synergy under unified model control. Only in this way can we truly improve the efficiency, safety, and driving experience of the entire vehicle. "At the component level, Huawei Intelligent Engine's new dual 94% silicon carbide power platform has achieved a double breakthrough of 94% efficiency in extended range power generation and pure electric working conditions, which has refreshed the industry energy efficiency record. The model built based on this scheme can achieve the endurance performance of" one kilometer and twelve kilometers ". The response time of the wire-controlled electric braking system has been shortened to 78ms, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of the traditional hydraulic braking system. The more core upgrade lies in the integration and restructuring at the system level. Huawei Intelligent Engine integrates the four systems of drive, brake, steering, and suspension into a unified algorithm framework by constructing a three-dimensional space fusion control model in the motion domain XYZ, realizing deep collaborative control, which shortens the single-wheel control cycle by 50% and improves the control accuracy by 50%. In fact, Huawei's technology accumulation in the smart electric field has long been verified by the large-scale market. Hou Jinlong revealed that as of April 2026, Huawei had shipped more than 2.4 million sets of smart engines and exceeded 40 billion kilometers in total mileage. In terms of quality and safety performance, it has always ranked at the forefront of the industry. "We hope that the Huawei Smart Engine brand can make the final customer feel at ease and reassured, and truly make the Huawei Smart Engine a synonym for ‘high quality‘ and ’security’. Hou Jinlong said. If Huawei's smart engine solves the core pain points of electric mobility" on the car ", then the comprehensive upgrade of Huawei's supercharging strategy is from the" under the car "refueling link, which opens the ceiling for the full scenario expansion of the new energy vehicle industry. In an exclusive interview, Hou Jinlong clearly stated that the new energy vehicle industry has entered the third wave, and the electrification of commercial vehicles, especially heavy trucks, will be the most core growth point in this wave, and also the most critical part of the electrification of the transportation field. In the field of passenger vehicles, Huawei's full-liquid cooling supercharging technology launched in 2023 has made the" one second and one kilometer "refueling experience an industry consensus, leading the rapid development of the supercharging industry. Starting in 2025, Huawei will extend the supercharging technology from the passenger car scene to the commercial vehicle field. With the megawatt supercharging technology as the core, it has created a supercharging solution covering the entire scenario of heavy trucks, solving the core dilemma that has restricted the development of commercial vehicle electrification for a long time. By 2026, Huawei and its partners have completed the coverage of the supercharging network in more than 400 cities across the country. “Heavy trucks account for only 3% of vehicle ownership, but contribute 54% of highway transport carbon emissions, and their electrification is critical to the low-carbon transformation of the entire transport sector. However, at present, the large-scale development of the electrification of heavy trucks has always been severely restricted, and the core bottleneck is energy supplementation." Hou Jinlong bluntly said that in the past, most of the heavy trucks used slow charging piles or small power charging piles. It took an hour or more to make up 300 to 400 kilometers, and it was completely unable to meet the timeliness needs of trunk line logistics. At the same time, the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain were disconnected. Battery manufacturers mostly only provided low-magnification batteries of 1C and up to 2C. Vehicle manufacturers did not have adapted supercharged models, and operators were reluctant to build special supercharging stations for heavy trucks. Ultimately, a dead cycle of "less piles are not built, fewer piles are not built" was formed, resulting in electric heavy trucks being limited to closed scenarios such as ports and mines, and it was impossible to expand to open scenarios such as trunk line logistics. In response to this industry pain point, Huawei officially launched a megawatt supercharging series of solutions at this conference. Together with car companies, battery manufacturers, operators, and logistics companies, it broke through the entire industrial chain of heavy truck electrification to achieve full scene coverage of 1C to 3.5C+ models. Hou Jinlong said, "Since last year, we have joined forces with car companies, battery manufacturers, etc., to promote the maturity of the supercharging industry chain and solve the problem of battery magnification. Vehicle manufacturers have also created megawatt supercharged models with us. This year, there will be more than 100 relevant models on the market. We have also completed the full-scenario landing of megawatt-level charging piles, and the operating efficiency of operators is also very considerable." Hou Jinlong calculated an account for the car home. A 50-ton heavy truck costs about 2.7 yuan to 2.8 yuan per kilometer of fuel power. With Huawei's megawatt supercharging program, the cost per kilometer can be reduced to 1.2-1.5 yuan, which not only greatly reduces the operating costs of the logistics company, but also brings stable and considerable benefits to the charging operators. In response to the impact of high-power charging on the power grid, which is a common concern in the industry, Hou Jinlong also gave Huawei a systematic solution. "The charging power of a heavy truck is equivalent to dozens of passenger cars. One charge is about 400 to 500 kWh, the maximum current is 2400 amps, and the access capacity of the power grid is very high. Therefore, when we do charging piles, each heavy truck charging pile is constructed as a micro-grid, so that the entire charging station becomes a high-quality new power system network element. "Faced with the market competition of other manufacturers in the industry who have laid out supercharging technology, Hou Jinlong has always maintained an open attitude and said that he welcomes other manufacturers to join the supplementary circuit to jointly promote the development of the industry. He also clearly explained the core differences of Huawei's supercharging program. Hou Jinlong said that other charging solutions in the industry are more about the battery itself, and the core is to improve the charging rate of the battery, while Huawei does a complete system." Our system must first consider the integration with the grid to solve the problem of high-power charging grid adaptation; second, our charging pile must take into account the adaptation of all models, no matter what brand or magnification model, to obtain the best charging experience; third, we always put safety first, and solve the charging safety, station safety, and energy storage safety problems brought about by high current; fourth, we not only do hardware, but also provide a complete operating system for charging operators to help operators improve operational efficiency and revenue. Hou Jinlong said. Technological innovation and ecological synergy determine the global industrial discourse power. When the global new energy automobile industry enters a new stage of comprehensive competition, the competition logic of the industry has long been upgraded from the competition of a single enterprise and a single product to the competition of the industrial chain ecology, and finally settled on the discourse power of global technical standards. After more than ten years of development, China's new energy vehicle industry has achieved global leadership in vehicle manufacturing, power batteries and other fields. However, there is still a gap with the world's top players in the global layout of complementary energy standards and underlying technology ecology. Hou Jinlong repeatedly stressed that the high-quality development of the new energy automobile industry has never been a one-man show for an enterprise. Only by synergizing and win-win across the entire industry chain can we truly promote the long-term healthy development of the industry. This is also the core intention of Huawei to promote the construction of super-charge alliance and adhere to the open and cooperative ecology. This idea runs through the entire chain layout of Huawei Supercharging and Huawei Intelligent Engine. In the field of supercharging, since the establishment of the supercharging alliance promoted by Huawei in 2024, the members have expanded from the original passenger car companies to commercial vehicle companies, battery manufacturers, charging operators, logistics companies and other industry chain entities, such as Beiben Heavy Duty Truck, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle, Xugong Automobile, China Heavy Duty Truck and other automobile companies have joined, and dozens of megawatt supercharged heavy truck models have been announced. The core value of the alliance is to break the long-standing industry pain points of "non-uniform standards and incompatible equipment" in the industry, realize the interconnection of equipment, so that all models in the alliance can get the best charging experience at the alliance's supercharging station, and truly achieve "high-quality charging where there is a road". In the field of smart electric, Huawei Intelligent Engine also upholds an open ecological logic. Huawei has always adhered to the boundary of "no car". As a technical partner, Huawei provides car companies with systematic solutions in the sports field to help them make good cars. This neutral positioning has allowed Huawei to obtain extensive cooperation from domestic and foreign car companies. At the end of the interview, Hou Jinlong said that when the entire industry is caught in cost competition, Huawei always puts quality, performance and safety first, which is not only the root cause of Huawei's customer recognition, but also the core of the high-quality development of the new energy automobile industry. “We have always been a sports domain and charging network solution provider. The core is to help car manufacturers build good cars through technological product innovation, help operators build high-quality charging networks, and ultimately bring users a better e-mobility experience." When China's new energy automobile industry stands at the tide of global competition, the curtain of the third wave has been fully opened. What determines the future of the industry is the continuous breakthrough of the underlying technology and the synergy and symbiosis of the industrial ecology. And with the comprehensive landing of Huawei's smart engine and super-enrichment ecology, China's new energy automobile industry will surely come out of a win-win path of high-quality development in the global competition.