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The reason why Li Yifan didn't leave in a hurry was because he had been waiting for news from Zhou Yuanchao.

Since taking over Chenhua Automobile last time, it happened to be Li Annie to arrange for this Zhou Yuanchao to take a look, after seeing the situation of Chenhua Automobile and the conditions opened by Li Yifan, Zhou Yuanchao didn't think too much, and quickly gave his answer.

He was willing to work for Chenhua Automobile, and after that, he returned to Australia.

After all, although he is the leader of DSI's R&D department, if he wants to leave the company and take some of the staff with him, he still needs a lot of preparatory work.

However, I have to say that this week, Yuan Chao's usual interpersonal relationships are handled very well, and he quickly recruited a team from DSI and defected from DSI together.

In fact, it can't be said to be a defection, it can only be said to be a collective resignation.

After all, the situation of DSI is not very good now, since the previous time Li Yifan's attempt to buy this company failed, this company was finally taken over by an Australian company.

However, the company's prospects are not optimistic, this company used to make parts for the Australian branch of Ford Company, and the Australian branch of Chrysler Company, and it is also a company that mainly produces transmissions.

However, Australia's market share has not been very large, with a population of just over 20 million, and although it is among the developed countries, their automobile manufacturing industry is not developed.

The best-selling model in Australia is the Holden brand. It used to be a pure Australian business. However, it was later promoted by GM's globalization strategy. The Holden company then became a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors.

The production is some GM's OEM products, but even so, because it is related to the local Australian company, it is also very popular with the local Australian people.

Ford and Chrysler, on the other hand, were less lucky, and they both set up factories in Australia to assemble and produce their cars.

However, the products produced by Ford and Chrysler plus GM are made entirely according to their own preferences, that is to say, according to the habits of Americans. All of them belong to large displacement products.

Australians may like this kind of product at the beginning, but after a long time, not many people can accept it.

Australia is not the United States, it is rich in oil, and it also dominates the Middle East, the world's most prolific region, so the middle class in the United States does not have to worry too much about fuel costs, but the Australian people cannot.

Australia is a country rich in mineral resources, and this country has many of the world's most scarce mineral resources. But there is one thing, but it has always been their heart disease. That's oil.

Australia is very short of oil, although offshore, they also have some offshore oil wells, but the production has not been high, most of their crude oil needs to be imported for supply.

So this is the main reason why their people can't enjoy the same oil prices as in the United States, so the large displacement models, that is, those middle class can enjoy.

But when the economic environment is bad, even the middle class may not be able to absorb the high oil prices.

In the past few years, oil prices around the world have been in a stage of slow rise, although it means boiling frogs in warm water, but many people have begun to endure such oil price increases.

Japanese cars in Australia began to gradually become popular, and since the 90s of the last century, Japanese brand cars have become more and more common on the streets of Australia.

After entering the new millennium, Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan relied on the characteristics of reliable quality, low price, and low maintenance costs to defeat the American auto alliance formed by GM, Ford, and Chrysler.

In Australia, the most popular model is undoubtedly the Japanese brand, and the three American car companies, the best now is Holden, as for Ford and Chrysler, it is gradually declining.

Their sales are deteriorating, and last year they hit a record low.

In fact, because of the collapse of Ford and Chrysler, DSI has fallen into a state of continuous losses.

And their technology is not enough to make them a leader in the transmission industry.

If you want to go overseas to develop the market, this is quite a difficult thing.

Europe is a developed region with an old automobile industry, and many automobile companies have their own transmission supporting companies.

And to Asia, it is even more impossible, now Australia's cars, are beaten by Japanese and Korean cars, what can you do to Asia?

And the United States doesn't even think about it, although it is the largest car market in the world, but the Americans can build cars themselves, and where are the Japanese to stir up.

So no matter how you look at it, you can't see the way out of DSI, which makes many people who work at DSI feel a burst of despair.

Coupled with the company's unenterprising attitude and lack of investment in new development projects, many employees in the R&D department have been very dissatisfied.

At this time, as soon as Zhou Yuanchao stood up and said this, many people were immediately moved.

To change the platform, although it is an automobile manufacturing company in Huaguo, although everyone has never heard of the fame of this company, but Huaguo is the world's factory, where there are many brands that everyone has not heard of, which is not unusual.

And the boss of the family promised that he would give everyone the same treatment, and he did not have to go to China to work, and he could also increase investment in research and development.

In this way, what else can everyone not be satisfied with?

So after Zhou Yuanchao began to hook up, soon more than 30 employees of the R&D department quietly reached a consensus with him.

And Zhou Yuanchao soon began to look for a new suitable studio in Australia, Li Yifan's money was in place quickly, and Li Annie's manpower was in Australia to cooperate with them, so they soon found a new venue and quickly entered the working state.

The first task given to them by Li Yifan was to change DSI's 6-speed automatic transmission.

DSI is indeed one of the few manufacturers in the world that can produce 6-speed automatic transmissions, and now the only manufacturers in the world that can produce such high-end transmissions are Aisin Seiko of Japan, ZF of Germany, and transmission production units of GM and Ford.

Among them, Germany's ZF and Japan's Aisin Seiko are leading the way, but their six-speed automatic transmissions are now mainly installed in more high-end models.

For example, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Lexus and other models, the mainstream mid-level cars on the market are still using four-speed automatic transmissions and five-speed automatic transmissions.

A four-speed automatic transmission is used for the more normal ones, and a five-speed automatic transmission is used for the more advanced ones, and this will continue for a few more years.

As for the automatic transmission production units of GM and Ford, their products can only be said to be at the stage where they can be manufactured, and as for the performance and quality of the products, those who are familiar with American cars can only hehe.

However, Li Yifan knows that as Volkswagen advertises the success of their DSG transmission, it will soon be devolved into the market for a six-speed automatic transmission.

At that time, Aisin and ZF would turn around and develop an eight-speed automatic transmission, and the six-speed automatic transmission was already an ordinary product on the market.

In the next few years, if he wants to see the bayonets of the market and the Volkswagen, as well as Japanese manufacturers and American manufacturers, then in the field of automatic transmissions, he must prepare early.

However, automatic transmissions have always been a short board in the domestic automotive industry, even after more than ten years, there are few companies that have the ability to develop and manufacture automatic transmissions, and there are few in the field of private autonomy.

So he had to plan ahead, and DSI's six-speed automatic transmission was one of the first products he set his sights on.

Although DSI is now able to produce six-speed automatic transmissions, their product is indeed an out-and-out rural non-mainstream product, because this transmission can only be applied to rear-wheel drive models, not to the current mainstream front-wheel drive models.

What Li Yifan asked these engineers to do was to change this transmission to a transmission suitable for front-wheel drive vehicles in the shortest possible time.

As for the issue of patents, hehe, when two years later, this DSI is closed, who cares about the patent issue of your transmission?

In addition, he asked these Australians to lead the development because he did not plan to hold the unit for a long time.

After all, these people are Australians, and the arrogant attributes of Australians make him very disliked, as a boss, he definitely doesn't like those disobedient and ask for a salary increase twice in three days.

So his idea was that after these people developed a six-speed automatic transmission adapted to the front wheels, he would cut back on the investment in this unit.

And to set up a real R&D unit in China, after all, only a unit that is really in the palm of your hand is a trustworthy unit.

And this unit set up in Australia is a place to play an outpost and help him shoot and train designers.

Zhou Yuanchao has been flying in Australia and China during this time, he is the head of this transmission department, on the one hand, he has to supervise and participate in the improvement of the six-speed automatic transmission, on the other hand, he is also responsible for the construction of the power transmission department of the domestic Chenhua Automobile Company.

This time, he went to Australia and brought more than 20 newly recruited engineers to the company, in order to let these people be familiar with the design ideas of those Australians, participate in the design work, and learn a little experience even if they are just doing chores. (To be continued......)