The pain of Chinese auto transmission

Recently, the automobile zero detection department vice minister Guo Pengkun told reporters Chinese industry news, the automatic transmission is the biggest pain point China core technology in the automotive industry, over the years are difficult to break. At present, automatic models has sold more than half of the independent automatic transmission matching amount was less than 5% years.
Automatic transmission is one of the core technology of automobile. Automatic transmission vehicle autonomous enterprise of our country is rather expensive to purchase foreign brands, is not willing to give self a chance of matching parts enterprises. Why is this?
The pain of innovation
Guo Pengkun said that the independent transmission of pain, is pain, is pain, the pain is also the brand, industry of pain, is pain of innovation.
Ganzhou gear factory is Jiangling Group acquisition, joint venture with the German Getrag plant in the Ganzhou development, the region and two in Yudu, the Central Plains Ganzhou gear factory technology and sales team to Germany after the independent management mode, the establishment of Ganzhou City Jingwei Beijing Great Automotive Components Company Limited, mainly to the South Korean modern production KD, brilliance auto basic MT gearbox, the later research of AMT transmission for about 7 years, because the feedback can not enter the vehicle factory test equipment, operation and technology, and finally had to die.
By the independent research and development of 6 speed DCT (double clutch transmission), was regarded as the domestic enterprises in the automatic transmission of the latest achievements in the field and substantive breakthrough, but now, after entering the market, the JAC DCT models are rarely seen, because supply is DCT Co., S5 DCT models first period only sales in some areas. Although the independent research and development of DCT has been put on the market, but its performance is still not adequate for inspection. Compared with JAC, R & D and industrialization of SAIC DCT and BYD DCT go faster, but about supporting the amount of DCT at present, the two companies are unwilling to disclose.
Supporting the bottleneck to
At present, many enterprises in China have begun to research on the new technology of automobile efforts in intelligent driving car, Internet, new energy vehicles and other related fields has made some breakthrough. But in terms of automatic transmission field, domestic car prices have little results.
Guo Pengkun believes that the "supporting problem" is the key problem of restricting China's independent development of automatic transmission.
At present, only the vertical integration of the industry to promote the market-oriented mode of automatic transmission, which is supporting the opportunity.
In addition, even if the enterprises have already launched the independent research and development of automatic transmission, but want to get matching opportunity in the market is very difficult.
The independent automatic transmission price than foreign low, but the cost is much higher. Foreign car companies are more mature and more advanced technology, the premium space is also great, the price squeeze product easily.
At the same time, the automobile enterprise research and development of automatic transmission has certain advantages, matching the number to be stable, but like the transmission of an independent enterprise to obtain supporting opportunity is very difficult. For parts enterprises, the product cannot be said to be one hundred percent mature, but failed to progress must rely on the accumulation, or a product development, verification of no market can not determine the true level.
Such a situation for independent development of automatic transmission into a vicious spiral. Not supporting the opportunity will not be able to so that the products have been fully verified, there is no lack of validation to improve products and technology basis. The end result is that the gap between the China automatic transmission with foreign advanced level is more and more big.
Not only that, the automatic transmission cost and scale is closely related to foreign enterprises are supporting the minimum size to reach 300 thousand units per year, the products of domestic enterprises to be competitive at least to reach 100 thousand units per year. Otherwise, the automatic transmission of single cost can not be reduced, will cause the matching and use of high cost, loss of market competitiveness. If the matching problem cannot be solved, the industrialization process of automatic transmission in our country will be hindered.
The automatic transmission industry development is a long-term, large capital investment, product development cycle for at least 5 years, billions of dollars of investment in research and development. If has no income, some enterprises are difficult to resolve to persevere in automatic transmission field. So, the patient will also be tested.
Standard lag influence product development
As the key components in the automobile, independent automatic transmission delays breakthrough, has restricted China automobile industry from large to strong pace.
Because of technology and products by foreign monopoly enterprises, and the key components of domestic and very shortage, lead to automatic transmission technology now the domestic car companies launched backward, inefficient, especially CVT, AT, equivalent to almost 30 years ago, the level of foreign products.
Independent automatic transmission industry is a breakthrough product stage, existing products are nearly ten years of development, the product series is single, only to solve the product has no problem, the product technology can only meet the national energy saving target at the present stage, the subsequent technology upgrades and platform development limited. In addition, the accuracy of the automatic transmission control software calibration and there is not a small gap abroad, cannot give full play to the mechanical transmission performance. The overall situation is the automatic transmission of the domestic production technology level compared with foreign countries there are 5~10 years gap.
Such a big gap between Chinese and foreign enterprises, foreign enterprises to get gold opportunity in China and foreign space, automatic transmission is very high in China such as pricing, a ZF 8AT in our market price of 30 thousand yuan, while the price of this transmission is only $1500 in foreign countries