Maextro · Full chronicle and history

On October 23, car influencer "Racing Frappuccino" publicly apologized to MAEXTRO on Xiaohongshu (RedNote), saying he would pay 300,000 yuan as determined by the court; the content involved included "Squatting Realm Private Gathering" and a video imitating anime characters to disparage the MAEXTRO S800.

On October 16, according to media reports, Huawei Executive Director and Terminal BG Chairman Yu Chengdong reposted MAEXTRO's statement on cooperating with a joint investigation by three departments, stating that justice may be late, but it will never be absent.

In response to the scandal of its brake pedal breaking three times in a row, Huawei's Maextro publicly released a test report issued by the Testing Center of the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute, claiming that it passed a 3000-newton force test.

On October 13, MAEXTRO Auto released third-party test results for the brake pedal, stating that the October 11 inspection met the QC/T 788—2018 standard, and that after the longitudinal force was tightened to 3000 newtons, the pedal showed no cracks or damage. Previously, a Dongchedi test video claimed that the pedal bracket broke during continuous emergency braking of three V800 vehicles. MAEXTRO has announced free upgrades for delivered users, with the plan expected to be finalized by the end of October and implemented starting November.

On October 11, Stelato customer service stated that once users who have ordered a car enter the lock-in period, the deposit cannot be refunded; Stelato had previously promised free upgrades for users who have taken delivery, but as of that day the specific plan had still not been determined.

On October 9, Xinhua News Agency deleted the response statement from Stelato regarding the brake fracture incident that it had previously reposted, and related topics in Weibo's top 50 trending searches were also entirely cleared.

On October 8, Xinhua News Agency's Weibo and WeChat official accounts published a whitewashing press release involving Maextro, and large numbers of questioning voices appeared in the comment section; the relevant comment section was switched to featured comments, and over a thousand comments were deleted across the entire internet at 1 a.m. on October 9.

Maextro announced that it has no problems of its own, attributing responsibility for vehicle issues to national standards, while rolling out a free upgrade plan; the announcement made no mention of a recall. Netizens pointed out that Harmony Intelligent Mobility (HIMA) has repeatedly used the free-upgrade routine before.

On October 9, an uploader on Bilibili posted a lyric-adapted work titled “Breakpoint,” satirizing the breakage of the brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato during a Dongchedi test. Netizens, imitating Yu Chengdong’s tone, quipped “the best lyric adaptation under 10 million.”

Affected by a video showing a broken brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato V800 during a test, JAC Motors shares hit the daily limit down at midday the same day, closing at 24.72 yuan, a drop of 10%.

Affected by the brake pedal breakage incident involving the Maextro V800, JAC Motors' closing price fell to 24.72 yuan on October 8, with more than 6 billion yuan wiped off its market cap in a single day.

On October 8, Dongchedi released a test video claiming that during a continuous emergency braking test from 100km/h to 0, the brake pedal brackets of three Zunjie V800 units priced between 766,000 and 1,016,000 yuan broke in succession, with none lasting more than 4 hard stops, contrasting with the official website's promotion of "multiple redundancy, steady as Mount Tai." There is online dispute over the force readings in the test, and the cause of the breakage remains to be verified.

On October 8, before Dongchedi took down the video showing the fracture of the MAEXTRO V800's brake carbon plate, some netizens found that on the Douyin platform, Huawei's Pura X View wide straight-screen phone was unable to play the video, while phones from other brands played it normally.

When Dongchedi conducted braking distance tests on the Stelato V800, a collaboration between Huawei and JAC Motors, the brake pedal brackets of all three vehicles tested in succession broke, drawing widespread public attention and causing JAC Motors' stock price to hit the limit down.