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However, this is just the first step in a long journey of thousands of miles. If we want to truly bring this 4at from the drawings into reality, there are still very practical problems that need to be overcome.

You must know that even ten years after consulting developed, such 4at or even 6at, 8at, and 10at drawings can be found everywhere on the Internet, and even various parameters can be found, even the manufacturing process.

Can be found.

But even under such conditions, domestic independent brand automobile manufacturers are still unable to produce purely domestic 4at hydraulic transmissions.

It was not until 2008 that Li Ji's boss Shu Fu took great courage and took advantage of the financial crisis to acquire the old Australian transmission manufacturer Dsi, which solved the problem of domestic hydraulic transmissions.

However, the result of this is that Liji Group has spent a considerable price for this dsi, and the second point is that although it claims to have acquired dsi, the key core parts still have to be produced in Australia.

This has led to problems with the production capacity of domestically produced transmissions. Although they claim to have mastered the technology, it is actually very difficult to produce. If the production capacity cannot be increased, the company will lose many potential customers, especially at the time of 6at

The era when hydraulic transmissions were prevalent.

As we all know, the principle of a hydraulic transmission is to move the engine to drive the pump impeller, and then the pump impeller rotates in the gearbox, driving the hydraulic oil inside, and then the hydraulic oil drives the turbine, thereby driving the planetary gear through the rotation of the turbine.

, so that the car can run.

Although the principle is very simple, the internal oil circuit design of this hydraulic transmission is very complex and critical. In the next ten years or so, drawings of such hydraulic transmissions can be found everywhere on the Internet.

But the key problem is that once you have the drawings, you can't produce them. After all, they are patent protected, so you can only redesign the oil circuit.

In the field of electronically controlled hydraulic design, this happens to be a shortcoming of our country's technology.

And the most important thing is that the material of such oil pipes is very special and we can't make it. Even if we can make it, there is still a very critical problem is processing.

Especially in terms of finishing, our country's technological level has never been perfect, so even if we can process such oil pipes, there will be many problems in use, and the key is that the service life will not reach international standards.

I wonder if there are any consumers willing to pay for a transmission with frequent failures like this?

Now the drawing of the 4at hydraulic transmission that Jin Xiaoqiang has taken out is already the most mature one that has been changed several times after ten years. You must know that some of the most popular models bought by Japan in China in later generations, such as crv, rav4, etc.,

They all still use 4at transmissions for no other reason than low cost and easier maintenance.

Therefore, as long as this 4at transmission can be made now, it will break the transmission monopoly of foreign automobile companies on domestic automobile companies.

You must know that this kind of monopoly lasted for decades.

The transmission area has also brought huge profits to those foreign manufacturers. If Jin Xiaoqiang remembers the data correctly, it should be in 2005, when China's automobile industry was developing rapidly, that a large number of cars began to be imported from abroad.

Automatic transmission.

I remember that at that time, Jin Xiaoqiang was still doing research at a southern car company, and he still remembered a lot of the data at that time.

He remembered clearly that it was introduced in the company's internal journal at that time that in 2005 and 2006, the cost of automatic transmissions imported into my country from abroad was US$1.2 billion and US$2 billion respectively.

In 2007, there was a huge jump, with a direct cost of 3.28 billion U.S. dollars. In 2009, the annual expenditure on imported transmissions was 5.556 billion U.S. dollars, and in 2010 alone, it was

In the first half of the year, automatic hydraulic transmission parts imported from abroad amounted to US$3.666 billion...

At present, domestic self-owned brand cars have just begun to take off, and the concept of private cars has just emerged, so consumers who use manual transmissions will still occupy the mainstream, reaching 90%.

However, according to an Automobile Industry Association report just before Jin Xiaoqiang's rebirth, it is expected that by 2015, Chinese cars using automatic transmissions will account for 50% of the market.

By 2020, this ratio will increase to 70% to 80%.

After all, allowing consumers to drive vehicles more conveniently and simply will become the mainstream trend in the development of the automobile industry in the future.

So now we are starting to develop transmissions. In fact, in Jin Xiaoqiang’s view, we are only getting involved in an emerging field. This industry can be called a sunrise industry.

So during this period of time, he let go of the engine data research and let Liu Xiaoliang and Ding Weizhong do it, while he stayed in the room and concentrated on drawing the transmission blueprints.

However, he can't make a fat man in one breath, so Jin Xiaoqiang is not so anxious. After all, they don't even have the equipment to produce this hydraulic transmission, so even if they draw the drawings, they can't produce it.

Although two masters, Ding Weizhong and Yang Dingwei, have been experts in transmission production for most of their lives, they have studied manual transmissions. There is a big difference between automatic transmissions and manual transmissions.

So at present, their experience can only be used in processing, but Jin Xiaoqiang has to rely on him to complete the specific layout of the hydraulic oil circuit.

During this period, the matching work between the engines and the two manual transmissions designed by Jin Xiaoqiang was progressing very smoothly.

However, due to manpower constraints, the progress of the entire project is still a bit slow.

Although Jin Xiaoqiang was also worried, he had no good solution. After all, this was the SARS period. Even if he wanted to set up a company and recruit people, people outside were panicked. Who would be willing to come to work at his place at this time?

And the most important thing is that the funds he currently has on hand are not very sufficient. Three hundred million yuan seems to be a lot, but Jin Xiaoqiang knows very well that this amount of money can even build a plate rolling workshop for an automobile factory.

, it’s probably a bit laborious, let alone paying wages to thousands of workers.

So now he is the person who hopes that SARS will end as soon as possible. As soon as SARS ends, he will go to Hong Kong immediately. To be honest, he has been paying attention to international financial trends in recent times, especially foreign exchange.

aspect.

The second Iraq War has not yet ended, and the U.S. dollar is still extremely weak in the foreign exchange market. Gold futures and oil futures have reached sky-high prices faster than hot money in the world that is in desperate need of safe havens.

And some other international hot money has begun to choose some relatively safe countries to start, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand and other relatively safe countries.

Since the beginning of the war, the currencies of these countries have been rising against the US dollar. Although they have not yet reached the highest level in history, they have already appreciated a lot compared to before the war began.

Among them, the most obvious appreciation is the New Zealand dollar and the Canadian dollar. The currencies of these two countries have been very strong against the US dollar in recent times.

It is now mid-to-late May, and the war in Iraq is still in full swing, but the SARS epidemic in China is also in full swing.

In Jin Xiaoqiang's gear factory, Ding Weizhong, Yang Dingwei, and Liu Xiaoliang are all happy every day. Although these people have stopped working and are on vacation, they come to the factory on time every day to report.

If not for anything else, just because the factory has recently successfully developed these engines and transmissions.

Not long ago, Ding Weizhong, through his classmates, got the TCU from Bosch in place, and now the two manual transmissions have been completely assembled.

And it has already been combined with the engine to match the data. If this matching is successful, then these powertrains will at least allow Jin Xiaoqiang to not have to worry about his car company in the next five years.

I am troubled by the powertrain.

But during this time, he was worried about another thing, and that was Liu Mei.

During this period, this girl came to the factory to report every day. Although she never asked her to come and help, she came here on time every day to report.

Moreover, he did some odd jobs every day. Jin Xiaoqiang really didn't know why this girl was doing it, but he could also see that this girl looked worried every day and didn't know what she was thinking.

Seeing her like this, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't help but feel worried for her. He wanted to ask Liu Mei several times what was wrong, but every time the words came to his lips and he didn't know how to speak.

However, it was not an option to let Liu Mei continue like this. Jin Xiaoqiang decided that today, he would ask Liu Mei what was going on?

Are there any problems that are difficult to solve?

After arriving at the factory this morning, Jin Xiaoqiang went to the place behind the factory that he named the powertrain R&D laboratory as usual, and then went back to the office to wait for Liu Mei's arrival.

Just after nine o'clock in the morning, Liu Mei arrived at the factory, first took a look at his office, and then started to take out the mop, which then started to help him clean the office.

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