AITO (Chinese: 问界; pinyin: Wènjiè) is a Chinese electric vehicle marque of Chinese vehicle manufacturer Seres Group and multinational technology corporation Huawei in 2021. The marque offers electric cars with autonomous driving systems and the HarmonyOS operating system.
AITO is the first brand under Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA, 鸿蒙智行) collaboration model, in which Huawei provides full-stack intelligent vehicle solutions for traditional auto manufacturers. Huawei also announced that other manufacturer partners such as Chery, BAIC Motor, and JAC Motors will apply the similar business model. The name AITO stands for "Adding Intelligence to Auto".
Seres (formerly SF Motors) is a brand of electric vehicle marketed by Seres Group (formerly Chongqing Sokon Industry Group). Several of their subsidiaries are also named "Seres". Seres Automobile Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 赛力斯汽车有限公司) (formerly Chongqing Jinkang New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. is an R&D and manufacturing subsidiary based in China.
A US subsidiary, SF Motors Inc., sometimes called Seres, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, represents Jinkang New Energy Automobile's business in US. SF Motors Inc. has established several R&D facilities and is in the process of designing and producing a U.S.-based, electric vehicle line.
