On December 30, CATARC officially announced the results of its 2025 winter testing. The all-new AITO M7 delivered outstanding performance in extreme low-temperature environments, earning two authoritative certificates: "Comprehensive Performance Verification" and "Intelligent Chassis Safety Technology Verification," demonstrating the vehicle's overall reliability and safety strength in extreme cold conditions.
CATARC is an authoritative third-party institution in China's automotive industry. This test was conducted at a professional facility with temperatures as low as -30°C, simulating real-world winter driving scenarios in northern China such as extreme low temperatures and icy and snowy roads. It systematically and scientifically verified the vehicle's comprehensive performance in extreme cold across multiple dimensions of concern to users, including range and energy consumption, snowfield handling, and assisted driving safety.
Intelligent chassis strength fully demonstrated: stable handling on snow, no loss of control after a tire blowout
Winter travel conditions are complex, making vehicles highly prone to issues such as rolling backward while climbing on icy and snowy roads, slipping during acceleration and braking, emergency obstacle avoidance, and high-speed tire blowouts. In accordance with the 2025 CATARC Winter Test Comprehensive Technical Verification Protocol, this test specifically set up subjects including hill start on split-friction surfaces, snow surface climbing, snow surface acceleration and braking, and snow surface double lane change to examine the vehicle's handling stability on low-friction roads.
The AITO M7 delivered impressive results in the ice and snow handling tests, smoothly passing the 30% snow surface climbing and 20% split-friction hill start tests with no sideslip and no rollback throughout, steadily handling the challenges of low-friction roads. It also smoothly passed the snow surface 0-60 km/h acceleration and snow surface 60-0 km/h braking tests, with an acceleration time of less than 5 seconds and a braking distance of less than 35 m, outperforming mainstream industry levels. In the snow surface double lane change test, it passed smoothly at a speed exceeding 90 km/h, maintaining composure even in the face of complex icy and snowy road conditions.
At the same time, the all-new AITO M7 also underwent snowfield high-speed tire blowout control tests. The vehicle smoothly passed the subjects of straight-line tire blowout on snow, lane-change tire blowout on snow, and curve tire blowout on snow at speeds of 130 km/h, 80 km/h, and 70 km/h respectively, demonstrating industry-leading safety strength.
This outstanding performance is inseparable from the excellent chassis performance of the all-new AITO M7. The vehicle comes standard across all variants with an all-aluminum alloy double-wishbone front suspension and a five-link independent rear suspension, combining handling stability with comfort. At the same time, range-extender versions are equipped with the HUAWEI DATS Dynamic Adaptive Torque System, which can detect vehicle status at the millisecond level and precisely adjust torque and power, effectively suppressing extreme situations such as rollover and fishtailing, and enhancing winter travel safety.
Assisted driving protection around the clock: calmly handling extreme and complex scenarios
In daily winter driving scenarios, factors such as low temperatures, backlight and blowing snow, and low light at night can easily degrade the perception capability of assisted driving systems and increase driving risks. In this test, CATARC set up multiple daily risk scenarios to examine the safety of the all-new AITO M7's HUAWEI Qiankun ADS 4 assisted driving system.
The all-new AITO M7 features 34 high-precision sensors (including a 192-line lidar, a high-precision solid-state lidar, and distributed 4D millimeter-wave radars, etc.), enabling all-weather 360° perception with no blind spots. Even in icy and snowy environments as low as -30°C, it can accurately identify various targets.
In the disappearing lead vehicle ACC test and the child dummy jaywalking AEB test, the AITO M7's assisted driving system made rapid decisions, performing smooth braking at speeds of 60 km/h and 30 km/h respectively, successfully avoiding collision risks. In the nighttime stationary vehicle ACC test and the nighttime child dummy crossing ACC test, the powerful fusion perception capability enabled the vehicle to accurately identify targets even under poor lighting conditions, actively avoiding danger at speeds of 80 km/h and 30 km/h respectively, building a solid safety defense for travel in complex winter scenarios.
In addition, CATARC also verified key indicators of the AITO M7 such as pure electric range, fuel consumption under depleted battery conditions, heating, and low-temperature charging. The vehicle performed excellently in all the above tests and smoothly passed the assessment of all items.
In addition to rigorous testing by authoritative institutions, recent winter real-world test results from multiple media outlets have further confirmed the outstanding performance of the AITO M7. In the Autohome 2025 Winter Grand Test, the AITO M7 won four first-place honors in the pure electric mid-to-large SUV category, reflecting the vehicle's efficient energy management capability and high reliability in extreme environments. In addition, the vehicle also passed three high-difficulty ice and snow off-road subjects in one go (icy split-friction slope, snow A-shaped slope, and snow pulley group), demonstrating excellent vehicle performance.
The all-new AITO M7 passed multidimensional extreme cold challenges from institutions and media with excellent results, which is not only a strong confirmation of product reliability, but also a vivid manifestation of AITO's commitment to building products with high safety, high reliability, high performance, high quality, and high value. The all-new AITO M7 accumulated more than 40,000 deliveries within 68 days of launch, and accumulated more than 100,000 firm orders within 72 days of launch. With outstanding product strength and reputation, it has become the value choice in the 300,000-yuan-class SUV segment and a trusted intelligent travel partner for many consumers.
