Huawei DriveONE: Safeguarding Every Drive

Huawei DriveONE ranked first in the "Quality Performance of Mid-range and High-end Electric Passenger Vehicle Powertrain Suppliers" at the 2025 China Auto Quality Research (AQR) Award Ceremony on September 25, 2025. This marks its third consecutive year as the industry's top supplier. This award, based on user feedback, highlights Huawei DriveONE's outstanding achievement of "zero safety incidents."

As a leading supplier in the power domain, Huawei DriveONE offers superior services and products compared to traditional component suppliers. It is committed to providing motion-domain solutions that feature convergence & simplicity, high safety & reliability, superior user experience, and cloud-based AI. Guided by the principle that "safety is the ultimate luxury," it elevates the quality benchmark for the electric vehicle (EV) industry.

By September 2025, Huawei DriveONE had shipped over 3.5 million units, supporting the delivery of over 2 million vehicles and accumulating a mileage of over 30 billion kilometers (equivalent to 750,000 circles around the Earth), while maintaining its record of "zero safety incidents."

This record is supported by a digital quality management system that spans the product lifecycle, along with technology convergence and innovations in the motion domain.

Digital Quality Management, Establishing a "Zero Incidents" Safety Benchmark

Huawei DriveONE integrates successful quality management practices from the automotive industry with its own quality system capabilities to build an advanced digital quality management system.

• Digital platform: Power Intelligent Operation Center (IOC) streamlining full-process data

The Power IOC digital platform streamlines the data flow between material suppliers and Huawei, significantly enhancing early warning management, AI-based analysis and optimization, and material specifications optimization.

Huawei DriveONE uses AI algorithms to identify quality risks and supply chain issues in advance, preventing potential problems. Furthermore, the platform intelligently optimizes material specifications and process parameters, continuously improving product design and manufacturing quality. Based on this digital platform, Huawei DriveONE consolidates full-process quality data from supplier incoming materials to product delivery, establishing a solid data foundation for quality management.

• Intelligent manufacturing: AI-based quality inspection and production line optimization.

In the manufacturing phase, Huawei DriveONE integrates digital and intelligent technologies to build advanced capabilities for intelligent manufacturing. Factories extensively use image recognition and AI algorithms for quality inspection and process control, thereby eliminating quality risks during manufacturing. For example, at Huawei's Southern Factory, the DriveONE production line achieved full automation of its key processes in 2024, reducing the powertrain defect rate by 56%.

• Vehicle health report (VHR): minute-level risk warning

Huawei DriveONE's VHR warning mechanism uses AI algorithms to analyze data and identify vehicle faults in minutes. It transforms passive maintenance into proactive services, significantly improving user safety and experience. Currently, the VHR warning mechanism has been deployed across more than 20 vehicle models, increasing the improvement rate for power-related issues in the market to over 90%.

Motion Domain Convergence, Redefining Driving Safety and Experience

In recent years, the EV industry has completed the power transition from engine to motor, achieving a leap in acceleration performance. The next focus is the fully-electrified and intelligent motion control in all directions (longitudinal, lateral, and vertical), fundamentally enhancing vehicle safety and stability in braking, cornering, and over bumps.

Huawei DriveONE outlines three stages of technology evolution in the motion domain:

• Instinctive safety: Pursue breakthroughs in the performance of individual components, such as high-speed motors.

• Instinctive and redundant safety: Enable intercomponent collaboration and local closed-loop control, establishing a dual-protection mechanism for instinctive and redundant safety.

• All-domain safety: Achieve deep convergence and distributed intelligence in the longitudinal, lateral, and vertical directions to develop system-level safety capabilities.

Following these three stages, Huawei DriveONE introduces the motion-domain convergence concept, which leverages collaborative control across the vehicle. This embeds safety into all aspects of vehicle motion rather than depending on the performance limits of a single component, embodying the principle that "safety is the ultimate luxury." To achieve this, Huawei DriveONE focuses on two key areas.

First, Huawei DriveONE optimizes the control architecture by systematically building local, self-contained closed-loop capabilities at the wheel side. The system can quickly adjust motion control in complex scenarios, such as on slopes, icy roads, and rough terrain, significantly enhancing the vehicle's stability and safety during dynamic driving.

Second, Huawei DriveONE improves system design by replacing traditional "siloed" components with a unified control model for both human driving and intelligent driving. The model implements end-to-end integrated management that covers sensing, planning, and control, ensuring consistent control objectives and unified collaboration among all components to maximize overall system performance.

Based on these technical breakthroughs, Huawei DriveONE has enhanced driving safety and experience in four core dimensions:

• Safety boundary expansion: System synergy control improves key safety performance, such as safe speed for emergency obstacle avoidance and safe speed in the event of high-speed tire blowouts, by 20%. A test vehicle can avoid obstacles at 110 km/h on snowy roads after a tire blowout, pushing the boundaries of proactive safety further.

• Energy efficiency optimization: Precise power output and converged vehicle energy efficiency optimization drive the entire industry toward the goal of "10 km per kWh," effectively alleviating range anxiety. Actual vehicle test results demonstrate a range of 12.4 km per kWh.

• Driving experience enhancement: Microsecond-level sensing and millisecond-level torque adjustment enable features such as acceleration slip regulation, imperceptible braking, and active anti-jerk control, delivering a smoother, more comfortable driving experience.

• Control performance breakthrough: A vehicle can accelerate from 0 km/h to 100 km/h in just 2 seconds. The braking distance is reduced by 5%, and the curve entry speed is increased by 10%. The turning radius is reduced through torque vector control, and pendulum parking, previously available only on vehicles with three or four motors, is achieved using dual motors.

The motion domain convergence solution from Huawei DriveONE is not only a technical upgrade but also a profound redefinition of vehicle safety: delivering safety protection as the ultimate luxury, shifting from passive protection to proactive prevention, and from single-point assurance to system-level protection.

Three-Dimensional Quality System, Building a Comprehensive Safety Defense Line

Huawei DriveONE aims to set a high-quality benchmark in the automotive power domain. It has established a unique three-dimensional quality system comprising core quality, basic quality, and prime quality to firmly secure product safety.

Core quality ensures no leakage, no fire, and no loss of control. This is the non-negotiable technical bottom line for Huawei DriveONE and the fundamental principle of its product design.

Basic quality prevents power degradation and abnormal noise. Huawei DriveONE uses all-scenario risk analysis to systematically identify and prevent potential risks during the R&D phase. In the manufacturing phase, it adopts a unique "red, yellow, and green lights" mass-production management system to dynamically evaluate and control key processes and quality metrics, ensuring consistent, stable, and high-quality product delivery across factories and supply chains.

Prime quality delivers a reliable travel experience that exceeds expectations. Huawei DriveONE partners with automakers to build a safety architecture for the motion domain, extending safety capabilities to the control dimension and improving vehicle stability in scenarios such as emergency obstacle avoidance and tire blowouts. The system also integrates cloud data and AI analysis capabilities to implement predictive maintenance of key components, shifting from passive maintenance to proactive protection and providing users with more convenient and valuable vehicle assurance.

Summary

Quality and safety are the highest priorities for Huawei Digital Power.

Huawei DriveONE redefines driving safety and experience through its robust digital quality system, innovative motion-domain convergence solution, and motion-domain intelligence. It also provides a replicable and evolvable quality management methodology, setting a high-quality benchmark for the power domain in the automotive industry and delivering safety assurance as the ultimate luxury in the EV era.