AITO M8
The AITO M8 is a full-size luxury SUV manufactured by Seres under the AITO brand in collaboration with HIMA, Huawei's multi-brand automotive alliance. The M8 is available in two powertrains, range extender electric and battery electric.
History
The AITO M8 officially opened for reservations on 6 March 2025 and it was later officially launched on 16 April 2025.Design and equipment
The M8 is very similar in size to the more expensive AITO M9, only having a shorter length and shorter wheelbase and height. Like the M9, it is also available in two-row 5-seater and three-row 6-seater variants.The exterior has a similar overall design language to the M9. The front features a lower air intake grille, high-mounted headlights connected by a light bar element, and air vents at the corners serving as wheel well air curtains. The headlight surrounds have an illuminated star pattern, and the headlights are capable of projecting images onto the ground. The rear features a light bar design taillight element, which consists of an LED display array capable of displaying customizable designs. The doors are power operated, and can be controlled by gestures from outside; the rear hatch has a kick-sensing opening feature. It is available in six colors: Gilded Black, Warm Cloud White, Interstellar Blue, Meadow Green, Galaxy, and Dawn Light.
The interior shares a similar layout to the M9, with an array of three displays integrated into the dashboard, supplemented by a 68-inch AR-HUD. The centre console contains two wireless charging pads, two cupholders, and a storage compartment. It is equipped with a 19-speaker sound system, featuring two speakers integrated into the driver's seat headrest. The back of the center console contains a refrigerator compartment and a control display for the rear seats and climate control zones. The rear seats have access to a 32-inch projector display, which can retract into a narrow 'floating window' mode to display passive information such as music, navigation and weather; it can also display a 100-inch outside the vehicle. In six-seater models, the passenger side second row seat has a 'zero-gravity' recline function, and the front passenger seat can fold forward to serve as a footrest if unoccupied; six-seater models have a 'quasi-zero gravity' seat instead, and the third row can recline between 25–33°. The interior is available in four colors: Baisha Apricot, Red Tea Orange, Amber Brown, and Nebula Red.
Six-seater models have of rear cargo space, while five-seater models have. It can pass the moose test at, and can brake from in.
It is equipped with Huawei's ADS 3.0 ADAS system, with a sensor suite that includes one roof-mounted 192-line solid-state LiDAR sensor, seven mmWave radars of which five are 4D, 11 cameras, and 12 ultrasonic sensors. It is capable of supervised autonomous driving and collision avoidance.
Powertrain
At launch, the M8 is a range extender electric and battery electric vehicle with all-wheel drive. It has a 1.5-litre turbocharged direct-injected petrol engine supplied by Seres producing. It has a front motor and a rear motor, outputting a combined. Power is supplied by a choice of two CATL-supplied batteries, either a 36kWh LFP pack providing a CLTC range rating of, or a 52kWh NMC pack shared with the M9 providing of range. It has a combined range of up to, a 0– time of 5.2 seconds, and a top speed of.Safety
The M8 received the highest overall score in the C-NCAP 2024 revision when results were released in August 2025 with 93.7%, beating the previous best of 93.5% held by the Xiaomi SU7. It scored 5.62%, 7.34%, and 9.99% higher than average in the occupant protection, vulnerable road user protection, and active safety categories, respectively.Sales
The AITO M8 exceeded 7,500 orders after one hour and 21,000 orders after six hours, and 28,000 orders 12 hours after presales had kicked off in China on 6 March 2025. Two weeks later on 20 March 2025, Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance announced that the pre-orders for the M8 exceeded 70,000 units since the opening on 6 March. On 29 April, HIMA announced that the M8 has over 60,000 firm orders, and launched a long-wait compensation scheme where customers receive a 200 yuan discount each day their wait time exceeds 10 weeks capped at 10,000 yuan. Nine days later on 8 May, the M8 reached 70,000 firm orders.At a press event at Auto Shanghai 2025, Yu Chengdong said that 70% of the M8's majority family-oriented customers chose the 6-seater version.