In the independent category, the gearbox has always been a huge short board. From the point of view of technical conquest, the priority of engine is definitely higher than that of gearbox. In the past ten years, the core energy of independent brands has been on how to build a powerful engine.
The breakthrough of gearbox barriers is actually in these years.
At present, there are still many enterprises in the first-line independent brands that have not overcome the gearbox constraints. For example, Changan is still a strategic partner of Aisin, Geely and Chuanqi take the lead in establishing a joint venture with Aisin, and the Great Wall still chooses ZF as a high-end model.
8AT gearbox.
Independent brands have short-board bottlenecks, so it is obviously not surprising that Chery purchases gearboxes.
In fact, the gearbox has always been Chery's biggest short board, which is even much larger than other independent brands. Compared with 7DCT450 dual-clutch gearbox independently developed by Great Wall, at and dual-clutch gearbox developed by Geely,
Most of Chery's automatic gearboxes are purchased.
For example, once Shandong Shengrui, later Gertrak, recently exposed Aisin 6AT and SAIC DCT gearboxes, Chery has always lacked the right to speak independently in gearbox selection.
The gearbox is difficult to match, which has always been a common problem of independent brands.
Design is not the key to restrict the development of independent brands. In terms of rationality, any independent brand can easily get the structural diagram of Aisin and ZF, and cannot produce high standards. The key of high stability gearbox lies in detail forging and matching debugging.
In other words, not only hardware can't keep up, but also software can't keep up.
Especially AT gearbox, taking Shandong Shengrui as an example, its current AT gearbox has indeed overcome the production problems in a sense, but the biggest problem is that no strategic partner is willing to provide matching support in the downstream market. After all, it is only a gearbox manufacturer. Obviously, this company does not have enough experience in matching and debugging technology to do logical matching.
After all, a good gearbox should not only be reliable and durable, but also adapt to a variety of gearboxes, from natural inhalation to turbocharging, which requires a lot of experiments to ensure the perfection of gearbox.
The inability of the industry to provide technical support is the key to the failure of independent brands to overcome the AT gearbox problem as a whole.
As an enterprise, relying on the excellent supply chain system, the research and development of gearbox can be placed at the end of strategic planning. After all, many independent brands focus on product design.
Gearboxes can be purchased, and there is really no need to independently develop excellent technologies at your fingertips. Just like the four-wheel drive system, foreign patents are seriously blocked. It is not only difficult to make structural parts with independent intellectual property rights by bypassing the blockade, but also the cost level may not be more cost-effective than procurement.
Moreover, this kind of unreliable and unstable, whether the new technology independently developed can compete with the traditional established suppliers in stability is still unknown.
For independent brands, it is difficult to build a more reliable and stable AT gearbox without strong industrial chain support, which is also the key for all independent brands to purchase Aisin and ZF at the AT gearbox level.
Chery's purchase of Aisin gearbox is not necessarily a good thing.
In terms of rationality, Chery's brand-new engine has the characteristics of fast action and large torque, and it is at the forefront of power, but there is no excellent gearbox to adapt at present, so purchasing Aisin gearbox must be the best strategy.
Ensuring the comfort and interests of users is the key for enterprises to serve the user market. After all, Great Wall, Chang 'an, Geely, BYD and other enterprises are humbly asking foreign-funded enterprises about this issue. Although the exploration of technology knows no boundaries, it should not stop.
In my opinion, Chery's purchase of Aisin gearbox is an expedient measure for the industry. The key is that this enterprise should have the attitude and determination of self-strengthening technical standards.