Author: Banlou Yaofeng

Chapter 521 DCT Gearbox

The southeast is the most beautiful city, the three Wu cities, and Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times.

People from a small place like Quli are quite addicted to the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. The houses with small bridges and flowing water were once their dream homes.

When they arrived in Hangzhou, SMIC had another unexpected incident that needed Zhang Yiwen to deal with. Qu Li drove to Ahli and surprised them.

"I am passing through Hangzhou on a self-driving tour." Qu Li explained...

Fortunately, Qu Li's face is not unfamiliar to Ahli. It's unknown how many people hate him. Anyway, we are all competitors.

The problem of counterfeit goods on Ali and Taobao is well-known around the world. However, because Jumei implements the legitimate counterfeiting strategy and directly enters the US market, netizens around the world know that the problem of "fake goods" is a corporate problem, not a national problem. Therefore, there is no such thing as a crooked problem. Guo Daba doesn’t care about Chinese companies and consumers, he only cares about how to discredit you...

Ma Yun was away and went traveling somewhere. Qu Li stayed in Ahli for half a day, bragging, chatting and eating with a few people. The next day he went to Geely Automobile to meet Li Shufu.

Geely has a gearbox factory in Xingsha, which was established after they acquired the Australian DSI company. It has a 6AT gearbox, which is pretty good.

There are three types of gearboxes: AT, which has the highest threshold for technical complexity, stable performance and high fuel consumption, CVT, which has simple technology, low fuel consumption, low power, weak power and poor reliability, and dual-clutch DCT. Due to patent issues, domestically only CVT and DCT can be chosen, and before Geely acquired DSI , this company has suffered serious employee turnover and its research and development capabilities have declined.

Qiancheng Motor currently uses imported AT gearboxes, which are cheaper from Kimchi China, and the products of Japan's Aisin and Germany's ZF are more powerful. However, as a small company, it must be self-aware, and Qiancheng Motor basically does not have much say.

Qu Li has always been criticized for not wanting to spend money on gearboxes. After all, no one knows when electric vehicles will replace fuel vehicles, and they now have to rely on fuel vehicles to make money.

If he doesn’t want to spend money to research on his own, then he can find someone else. Geely, Chery, including JAC Motors are all doing research on their own, BYD is doing reverse engineering, and Great Wall Motor is doing procurement.

Geely's gearbox factory is located in Xingsha, so if we want to cooperate, we first think of Geely. Qiancheng Motors considered using Geely DSI's 6AT gearbox, but due to brand influence and other reasons, we chose foreign products. Qiancheng did not use it, Cheetah It can be used, and we have the basis for cooperation.

"Can we find more car companies to cooperate in developing DCT gearboxes?" Qu Li asked Li Shufu, an entrepreneur from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who looks a bit like a smiling tiger.

"Of course!" Li Shufu said with a smile.

Domestic enterprises generally lack cooperation. The research and development cycle of gearboxes is as long as 7 years. Cooperation is the best solution. However, in the beginning, no one has the strength and is reluctant to spend money. When they are rich, they look down on domestic products. Anyway, domestic products are independent. The brand has never cooperated on the three major components of engine, gearbox and chassis.

"Geely DSI's 6AT gearbox is very suitable for Qiancheng Motor..." Li Shufu

"We need more convincing products." Qu Li didn't come to Hangzhou just to purchase his gearbox.

The "coupe" being developed by Qiancheng needs a DCT gearbox, Quli wants a cooperative development model to reduce costs, and Geely wants...

The first batch of Qianqian Geometry was sold in less than 10 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xingsha, etc., all of which were directly operated stores. To say that no one bought such a famous electric car back for "research", Qu Li didn't believe it, and he didn't know. Li Shufu believes it or not.

Listening to him asking about Qiancheng's investment and technical roadmap for electric vehicles, Qu Li smiled "meaningfully" and did not criticize.

The two had a great time getting to know each other, but in the end nothing was settled. Qu Li was somewhat disappointed when they left Hangzhou.

There are only a few companies he wants to cooperate with. BYD has adhered to the technical route for more than ten years, but what they are best at is "reverse engineering". Their gearbox imitates Volkswagen. There is no shame in imitating and borrowing, everyone has done it this way. The key is to have your own ideas and a way forward. I won't comment on BYD's fuel vehicles, the market knows.

What about Chery, another company that is famous for its technology? They spent 7 years developing their own CVT gearbox, and later sold it to Wanliyang, and then "self-developed" 8AT and DCT. If it is a big factory, of course it is "made" like this Yes, but Chery is not even on the market. Research and development for the sake of research and development, no direction, chaotic product lines, no attention to quality control, excessive marketing, and the market teaches him how to behave...

What about Great Wall? Their development route is relatively stable, and they are also "self-researched". Haval has become the king of domestic SUVs, and its technology integration capabilities are certainly not bad. But there is really no need to cooperate. It is better to directly ask Fangge to provide their transmission technology Trak, a German gearbox company, co-developed it.

"Aren't you going to cooperate with Geely?" Lu Tao of Qiancheng Automobile was a little confused when he received Qu Li's call. Did he make such a simple decision?

"Forget it, it's better to ask for others than to ask for yourself. Let's purchase Getrag first, and at the same time cooperate to develop a 6-speed wet dual-clutch..." Qu Li chose DCT in the transmission technology route, because this kind of transmission can take into account both fuel consumption and sports performance. It is suitable for the development direction of Qiancheng fuel vehicles. The service life of Chery Getrag's 7-speed wet dual-clutch exceeds 100,000 kilometers. On this basis, the 7-speed DCT developed by Great Wall can reach 300,000 kilometers without overhaul.

Getrag built a factory in Jiangxi in 2007 and a factory in Wuhan this year. It previously cooperated with Volkswagen and Ford to develop DCT gearboxes and was not very conservative about technology diffusion. Therefore, independent brands such as Great Wall and Chery later "self-developed" DCTs. .

Chery's insistence on self-research is definitely not wrong, but the self-developed technology is not to "go from scratch to something", but to compete with the world's top companies and gain an advantage. No one believes that Chery can do it, possibly including themselves. .

But BYD has done it. Most people in China recognize that BYD's electric vehicles have a leading advantage in the world. This is more reliable than any advertisement. They already have a fundamental base that is difficult to shake. In the foreseeable future, BYD will encounter many difficulties. There are few problems with "quality control", but as long as the electric vehicle industry does not boom, they will not become the "front wave".

Qu Li's Qiancheng Motors' two SUVs derived a lot of technology from Mitsubishi, but he also disliked Mitsubishi's limited imagination, so on the basis of mastering Ford's old engines, he cooperated with German FEV to ensure that the engines would not fall behind in the international market. The current cooperation with Getrag ensures that DCT transmissions are competitive on a global scale.

"Of the three major components of a fuel vehicle, we only have one shortcoming: the chassis." Qu Li hung up the phone with Lu Tao and sighed. The chassis and active suspension really cannot be operated, and there are no shortcuts.

Just as Qu Li was on his way to Shanghai, after Saab went bankrupt, the asset custodian quickly launched an auction, and Qiancheng Motors Xia Mingfei appeared at the venue.
Chapter completed!