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Zhang Qihang smiled and asked Mr. Zhu: "Mr. Zhu, what do you think of new energy vehicles?"

Mr. Zhu thought for a while and said: "First of all, cars will definitely gradually develop from pure fuel to hybrid and pure electric. This is also the best solution that our country can give to the problems facing the energy field."

"Ah."

Zhang Qihang nodded. He knew that Mr. Zhu was right. Huaxia is a major oil importer in the world today, but Huaxia does not have overseas military bases, which is fine in peacetime, but if a war breaks out... let alone a war. If there is a conflict between China and the United States in the commercial field, the United States can use its military bases all over the world to pinch Huaxia's neck, and this kind of thing has happened not once or twice.

In this case, what should Huaxia do?
In fact, as early as the early 90s, Mr. Qian came up with a solution: vigorously develop new energy vehicles represented by pure electric vehicles. Vehicles are driven by petroleum fuels, and they are also large consumers. However, if a considerable proportion of vehicles in China are powered by electricity, China can reduce the proportion of oil imported from overseas every year, which will not only greatly reduce foreign exchange expenses, but also ensure the security of energy supply.

Therefore, vigorously developing new energy vehicles represented by pure electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles is a strategic decision of China to ensure the country's energy supply. Compared with this, the so-called "curve overtaking" is actually still behind.

As the general manager of Chang'an Automobile, Mr. Zhu naturally understands the strategic significance of the country's vigorous development of new energy vehicles, but then he said: "But the problem is that the cost of this system is too high. We at Chang'an Automobile have actually analyzed several mainstream hybrid vehicles in the current market and even in the world, including your group's extended-range hybrid system..."

Speaking of this, Mr. Zhu smacked his lips and said: "How should I put it, I think that no matter what kind of new energy vehicle it is, there is still a long way to go. The most important thing is not to rush."

In other words, he is not very optimistic about the future of new energy vehicles. In other words, he thinks that new energy vehicles will gradually develop in the next 30 years or even longer. In a short period of time, new energy vehicles are unlikely to become mainstream consumers in the passenger car market.

Zhang Qihang understands Mr. Zhu's point of view very well. It can even be said that among the big brothers, Mr. Zhu's views are already very radical. After all, he still embraces the attitude of welcome and acceptance, unlike some big brothers who directly reject and resist new energy vehicles. The boss of the eldest brother's family also shouted, "An automobile company with an annual output of less than 100 million vehicles should not talk about independent research and development!"

Standing today, who would have thought that in less than 15 years, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in the Chinese market has reached 30%, let alone that China's auto industry has become the world's second largest exporter of passenger cars, and has threatened Xiaotian's position as the "world's largest exporter of passenger cars" at an extremely fast speed?
"You are right. After all, new energy vehicles have just started, and the various industries and supporting facilities are immature. There is indeed a long way to go. There is no rush for all of this," Zhang Qihang first affirmed Mr. Zhu's words, and then said: "But rushing means doing nothing...Mr. Zhu, SAIC-GM is already preparing to introduce a hybrid version of the LaCrosse to China. You know about this, right?"

"Well, I know," Mr. Zhu nodded. "Didn't Wagner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, revealed to the outside world that he would apply his own hybrid system to the LaCrosse produced by SAIC-GM. The whole car will probably be launched next year..."

Speaking of this, Mr. Zhu suddenly remembered something, and said with great interest: "Mr. Zhang, how much do you know about GM's hybrid system? Compared with your hybrid system, what do you think of their GM's hybrid system?"

Zhang Qihang smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, I really know the situation of SAIC-GM's hybrid system. This hybrid system is composed of a drive motor with a maximum power of 6 kilowatts and a maximum torque of 55 Nm and a set of nickel-metal hydride energy storage batteries. You can tell from the power of this motor. The motor of this hybrid system cannot be directly used to drive the vehicle, but it can realize kinetic energy recovery, assist when the vehicle starts and accelerates, start and stop the engine, and ensure the operation of the air conditioning and cooling function when the engine starts and stops. It can only be regarded as a mild hybrid.

According to the test results of SAIC, with the blessing of this hybrid system, the car’s power improvement effect is very significant when starting and accelerating, and it can be clearly felt that the car is much easier. However, compared with this, the most important thing is the fuel saving effect. It is said that with the blessing of this hybrid system, it can roughly save 15% to 20% of fuel depending on the road conditions. "

Mr. Zhu is not at all surprised that Zhang Qihang has such a detailed understanding of the performance and parameters of SAIC-GM's hybrid system. Who would let people have so many brothers and sisters in SAIC? On the contrary, he was very surprised that this system can save 15% to 20% of fuel: "Can it save fuel by 15% to 20%? Is it so powerful?"

"It's not bad," Zhang Qihang said he didn't care about this number: "But it is still effective in terms of fuel saving, although the effect is not very obvious."

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Mr. Zhu was somewhat speechless: You guys just rely on your own skills to look down on others?
But speechless, Mr. Zhu also has to admit that the fuel-saving effect of Huateng Group's extended-range hybrid system is really good, that is, the performance of the current vehicle power battery can't keep up.

After pondering for a while, Mr. Zhu asked Zhang Qihang: "So, our group is going to focus on the development of hybrid technology next?"

"What you said just now makes sense. There is no rush for new energy," Zhang Qihang said, "But I think that although there is no rush, we must invest in what should be invested. If we do nothing here, the result will be the current situation of fuel vehicles. All core technologies and patents are in the hands of others, and we will still be stuck."

"..."

Mr. Zhu heard the words and stopped talking.

He had to admit that what Zhang Qihang said was right. Many of his previous ideas and opinions were indeed a bit narrow. The development of new energy was really urgent, and many conditions were indeed immature, but Zhang Qihang was right. Since we have suffered the loss of lack of technology and patents in the field of fuel vehicles before, now that we are on the route of new energy, is it possible that we have to suffer again?
This kind of thing, once is enough.

After a while, he nodded slowly: "That is indeed the truth...so it is for this reason that you don't pay so much attention to the dual-clutch gearbox?"

Zhu always knew that Huateng Group didn't think much about dual-clutch gearboxes, but before that, he always thought that it was because Huateng Group had a parallel-shaft gearbox. To judge others, he himself felt that if I had a parallel-shaft gearbox, there was really no need to develop a gearbox with a new technical route, but looking at it now, it seems that this is not the case.

Zhang Qihang said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, our new generation of hybrid gearbox and hybrid-specific engine are close to success. In addition, we are developing a 6-speed parallel shaft gearbox. In this way, we have a complete sequence of gearboxes. In addition to two hybrid systems, the dual-clutch gearbox is no longer optional for us. It should be more or less cumbersome."

Hearing Zhang Qihang say that the dual-clutch gearbox is a burden for the Huateng Group. For a while, many senior executives of Changan Automobile, including Mr. Zhu, had mixed feelings: When we were still racking our brains for a four-speed automatic gearbox, and secretly rejoicing that if BorgWarner and Getrag hadn’t appeared at this time, we didn’t know when we would have mastered and owned the automatic gearbox technology. Why is it so big?

On the contrary, Mr. Zhu, taking this opportunity, tentatively asked Zhang Qihang: "So...Mr. Zhang, are you against the dual-clutch gearbox?"

In Mr. Zhu's view, the emergence of dual-clutch gearboxes threatened the interests of Huateng Group. He should be very repulsive, but Zhang Qihang's answer made him stunned again...

"No, not only do I not object, but I am happy to see the success and welcome it with both hands." Facing Mr. Zhu's puzzled eyes, Zhang Qihang explained: "The reason is actually very simple. Previously, we were limited by the patent restrictions of traditional transmission system companies in Europe, America and Japan in the field of AT and CVT gearboxes. Our country's development in the field of automatic transmission has always been very difficult. Now Getrag and BorgWarner are going to come in with their dual-clutch technology. And accelerated the development of automatic transmission technology in our country.

For other companies with automatic traditional systems, because of the emergence of BorgWarner and Getrag, they have to make more concessions whether they want to or not. For example, now, if they want to purchase engines from Fengtian Aerospace Mitsubishi, they must match a certain number of 4AT gearboxes in proportion. "