Strip the Saic H5 back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Gasoline engine, 200-240 hp. SAIC Motor built from 2025, in the decade the industry is turning electric.
The background
The SAIC H5 (Chinese: 尚界H5; pinyin: Shàngjiè H5) is a battery electric and range extender mid-size crossover SUV manufactured by SAIC Motor in collaboration with Huawei. Based on the later released MGS6 EV, it is the first model of the SAIC sub-brand of the Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance. The marque is SAIC is also the name of its manufacturer.
The engineering
Power comes from Gasoline engine; 200-240 hp is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1985 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 101 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. The wheelbase is 2840 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Shanghai, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Renault Boreal, the Nissan N7, the Chery Fulwin A9L — show what else the money bought that year. Its SAIC Motor stablemates include the MG 4 EV and the MG S5 EV.