Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

In the southeast, the city of the Three Wus, 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 small bridges and flowing waters used to be his dream home.

When they arrived in Hangzhou, SMIC had an unexpected accident that Zhang Yiwen needed to deal with. Qu Li drove to Ari and surprised them.

"This is a self-driving tour passing through Hangzhou." Qu Li quibbled... explained.

Fortunately, Qu Li's face is not unfamiliar to Ari, how many people hate him is unknown, anyway, we are competitors.

Ari Taobao’s counterfeit products are well-known all over the world, but because Jumei implements the positive parallel goods strategy, it directly hits the US market, letting netizens around the world know that the “fake products” problem is a corporate problem, not a national problem, so there is no future, crooked Guobaba doesn't care about Chinese companies and consumers, but only cares about how to discredit you...

Ma Yun wasn't there, so he didn't know where he went on a trip. Qu Li stayed in Ari for a long time, bragging, chatting and eating with a few people, and went to Geely Auto to meet Li Shufu the next day.

Geely has a gearbox factory in Xingsha, which was established after they acquired the Australian DSI company. It has a 6AT gearbox, which is not bad.

There are three types of gearboxes: AT with complex technology and the highest threshold, stable performance and high fuel consumption, CVT with simple technology, low fuel consumption, weak power, poor reliability and poor reliability, and dual-clutch DCT. Because of patent issues, the only options in China are CVT and DCT. Before Geely acquired DSI, the company lost a lot of employees and its research and development capabilities declined.

Qiancheng Motors currently uses imported AT gearboxes, which are cheaper in Kimchi, and the products of Dongying Aisin and Germany's ZF are more powerful. However, as a small company, it must have self-knowledge, and Qiancheng Motor basically has little say.

Qu Li has never wanted to spend money on gearboxes, and has been criticized for this. After all, no one knows when electric vehicles will replace fuel vehicles, and they now rely on fuel vehicles to make money.

If he doesn’t want to pay for self-research, he should find someone else. Geely, Chery, and JAC are all doing self-research, BYD is doing reverse engineering, and Great Wall Motor is purchasing.

Geely's gearbox factory has opened in Xingsha, so when we want to cooperate, we first think of Geely. Qiancheng Motors has considered using Geely DSI's 6AT gearbox, but because of brand influence and other reasons, it has used foreign products. You don’t need Qiancheng, but you can use Cheetah. We have a basis for cooperation.

"Can we find more car companies to cooperate in the development of DCT gearboxes?" Qu Li asked Li Shufu, a Jiangsu-Zhejiang entrepreneur who looked a bit like a smiling tiger.

"Of course!" Li Shufu said with a smile

Domestic companies generally lack cooperation. The R \u0026 D cycle of gearboxes is as long as 7 years. Cooperation is the best solution. But at the beginning, everyone had no strength and was reluctant to pay. The brand has never cooperated on the three major parts of engine, gearbox and chassis.

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

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

The "coupe" that Qiancheng is developing needs a DCT gearbox, Qu Li wants to reduce costs through a cooperative development model, and Geely wants to...

The first batch of Qiancheng Geometry was sold in less than 10 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Xingsha, all of which are directly-operated stores. If it is said that no one buys such a well-known electric car for "research", Qu Li doesn't believe it, so he doesn't know Li Shufu believed it or not.

Hearing him ask about the investment and technical route of Qiancheng's electric vehicle direction, Qu Li smiled "meaningfully" and didn't point out.

The two had a good time getting to know each other, but in the end nothing was settled, and 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 it is best at "reverse engineering". Their gearbox imitates Volkswagen. There is no shame in imitating and borrowing from others. Everyone has come here. The key is to have your own thoughts and a direction to move forward. I won't comment on BYD's fuel vehicles, the market knows.

What about Chery, another company known for its technology? They spent 7 years developing their own CVT gearbox, and later sold it to Wan Liyang, and then "self-developed" 8AT and DCT. If it is a big factory, such "manufacturing" is certainly possible, but Chery is not even listed. Research and development for the sake of research and development, no direction, chaotic product lines, no emphasis on quality control, over-marketing, the market taught him to be a man...

What about the Great Wall? Their development route is relatively stable, and they are also "self-developed". Haval has become the king of domestic SUVs, and its technical integration capabilities are definitely not bad. But there is really no need for cooperation. It is better to directly find their gearbox technology provider Fangertrac, a German gearbox company, for joint development.

"Don't cooperate with Geely?" Qiancheng Motors Lu Tao was a little puzzled when he received a call from Qu Li. It was so easy to make a decision?

"Forget it, it's better to ask for help than to ask for yourself. First purchase Getrag, 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 transmission can take into account fuel consumption and sports performance. It is suitable for the development direction of future fuel vehicles. Chery Getrag's 7-speed wet dual-clutch has a service life of more than 100,000 kilometers, and the 7-speed DCT developed by Great Wall on this basis can reach 300,000 kilometers without major repairs.

Getrag built a factory in Jiangxi in 2007, and this year in Wuhan. Before that, it cooperated with Volkswagen and Ford to develop DCT gearboxes. It was not very conservative in the diffusion of technology, so independent brands such as Great Wall and Chery have "self-developed" DCTs. .

Chery’s insistence on self-research is definitely not wrong, but the self-developed technology is not for “from zero to something”, but to compete with the world’s top companies and gain an advantage. No one believes that Chery can do it, maybe including themselves .

But BYD has done it. Most people in China recognize that BYD electric vehicles have a leading edge in the world. This is more reliable than any advertisements. In the foreseeable future, BYD will encounter many problems in "quality control and quality", but as long as the electric vehicle industry does not jump, they will not become "front wave".

Qu Li's Qiancheng Motors' two SUVs have a lot of technology from Mitsubishi, but he also dislikes that Mitsubishi Motors has too little room for imagination, so on the basis of mastering the old Ford engine, he cooperated with FEV of Germany to ensure that the engine will not lag behind in the international market. Now cooperating with Getrag to ensure that DCT gearboxes are globally competitive.

"The three major parts of fuel vehicles, we only have the chassis as a shortcoming." Qu Li hung up the phone with Lu Tao, and sighed, the chassis and active suspension really can't be opened, and there is no shortcut.

On Qu Li's way to Shanghai, after Saab went bankrupt, the asset custodian quickly started the auction, and Xia Mingfei of Qiancheng Automobile appeared at the venue.