Nowadays, the competition between car companies has been in a white-hot state. Want to win an opportunity in the fierce competition, the price is the most competitive, of course, the product can not be too bad. What car companies are doing now is to minimize the cost of building a car, as small as a screw. As long as it can be saved, the manufacturer will never add you. For car companies that sell hundreds of thousands of millions at a time, every saving is a huge return.
Then, the above question is easier to understand. If the self-owned brand cars are purchased in a large area and the cost of making cars remains high, how competitive is the price? In the long run, the stronger the self-sufficiency of manufacturers, the more competitive they will be. Toyota, for example, is quite powerful. Toyota has its own gearbox supplier Aisin and various spare parts supplier Denso, which makes Toyota the most profitable automobile company in the world.
For our domestic cars, the profit is actually not high. Let's just say that Great Wall Motor is familiar to everyone. Great Wall Motor's bicycle profit is less than 10,000 yuan, which means that when Great Wall sells a car, it will eventually earn seven or eight thousand yuan. If Great Wall Motor uses Aisin gearbox again, the profit will be lower, and the car companies without profit will not last long, especially our domestic cars.
In fact, it is not only our domestic cars that are trying to develop gearboxes and get rid of others' control. Let's look at the public. The early masses were also restricted by others and learned from them. Volkswagen has developed a dual clutch gearbox, which is still relatively successful and the product quality has improved. Thanks to the efforts of the public, the dual-clutch gearbox has little influence on it.
The research and development of self-owned brand dual-clutch gearbox can improve fuel economy. To know that the fuel consumption of domestic cars is still high, using a dual-clutch gearbox will save fuel than at. Judging from the cost of building a car, car companies can also make more profits. There is also a dual-clutch gearbox, with fewer patent barriers and easier development. Now the acceptance of dual clutch is also high. Therefore, domestic cars naturally have to engage in dual-clutch gearboxes.
Just pick a thorn, there is no other meaning ... what does "Cai" 8000 mean? Is 8000 not expensive? Now many domestic cars are also using Aisin 6at, and some bare cars are less than100000. Get rid of those messy things, and the cost of such a car may be controlled at 30 thousand to 40 thousand. A car costs 30 thousand to 40 thousand, and the gearbox costs 8 thousand? If I were a car company, I would definitely make up my mind to develop it.
The gearbox is definitely not that expensive. Even if it is 6at, Aisin will be divided into three grades. The material is different, the adjustment is different, the performance is different, and the price that Aisin wants is definitely different. The platform is in a vertical position. Horizontal, the maximum torque is from 200 to 300 to 500 Nm. If you are dissatisfied, you can customize it, so the price must be high or low.
At gearbox has many parts and complex structure, but the cost of gearbox is not only the cost of parts, but also the cost of research and development. Aisin sells so many sets of 6at every year, and the R&D cost is shared equally, so the overall cost is not high. So the low-end Aisin 6at is not more expensive than its own research and development. At least in the eyes of the public, it is cheaper to buy Aisin 6at than its own wet dual clutch (of course, it is not necessarily bad to be cheap).
As for why you want to develop it yourself, you still have a say. Why does everyone engage in independent property rights? Because I'm in charge. Independent research and development actually costs more, but it is good in the long run. For example, Huawei and Lenovo, Lenovo is this idea, I buy this kind of cheap, why do it myself. Therefore, Huawei was not as good as Lenovo at the beginning, but now, Lenovo's development is not as good as Huawei's.
In the automobile industry, the independent decision-making of core components such as gearbox and engine is particularly important. First, if I have any special needs, I can do it myself without looking at other people's colors. The second aspect is that it will not get stuck in the neck. Self-owned brands are not stuck in the neck once or twice. Even the public has been played. If we don't have our own technology, others will engage in your products when they see that your sales are high. We have suffered a lot in this field of science and technology.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.