12 car companies join forces with BorgWarner's R&D dual clutch transmission
Established Shanghai Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. in cooperation with Bosch in 1995 to produce automotive EFI systems. The efforts to develop the core components of autonomous vehicles have not stopped in the entire domestic automotive industry. From the lag in the key technology of EFI engines to the difficulties in automation. The research and development of gearboxes and the development of autonomous vehicle brands face many obstacles. However, overcoming the "difficulties" while the independent brand's dependence on foreign technology has not stopped.
A few days ago, led by the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s Huafaen Investment Company, a joint venture of 12 automakers in China, and BorgWarner (China) Investment Co., Ltd. jointly established BorgWarner Dual Clutch Drive System Co., Ltd. in Beijing, signing a contract and investing 200 million U.S. dollars. 34% and 66% of the holdings have been jointly invested, and in 2011, the key components of the dual clutch automatic transmission were produced. Bernd Matthes, president of BorgWarner Transmission Systems, stated that the joint venture will provide the core components of the dual rational transmission to the domestic auto companies after it is put into operation. The construction and technical principles of the DCT transmission have many similarities with the traditional manual transmission and can be supported by domestic companies. The production technology and process of manual transmission can realize the production of dual-clutch gearbox at a lower cost. "Borg Warner's production of dual-clutch transmission core components will help solve the problems of domestic automatic gearbox R&D and production," said Zhang Renqi, president of the company. However, for such a joint venture, some industry experts are not optimistic.
â— Lack of speech rights is difficult to obtain new technologies
In the face of BorgWarner's 66% holdings, whether the industry's joint venture company, which is jointly sponsored by the China-U.S. joint venture, can bring about DCT technology for domestic auto companies has raised questions. An industry employee stated that BorgWarner had the absolute right to speak for the joint venture company with 66% of the shares. BorgWarner will not loosen control over product prices and core technologies, so that the lack of the right to cooperate can only make the joint venture become a joint venture company. A joint venture production plant, and the original cooperation will also be a collective purchase.
"In the long-term interest, such cooperation will undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the domestic automatic transmission industry." A person in charge of a domestic automatic transmission research and development company said that Shanghai United Automotive Electronics Co., established 13 years ago, proved this At one point, even with the 50:50 holding cooperation, 13 years later we still could not get the technology from Bosch. Bosch used the “Shanghai United†to occupy more than 70% of the market share of the domestic engine management system with lower product prices. Leading the industry standards, some domestic enterprises that were trapped in technological R&D were either closed down or were acquired. Similarly, the joint venture between Bosch and Wuxi Weifu also made Bosch almost occupy the market of the entire diesel engine electronically controlled injection management system in the country, and eventually led Vichai and other companies to be forced to develop high-cost diesel direct injection systems to compete with them. We are equally reluctant to see the joint venture company invested by China Development Partners as a springboard for BorgWarner to occupy the domestic automatic transmission market.
â— Domestic DCT or trapped control system
Ma Bende said that after the joint venture goes into production, it will not provide the control module software of the transmission except that it provides the core components of the DCT gearbox to the 12 companies of the joint venture. The software will be developed by the automaker to match different engines. However, industry insiders have stated that domestic automakers currently do not have the capability to develop control software for DCT gearboxes, even though they can still be developed under engine control systems. He also stated that unlike CVT, the control programs of automatic transmissions such as DCT and AT need to have good communication with the engine management system in order to achieve reliable operation, since the current domestic engine control systems are almost entirely from Bosch and Delphi. Foreign companies, and Bosch is committed to the development of CVT technology, in the face of the impact of DCT Bosch can provide manufacturers with DCT control system matching engine management program at a reasonable price is still unknown.
â— Automatic transmission requires more independent innovation
As consumers, they are more willing to see advanced autonomous automatic transmissions appear on domestic cars more quickly. As a country, the automatic gearbox R&D project has been listed as a state-promoted project for development. Because automatic transmissions are like the "Godson" and "big airplane" projects, it is not only about the entire domestic automotive industry that is more related to national security and interests.
“Independent innovation is related to the country’s security and development. We are not opposed to the establishment of joint ventures or wholly-owned companies for the production of automatic transmissions, nor are we opposed to the introduction of technology by some companies to engage in production. However, as the China- The large-scale joint venture of the depot is a misguided orientation. Such a guidance indicates that we will want to let the core technology go out and be controlled by foreign companies, so that the original R&D companies that have been difficult to survive will be in trouble.†.
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What is a DCT transmission
The Dual Clutch Transmission is a dual clutch automatic transmission. The technology has already been applied to products such as Volkswagen and others, and Volkswagen Golf GTI and Audi TT have taken the lead in the Chinese market.
The principle of DCT transmission technology has many similarities with traditional manual transmission. The difference is that the automatic control shifting method is adopted. The DCT transmission uses two automatically controlled clutches that control the operation of both clutches by electrical signals and a hydraulic system. When the gearbox is in operation, one clutch is linked and power is transmitted to the corresponding transmission gear to output power, and a gear close to the gear is linked with the other clutch as a preselected gear. The two clutches alternately output power at different gear positions.
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