| Product type | Electric cars | ||||||
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| Owner | SAIC Motor andHuawei | ||||||
| Produced by | SAIC Motor | ||||||
| Country | China | ||||||
| Introduced | April 2025; 1 year ago (2025) | ||||||
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| Website | hima.auto/shangjie | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 尚界 | ||||||
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SAIC (Chinese:尚界汽车;pinyin:Shàngjiè Qìchē), commonly known in English asShangjie, is a Chineseelectric vehicle brand established in 2025 bySAIC Motor. It is part ofHuawei'sHIMA multi-brand collaboration model, where Huawei handles product creation and design, provides technologies such as full-stackADAS solutions andinfotainment systems. It is named after SAIC Motor, who manufactures cars for the SAIC marque.[1]
English websites often refer to SAIC asShangjie to differentiate the marque and SAIC Motor.[2][3]
In April 2025, Yu Chengdong (Richard Yu), revealed in an interview that the fifth HIMA brand, developed in collaboration withSAIC Motor, which would be named Shangjie (尚界) in Chinese. The brand targets younger audience, and positioned as the most affordable among other HIMA brands. It occupies the mainstream market below the 200,000 yuan price segment.[4]
SAIC Motor invested 6 billion yuan and deployed over 5,000 engineers to integrate Huawei's systems and components into the planned model, internally codenamed ES39. The company also invested in a 'super factory' mirrored afterSeres super factory inChongqing that producesAITO models.[5]
Teasers of its first product, theSAIC H5, were first shown in July 2025.[6] The H5 went on sale in September 2025. Shortly after the launch event, HIMA announced that the SAIC H5 secured over 10,000 firm orders within the first hour. SAIC targets a monthly sales of 20,000 vehicles for the H5.[7]
SAIC Motor and Huawei's dedicated platform, which will be used by the SAIC marque, will not be used in any models until the brand's second model is complete. The brand's third model will be the first to be based on the new co-developed platform. It was announced on October 27, 2025 that both upcoming models for the brand arecrossover SUVs.[8]
Teasers of the marque's second product, theSAIC Z7, were first shown by the brand viaWeibo on January 7, 2026. The announcement of the Z7 contradicts the October 2025 announcement regarding the marque's two upcoming models.[9]