On September 17, the 11th Huawei Connect Conference opened at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center. In a corner of the HarmonyOS ecosystem exhibition area, a T150 scooter was quietly displayed. Its special feature lies not in the appearance, but in the vehicle head unit system — the Wuyang-Honda T150 prototype equipped with the HarmonyOS ecosystem is one of the few products participating in this conference with a fuel-powered two-wheeler enterprise identity.

From jointly building the intelligent computing center in May this year, to appearing at the Huawei Developer Conference in June, to stepping onto the HC Conference stage this time, Wuyang-Honda's participation in the Huawei ecosystem is gradually deepening. While local motorcycle enterprises such as Zongshen, CFMOTO, and Qianjiang compete for market discourse with the "intelligence" label, this joint venture chose a different path: do not abandon the internal combustion engine, but allow fuel motorcycles to "connect" to the digital world.

A Noteworthy "Identity"

It is understood that the T150 equipped with the HarmonyOS ecosystem is a city commuting scooter model built on the Wuyang-Honda eW15 water-cooled four-valve engine platform. The engine is derived from the same source as Honda's eSP+ technology, with a maximum power of 11.4kW/8500rpm and a maximum torque of 14.4N·m/6500rpm, balancing power output and low fuel consumption performance. On the basis of retaining mechanical texture and handling fun, the T150 prototype is equipped with an intelligent vehicle system integrating the HarmonyOS ecosystem. Relying on Wuyang-Honda's existing WiLINK full-domain intelligent architecture, combined with the distributed capabilities of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, the T150 achieves seamless handover of navigation tasks between the vehicle's large screen and HarmonyOS terminals. Users can achieve cross-end collaboration of functions such as vehicle positioning, remote connectivity, vibration anti-theft alerts, and riding trajectory recording through HarmonyOS devices, enabling fuel motorcycles to have partial connected experiences of smart terminals.

In the two-wheeler travel landscape of the Huawei HarmonyOS ecosystem, the current participants are mostly electric brands. NIU signed the "Hongtu Plan" with Huawei Consumer Business Group and the GIIC Alliance in August, planning to scale the installation of open HarmonyOS system to cover 200,000 vehicles within the year; Aima Technology signed a deepened cooperation agreement with Huawei in May, focusing on two-wheeler travel intelligence and HarmonyOS ecosystem integration; Zongshen introduced HarmonyOS and AI algorithms even earlier.

Wuyang-Honda's entry logic is different. Fuel motorcycles do not have the inherent electronic and electrical architecture foundation of an electric platform, and the computing power supply, power supply stability, and heat dissipation conditions of the vehicle head unit system are more restricted. On the basis of retaining the eW15 water-cooled four-valve engine platform, Wuyang-Honda "grafted" the distributed capabilities of the HarmonyOS ecosystem onto the existing WiLINK full-domain intelligent architecture, achieving seamless handover of navigation tasks between the vehicle's large screen and HarmonyOS terminals, as well as cross-end collaboration functions such as vehicle positioning, remote connectivity, and vibration anti-theft alerts.

In other words, it is not "stacking" intelligent configurations on fuel motorcycles, but enabling "connection" to the intelligent ecosystem for the fuel platform. For a large number of traditional motorcycle enterprises that are still producing fuel models, this provides a referable technical path.

A Complete Chain

On May 8, the intelligent computing center jointly built by Wuyang-Honda and Huawei Digital Power was unveiled and put into use at the Guangzhou Zengcheng Factory. The center adopts Huawei's FusionModule20006.0 intelligent micro-module architecture, planning to form a hybrid layout of "20P local computing power + 50P cloud computing power" by 2030, serving R&D simulation, intelligent manufacturing, vehicle networking data analysis, and whole-vehicle OTA. The computing power planning of the intelligent computing center explicitly includes "whole-vehicle OTA" and "vehicle networking data analysis". This means Wuyang-Honda's intelligent layout was not a single-point breakthrough from the beginning, but a chain-like promotion of "computing infrastructure — data platform — product-end intelligence". Build computing power base in May, showcase HarmonyOS head unit capabilities at HDC in June, step onto HC Conference in September to showcase the T150 prototype equipped with HarmonyOS ecosystem — three steps, clear logic.

At the 2026 China Motorcycle Chongqing Forum, Liu Xin, Vice President of the China Motorcycle Chamber of Commerce, stated that the entire industry must "firmly follow the path of intelligent, green, and high-end development, replacing homogeneous low-price competition with technology iteration". This chain of Wuyang-Honda is precisely the embodiment of this path.

Honda's "Chinese-style Intelligence"

Examined within Honda's global strategy, this step by Wuyang-Honda has more typical significance.

Honda has already made clear plans in the electrification field: 2024 is positioned as the first year of global expansion of electric motorcycles, with plans to launch electric vehicle models globally every year, and products such as UC3 have been introduced to the Thailand and Vietnam markets first. In terms of intelligence, Honda launched the RoadSyncDuo connectivity feature, achieving linkage between smartphones and vehicle displays. But overall, Honda's pace in two-wheeler intelligence is relatively steady, and there is tension between the global unified platform strategy and the demand for rapid iteration in the Chinese market.

Wuyang-Honda is at the forefront of Honda's global system. According to Zhang Wenqing's introduction to the media in April this year, Wuyang-Honda is currently Honda's factory with the largest production of electric two-wheelers, and products are not only exported to Vietnam and Indonesia, but even re-exported to Japan. In terms of intelligence, Wuyang-Honda's independently developed intelligent platform has been installed on every car, and technologies such as voice control and intelligent driving assistance are under development.

"In China, for China, and even for the world" — Wuyang-Honda's role is shifting from a joint venture manufacturing base to the intelligence test field in Honda's global system. Its cooperation with the HarmonyOS ecosystem is essentially leveraging China's local intelligent ecosystem capabilities to feed back into the intelligent upgrade of Honda's global products. This "reverse empowerment" model is still rare in joint venture car companies.

"Route Differentiation" in Two-Wheeler Intelligence

Wuyang-Honda's choice reflects an important fork in the current two-wheeler intelligence track.

One route takes the electric platform as the natural carrier. Brands such as NIU, Luyuan, and Aima carry out intelligent upgrades around open HarmonyOS or self-developed systems, and vehicles possess complete digital capabilities from the underlying operating system to the application layer. The cooperation between Luyuan and ShenKaiHong explicitly proposes to take "L2-Ultra Smart Two-Wheeler" as the goal, promoting the whole vehicle to leap from "Connectivity Intelligence" to "System-Level Intelligence".

The other route "connects" intelligent capabilities on the fuel platform, represented by Wuyang-Honda. Its challenge lies in: the electronic and electrical architecture of fuel vehicles does not have native digital conditions like electric vehicles, and the realization of intelligent functions requires additional computing power support and system adaptation. Wuyang-Honda's solution is to provide cloud computing power through the intelligent computing center, provide terminal-side connectivity through WiLINK+ HarmonyOS ecosystem, and form a "Cloud — Terminal — Vehicle" collaborative architecture.

The coexistence of the two routes shows that the two-wheeler intelligence has not yet formed a unified technical paradigm. When CFMOTO launched the C-Link intelligent platform, Qianjiang released the ParaPal Surging Intelligent Architecture, and Loncin and Zongshen explored "Moto Cloud" platforms respectively, the industry is experiencing a technical competition with multiple paths running in parallel, rather than a simple "who replaces who".

Wuyang-Honda's exploration also reflects the three hurdles that two-wheeler intelligence must face head-on. First is cost. Two-wheeler prices are sensitive, and there is a natural tension between intelligent hardware and R&D investment and terminal selling prices. Grafting the HarmonyOS ecosystem on the fuel platform for T150 makes cost control more difficult. Second is standards. Each OEM's communication protocols and data interfaces form their own systems, and security standards such as information security and OTA upgrades are not yet sound; at the international level, the UN R155 regulations have included L-category motorcycles within the regulatory scope, requiring new certified models to establish a network security management system starting from December 11, 2027, and the compliance cost for going global should not be underestimated. Third is technical maturity. Millimeter-wave radar and cameras still have high false alarm rates in complex environments. Two-wheelers have stricter requirements for volume, power consumption, and anti-vibration. V2X also lacks dedicated two-wheeler standards. These challenges are not unique to Wuyang-Honda, but are thresholds that the entire industry must cross on the path to deep intelligence.

For traditional motorcycle enterprises that are still watching, Wuyang-Honda's path provides a referable idea — there is no need to overturn the fuel platform, but through computing infrastructure and ecosystem cooperation, allow fuel vehicles to obtain "partial connectivity experiences of smart terminals". Whether this road can be passed and how far it can go depends on whether costs can decrease with supply chain maturity, whether standards can be supplemented as soon as possible, and whether technology can find pragmatic solutions under the unique constraints of two-wheelers.

[Author: Qi Xiaoling]