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Seeing Li Yifan's attitude, Zhou Yuanchao could only smile helplessly.

"Boss, it's not that I don't want to do it, but in this regard, we really lack people! This CVT is relatively easy to do, after all, this thing has been born for many years, and although it is not a mainstream product, but in the world, there are still many models in use, but the dual-clutch is not ordinary, this kind of transmission, although it has been born for decades, but since its birth, it has not been long before it was given up by many car designers, Volkswagen has only picked up fried cold rice in recent years, their new DSG transmission, although it is listed, but what are the specific consequences, Now it has to go through the test of the market, after all, the problem of DSG leakage is obvious, and whether Volkswagen can solve those problems has always been a key question. And on the other hand, we are indeed very short of professional design talents in this area. I'm trying to set up a design team like this now, but it's hard to find people! ”

After listening to Zhou Yuanchao's words, Li Yifan felt that he was also a little too hasty.

It is true that he is very anxious to catch up with the technology of the Germans and Japanese, but he forgets that our country has always been a short board in terms of design, and the main reason is because of the lack of talents.

In fact, there is no real shortage of professional design talents in our country, although the country's education has stifled the creativity and design ability of a considerable number of students.

However, it is not that there are no people in China who have the ability to create and design. It's just people who have such abilities. Now they are all big names in the industry.

Either as the backbone of the business in their respective companies. Either they go abroad to earn a high salary, and there are really few people who are willing to stay in China.

When Zhou Yuanchao returned to China and joined Chery, he set up a power transmission R&D department and served as the top officer, focusing on CVT transmissions.

As a result, it took six years to get its own CVT product.

At that time, BYD began to engage in dual-clutch, which was also after the popularization of Volkswagen's dual-clutch in China. They just started the tactics of returning people and engaging in reverse research and development.

In the end, it took four years to fully understand Volkswagen's technology.

And it was only under the condition of organizing a scientific research team of thousands of people that the success of reverse research and development was ensured, and now I let Zhou Yuanchao form a team, and I hope that he can achieve results within two years, which is indeed a bit too anxious.

"It seems that I'm really too anxious, but Lao Zhou, time is running out! The development trend of the domestic automobile industry in the future. I guess you should also have your own judgment. In the next few years, more and more people will buy cars in China, especially those who live in cities. Their consumption level will be higher and higher, and more and more urban people will have an immeasurable impact on urban traffic after buying a car. I think congestion will become a very common phenomenon in domestic cities in the future, and this will greatly promote the demand for automatic transmission models. Our hydraulic automatic transmission is a research direction, but you also know that when the hydraulic automatic transmission reaches six gears, it is actually a limit. In the future, there may be a higher-grade hydraulic automatic transmission, but such a transmission will also mean higher design costs and processing costs, and whether such a high-end transmission can be popularized in a large area in the future will be a problem. ”

Li Yifan's words made Zhou Yuanchao nod, this is indeed the case.

Hydraulic automatic transmission, when it developed to six gears, was actually a limit, and it is undeniable that people can indeed make hydraulic automatic transmissions with higher gears and more gears.

However, the internal structure of this kind of transmission will be more complex, and the shift logic, that is, the processing of the TCU logarithm, will also be quite complicated.

All indications show that the cost of such a transmission will be a big problem, and whether it can be popularized like low-level models in the future will become a big problem.

If it can only be applied to luxury cars, then what is the point for many ordinary people?

"Dual-clutch transmissions and CVT transmissions are different, they have a smoother shift and more fuel efficiency, which is their advantage, although they also have their own shortcomings, but in my opinion, these shortcomings, which used to be fatal, but now they are not necessarily so. Take the CVT transmission as an example, Jetco has insisted on it for decades, and now their CVT is getting better and better, the reliability is getting higher and higher, the production cost of this CVT is not high, the high is the later maintenance cost, the previous life of their CVT transmission is 40,000 kilometers, or five years, but you look at the present, their service life has reached 200,000 kilometers, more than ten years. And with the discovery of new materials, as well as the application of new technologies, the service life of their CVT transmissions, reliability, will be higher, although in dealing with intense driving, there is always little progress, but after all, not all drivers are racing drivers, not all consumers, need to drive fiercely, and there are many consumers who like comfort, which means that their market prospects are broader, such as the models they are now launching in North America, aren't they very popular? When it comes to reliability, it's especially thumbs up. ”

Li Yifan's words made Zhou Yuanchao's heart start churning.

When he first entered the field of transmission development, there was no doubt that hydraulic automatic transmissions were the dominant power in the field of automatic transmissions at that time.

Although CVT is also used in some models, it is definitely a niche product in terms of market scope.

At that time, 4AT occupied an absolute majority of the automatic transmission market, and it was estimated that it would stand at more than 80% of the entire automatic transmission market share.

But now you see, with the improvement of technology, the 4AT transmission has now begun to decline, and the 5AT has also begun to enter the market, but another phenomenon that cannot be ignored is that the CVT seems to be starting to resurge.

UP TO LAST YEAR, HE HAD SEEN A JDPOWER STATISTICAL REPORT, WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT THE SHARE OF CVT TRANSMISSIONS IN THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION MARKET HAS INCREASED FROM THE ORIGINAL SINGLE DIGITS TO ABOUT 10% LAST YEAR.

And the biggest contribution is Nissan's Jetco, it is their decades of insistence on investing in research and development, which has made their CVT transmission into the sixth generation of products, the performance of the new product, in terms of reliability, and in terms of fuel-saving performance, it is even more prominent.

Now there is also a Volkswagen dual-clutch transmission to disrupt the situation, and indeed no matter how you look at it, it seems that the market for automatic transmissions is about to change.

Indeed, his hunch was not wrong.

More than ten years later, in the global automatic transmission market with a scale of tens of billions, the 6AT transmission, the representative of hydraulic automatic transmission, has shown a decline.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a little bit of reliability and good performance, it was estimated that they would have been wiped out by dual-clutch transmissions and CVTs.

However, even so, the market share of 6AT is also the lowest market share of hydraulic automatic transmissions since the birth of hydraulic automatic transmissions, accounting for only about 30 to 40 percent of the entire automatic transmission market.

Dual-clutch and CVT automatic transmissions have accounted for more than 20 percent of the automatic transmission market share, respectively.

With the gradual improvement of technology, as well as the continuous addition and application of new materials, the performance of dual-clutch transmissions and CVT transmissions continues to improve, and their market share is in the process of increasing.

The most representative of these is the dual-clutch transmission, and Volkswagen is the first to stand up and fry cold rice.

You have to say that the Germans have a very accurate vision, and they have long seen through the problem that the hydraulic automatic transmission has limited room for improvement in the future and the cost will increase significantly.

Therefore, it began to take the lead in the development of dual-clutch transmission, which has inherent theoretical advantages over hydraulic automatic transmissions in terms of mechanical structure.

In the last century, the theory of double clutch was born, but at that time, because the electronic technology was not advanced enough, the double clutch could not become the mainstream, because there were too many problems.

But now, after the electronic control technology is very mature, this dual-clutch transmission has also ushered in the opportunity for a breakthrough.

Volkswagen was the first to grasp this selling point and was the first to step up with their dual-clutch transmission.

Although their dual-clutch transmission also quickly revealed considerable problems, they persevered in this direction and did not back down.

Later, the Americans also joined in, and later the Japanese began to develop dual-clutch transmissions, and dual-clutch transmissions became the most talked about and most applied transmissions on the market for a while.

In the end, after many improvements, the original problems of this transmission are constantly decreasing, and the biggest contribution is made by Ford in the United States.

In the past, Volkswagen made a dual-clutch transmission, which put the electronic control unit inside the gearbox housing, but they ignored the situation that once the car entered the congested road, when the car needed to change gears frequently, the gearbox housing would be steadily raised, which would affect the touch sensitivity of the electronic control unit, resulting in the phenomenon of gearbox strike.

This problem has been bothering Volkswagen for many years, but Ford's engineers have taken a different approach, and their choice is to integrate the electronic control unit directly into the outside of the transmission housing, thus greatly avoiding the problems that Volkswagen encountered.

And these are the experiences of Li Yifan's foresight. (To be continued......)