"Mr. Li, what are your plans for the future projects of our gearbox R&D unit?"

Zhou Yuanchao has a lot of ideas in his heart, but because he first arrived, he has not had much opportunity, and Li Yifan has talked in detail, and in the previous contact, he only understood that this is a very knowledgeable, very passionate, and energetic boss, but he is still not sure what he thinks about the research and development of transmissions.

Li Yifan glanced at Zhou Yuanchao in front of him, in his early forties, he was originally a calm person, but now there was a trace of apprehension in his eyes.

It seems that the few reassuring pills I gave him some time ago are still not enough, no, Lao Zhou has an idea.

"Haha, Zhou Gong, you talk about it first, what do you know about the current domestic and international gearbox field!"

Zhou Yuanchao was stunned, this is the boss's examination school, then I'm welcome, many years of life in Australia have made him not very familiar with the set of humble procedures in China, and this is what Li Yifan appreciates the most.

"At present, the international automotive transmission field is developing rapidly, and several large foreign enterprises have invested a lot. At present, there are only a few companies in the world that can completely manufacture automobile gearboxes. The strongest is Germany's ZF, as well as Japan's Aisin Seiko, and Jetco, and then Australia's DSI, some corner companies, as well as Germany's Luke, the United States' BorgWarner, but Luke and BorgWarner, currently do not have the ability to independently manufacture and produce gearboxes, they have their own specialties in some areas. For example, in the field of electronic control, there is also a dual-clutch transmission. In fact, Jetco is the same, Jetco is good at CVT continuously variable transmission. As for hydraulic transmissions, it's not what they're good at. ”

As an expert in the industry, in just a few words, the field of transmission in the world has been made clear.

"But as it stands, in this field, it's good to be able to survive and get a good deal. Should it be ZF, and Aisin, as for the case with DSI? Mr. Li, you should know better than me. ”

When Zhou Yuanchao said this. There was a wry smile on his face, what is the situation of DSI, he knows very well, until now. This company has been eating its old capital.

The current profitability is supported by Chrysler's assembly plant in Australia in the United States. However, the oil tiger of the United States, with the continuous growth of international oil prices, has gradually been replaced by Japanese cars.

Ford has already broken off the contract with DSI, and now DSI's situation can be said to be declining, almost losing money year after year, and no one knows how long this company can support itself.

"In terms of the current development prospects of transmissions, automatic transmissions are already the general trend. Although manual transmissions can still retain a certain market share, they will certainly not become mainstream. And in the field of automatic transmissions. Hydraulic automatic transmissions are definitely the mainstream in this market at the moment. At present, the world's top hydraulic automatic transmission is a five-speed one, but Aisin and ZF have developed a six-speed hydraulic automatic transmission, and it is believed that from next year, the six-speed automatic transmission will start to be popular in the market from high-end cars, and it will replace the current mainstream four-speed and five-speed hydraulic transmissions in a few years. And as far as I know, the Japanese have already begun to quietly start the development of an eight-speed automatic transmission. And the German Volkswagen plans to find another way and start producing dual-clutch transmissions, and there will definitely be a battle between the two in the future. ”

Zhou Yuanchao said something, Li Yifan shook his head when he heard it, what he said, Li Yifan seems to be exactly the same according to his own experience in later generations.

More than ten years later, the eight-speed automatic transmission is still high-end, and the six-speed automatic transmission firmly occupies the mainstream of the market, but the dual-clutch of the German Volkswagen is still very timely to come out and disrupt the situation.

Although the dual-clutch has one or another problem, it can still fight to the death with the hydraulic transmission by virtue of its high transmission efficiency and small shift frustration.

On the other hand, the CVT continuously variable transmission, because of Nissan and Jetco's continuous investment in research, has also quickly reached the level of the seventh and eighth generations.

A CVT transmission that has reached that level is also qualified to challenge the hydraulic transmission and dual-clutch transmission.

These are his memories of the transmission market, and the reason why he attaches so much importance to this transmission problem is because in more than ten years, Huaguo will become the world's largest automobile sales market, with more than 20 million cars sold every year, which will bring a market of more than 10 billion US dollars per year to the transmission field.

But sadly, at that time, there were very few domestic companies that could manufacture automatic transmissions, and they were still stuck by German and Japanese companies in this regard.

And the Chenhua he is in control of now, he will never allow a foreign-funded transmission company to dominate in China.

He was destined to take a bite of this cake!

"As for the domestic transmission manufacturing enterprises, hehe! Mr. Li, you should know better than me that they can't even do a manual transmission right now. ”

When talking about domestic transmission manufacturing enterprises, Zhou Yuanchao's face was naturally replaced with a look of anger and misfortune and hatred.

With such good resources and such a good market, it can be said that domestic transmission companies have a lot of good cards in their hands, but in the end, they can give you a smash, and the two kings are thrown out by four and two, but they are all picked up by foreigners, which is really speechless.

"Zhou Gong, I told you before, if you join Chenhua, I will invest 100 million yuan in the early stage to set up a special transmission research and development department, and then it will depend on your results. If your R&D goes well, it cannot be ruled out that I will set up a company similar to Aisin or ZF that integrates transmission R&D, production and manufacturing. But do you have any plans for the future? In other words, what kind of transmission are you going to develop? ”

Li Yifan asked Zhou Yuanchao with a smile, as soon as he heard him say this, Zhou Yuanchao was a little uneasy, with such a boss, he had a feeling that a confidant died.

"Boss, in fact, when we were at DSI, we have been keeping up with the international trend, and we also want to take multi-pronged measures, such as dual-clutch transmission, and CVT, we want to do it, but we have been trapped by the lack of R&D funds. If we go back to China, I think the first thing we need to do is the CVT transmission, after all, this kind of transmission has a simple structure, no patent restrictions, and we have a preliminary foundation. In addition, the current popular mainstream in China is small displacement cars, and the highest domestic car is only 2.4 displacement cars, so the use of CVT transmission is enough, although CVT has this or that disadvantage, but I think it is the most suitable for the current domestic market. ”

Lao Zhou is also a person with ideas, back in China, the boss has invested so much, then you have to hurry up and get results, he knows that the boss wants them to join, just want to engage in automatic transmission.

And if you want to get results in this area, then engage in CVT, this is the fastest!

Li Yifan nodded, this old boy also knows how to be flexible, in his last life, he joined Chery, after taking charge of the transmission research and development department, the first thing he came up with was the CVT transmission, and later this small automatic transmission once became Chery's flagship product, and it was also unique in China.

But that's not what he wants, he's ambitious.

"Zhou Gong, let me tell you my thoughts, if you bring your team to join my company, the first thing to do is to give me the 4AT localization first. Now this transmission, although it is gradually being eliminated by the international mainstream, is enough for the domestic market that lags behind the international era! The second is that you should hurry up and localize DSI's six-speed transmission. Don't frown, I know, DSI has a six-speed transmission, but you don't have to worry about patents. Because their six-speed automatic transmission is designed to work with those American muscle cars, they developed it specifically for rear-wheel drive cars, and what I want you to do is change it to be specifically for front-wheel drive cars. And this is in our country, even if they want to pass the patent, it is not so easy to sue us, and I am not afraid of a lawsuit with them. And then there's the CVT you mentioned, and I have a lot of ideas for this part, as well as the dual-clutch, so don't ......give up."

Li Yifan's words stunned Zhou Yuanchao, he knew that this boss was ambitious, but this appetite was also big, right?

Not only does he want to do it, but he also wants to make a big deal!

In the field of transmissions, if you calculate it like this, there is nothing he doesn't want to do?

"Also, in the field of manual transmissions, don't let it go, the six-speed manual transmission used on the Volkswagen Golf is very good, you come directly to copycat, rest assured, manual transmissions, there are not so many patent restrictions, they are like looking for trouble with us, and it is not so easy to ......"

Speaking of transmissions, Li Yifan is like a river, gushing endlessly, and even a little bit of eyebrows flying.

Zhou Yuanchao's mouth was wide open to stuff an egg, and the more he listened, the more he was shocked by the madness and boldness of this boss, what kind of rhythm was it?

Are you going against the sky? Do you know how much money you have to invest in R&D alone? You really don't take money as a rhythm for money, huh?

And Li Yifan looked at him, how could he not know what he was thinking?

Wipe! Afraid of a ball? Volkswagen's manual transmission, descendants have not been copycats, their dual-clutch, BYD dare to copycat, what is the result? Did you see the public going to sue?

Why don't they sue, because they know they can't win! Many domestic manufacturers still take patents too seriously!

Many domestic automobile manufacturers, when talking about transmissions, will use patents as an excuse for their incompetence, in fact? It's just that they are reluctant to spend money on R&D! (To be continued......)