On May 20, the opening ceremony and starting ceremony of the 2025 China Taklimakan Rally was held in the film town of Aksu City, Xinjiang. The extreme journey of 10 stages and 5,183 kilometers is about to begin. Taklimakan Rally, one of the most brutal off-road events in Asia, is a natural extreme test field composed of desert, Gobi, high temperature and sandstorm. It has always been a touchstone for testing vehicle performance and team will.

In 2025, the Taklimakan Rally will set up a new energy group for the first time. This traditional fuel off-road event officially opens the door to the era of electrification and intelligence. As a representative brand of China's high-end electric off-road, Dongfeng MHERO has joined hands with the Blade China Pathfinder Automobile Team to strongly participate in the 2025 Taklimakan Rally. MHERO's "electric wildness" has ushered in a historic opportunity.

"Original three-electric", hard-core verification of the reliability of MHERO

The Dongfeng MHERO participating in this competition combines military vehicle genes, intelligent electric drive and extreme performance. As the first luxury electric off-road model launched by MHERO Technology under Dongfeng Motor Group, it has refreshed the industry's understanding of electric off-road with its subversive technical architecture, extreme off-road performance and cutting-edge intelligent configuration. At the opening ceremony of the 2025 Taklimakan Rally, two MHERO vehicles showing exclusive military vehicle design genes and distinctive "heroic spirit" spirit boarded the starting platform under the attention of the public, and its new blue and orange color scheme was eye-catching.

The MHERO racing car strictly follows the modification rules of the T2 mass-produced off-road vehicle group, retains the core three-electric system, and only makes safety protection modifications such as roll cages and safety seats, etc., retaining the "original flavor" of the Dongfeng MHERO mass-produced car, and with the hard-core attitude of "factory is the track", verifying its reliability performance in extreme environments.

Strong performance creates fearless confidence in the Taklimakan Rally

The total mileage of the 2025 Taklimakan Rally is 5,183 kilometers, and the stage mileage is about 2,300 kilometers, covering extreme terrains such as the Taklimakan Desert, Gobi, and Yadan. The record-breaking event intensity tests every car. The two-speed gearbox matched with Dongfeng MHERO has an integrated differential lock function and adopts a modular design to take into account both front and rear drive. Among them, the off-road 1st gear mode can achieve high torque output, and the dual-motor power coupling ensures a steady stream of strong power output, which can provide drivers with continuous and reliable driving confidence in the extreme challenges of the Taklimakan Rally.

Dongfeng MHERO is equipped with a combination of front and rear electronically controlled differential locks + central mortise and tenon differential locks, which supports 100% mechanical locking, high reliability, high torque transfer efficiency, and ensures the ability to "get out of trouble in seconds" under extreme road conditions; at the same time, with the support of MHERO's intelligent all-terrain system MATLAB, Dongfeng MHERO supports 5 off-road modes including snow, mud, sand, rock, and wading, and 1 intelligent off-road mode, which can automatically identify 9 complex road environments including snow, grass, gravel, mud, ruts, sand, deep snow, rock, and water. It can cope with all kinds of road conditions and build a fearless confidence to fight around the Taklimakan with hard-core off-road performance.

Full escort, building a reliable logistics defense line

As a long-distance off-road event spanning thousands of kilometers, integrating "difficult, dangerous, strange, and beautiful", the Taklimakan Rally not only has extremely high requirements for participating vehicles, but also a great test for the team's logistics support system.

In the extreme challenge of the Taklimakan Rally, Dongfeng MHERO is the main battle vehicle charging ahead. Dongfeng MHERO jointly undertake the important tasks of safety guarantee, vehicle inspection and maintenance, medical support, etc., escorting Dongfeng MHERO in every stage of the race, and building a reliable logistics defense line for the team.

As a new masterpiece of Dongfeng MHERO Technology, MHERO is a new intelligent off-road flagship model jointly launched by MHERO brand and Huawei. It pioneered the perfect integration of military-grade off-road genes and Huawei's cutting-edge intelligent technology. It not only inherits the off-road capability and reliability brought by MHERO military genes, but also carries a full set of Huawei Qiankun intelligent car solutions. The intelligence has further leaped, allowing the vehicle to perceive, think and evolve like a human. This time, MHERO will serve as the strongest backing of the MHERO team to help MHERO fight on the battlefield.

The establishment of the new energy group of the 2025 Taklimakan Rally is not only an adjustment of the competition rules, but also a "high-voltage" test of the full-scene capabilities of electric off-road vehicles. It is a key testing ground for measuring the level of China's new energy off-road technology.

The 2025 Taklimakan Rally is not a simple competition for MHERO, but a quenching and forging of the brand's technical label. I believe that Dongfeng MHERO will continue to accumulate valuable data through competition feedback in the hard-core challenges of the Taklimakan Rally in the next ten days, from chassis tuning, drive strategy optimization, to hardware redundancy design and other aspects, to promote the iterative evolution of new energy off-road technology, and feed back to the next generation of product research and development, so as to continue to bring consumers a more excellent new energy off-road experience and lead China's luxury electric off-road to a higher level.

In any case, in the desert sand of Taklimakan, Chinese brands are writing their own new energy off-road epics.