Status checked 2026-09-23 · 🇶🇦 Qatar

AITO M8 in Qatar: can you get one?

No — there is no official way to buy the AITO M8 in Qatar today.

AITO (Seres / Huawei HIMA) has dealers in mainland China and the United Arab Emirates only. AITO only began selling outside mainland China in February 2026, when Seres signed Performance Plus Motors — part of the Abu Dhabi Motors group — as its first overseas dealer and started deliveries of the AITO 9 (the export name for the M9) in the UAE. The UAE is so far the brand's only export market with a dealer network.

Brand export status checked 2026-09-23 — CnEVPost 2026-02-06 — Aito signs UAE dealer (Performance Plus Motors / Abu Dhabi Motors) to kickstart global expansion; AITO 9 test drives under way, cars landed at Dubai port; Reuters / MarketScreener 2026-02-06 — Seres says Aito signed a deal with Performance Plus Motors to enter the Middle East; kr-asia 2026-02 — Aito partners with Abu Dhabi Motors to enter the UAE; CarNewsChina / CnEVPost 2025-09 — M5/M8/M9 shown at IAA Munich with no European launch date or price confirmed.

Officially sold there?No
Import barrierNo China-specific EV tariff; standard Gulf import duties apply.
China price (reference)≈ $54,400–$66,100 (from 369,800 RMB after the March 2026 update, up from 359,800 RMB; 2025 line-up ran 359,800–449,800 RMB)
Model statusOn sale in China

Small but affluent Gulf market with rising Chinese EV presence.

AITO M8 specs

BodySUV — Large SUV
RangeBEV: 705 km CLTC rear-drive, 655 km CLTC all-wheel drive, on a 100 kWh CATL NMC pack. Range-extender: 161 / 235 / 240 km CLTC electric-only (36 or 52 kWh), up to 1,526 km CLTC combined
PowertrainSold both as a battery-electric SUV and as a 1.5 L range-extender. BEV: 227 kW (304 hp) single-motor rear-drive or 387 kW (519 hp) dual-motor, on Huawei's Giant Whale 800 V platform. Range-extender: 165 kW front and 227 kW rear motors with a 118 kW 1.5 L generator, 200 km/h top speed. Huawei Turing intelligent chassis

China-market figures, checked 2026-08-03 · sources: CnEVPost 2025-04-16, CnEVPost 2025-08-25, CarNewsChina 2025-08-25, CnEVPost 2026-03-23, newmobility.news 2025-09-10, CnEVPost 2026-02-06. A version sold or imported into Qatar may differ in specification.

So what can you buy in Qatar?

These are the Chinese EVs we track that do have an official route into Qatar — each one links to the same check we just ran for the AITO M8.

The rest of what we track for Qatar:

All Chinese EVs checked for Qatar →

Where can you buy the AITO M8?

We have not found an official route to the AITO M8 in any of the 31 countries we track. If you know of one we have missed, tell us — we only publish availability we can source.

Track the AITO M8 for Qatar

Seres has called the UAE deal "a new starting point" for the Middle East, and AITO showed the M8, M9 and M5 at IAA Munich in September 2025, but no second country has been given a launch date, a price or a dealer. Reports of showrooms opening in Saudi Arabia or Qatar are so far projections by motoring blogs, not company announcements, so we do not count them. Independent importers do advertise these cars outside China and the UAE. Buying that way means no manufacturer warranty, no official service network, no guarantee that the Huawei software and assisted-driving features work on local maps and networks, and type-approval is your problem.

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This reflects Qatar's general framework for Chinese-made EVs and the model's known status as of 2026-09-23. It is general information, not legal or import advice. Rules change — confirm with official sources before acting.