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‘A different animal’: Inside Huawei’s new EV business

‘A different animal’: Inside Huawei’s new EV business

The Chinese tech giant’s multibillion-dollar unit is setting its sights on becoming a big supplier to the electric car industry despite US sanctions.

A Huawei-Aito M5 electric vehicle at the Smart China Expo in Chongqing, China. Bloomberg

Edward White and Tina Hu

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Shenzhen | Beijing | At Huawei’s electric vehicle division, a giant screen highlights two of the biggest changes in human mobility in the past 150 years: from horses to cars, and from the internal combustion engine to driverless EVs.

Huawei was not around for that first automotive revolution, but despite being heavily targeted by US sanctions, the Chinese tech powerhouse is determined not to be excluded from the second.

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