The Key Points for the Development of Autonomous Automobile Autotransmission Industry in China

Through years of hard work, domestic brands have finally used our own transmissions to solve technical problems. The next step is the establishment of industrialization. The development of this stage will have even greater uncertainties. Foreign-invested auto transmission companies have brought unprecedented pressure to the current brand-name automatic transmission industry by lowering product prices or jointly with domestic auto companies.

The key to the realization of the industrialization of self-owned brand automatic transmissions is whether it can be supported by the entire vehicle company. At present, there are three types of vehicle companies: Sino-foreign joint ventures, private enterprises, and state-owned enterprises.

The selection of auto parts suppliers such as automatic transmissions of Sino-foreign joint ventures is in the hands of foreign parties. Foreigners are accustomed to using their parent company's mature key component suppliers, and it is almost impossible to choose Chinese autonomous automatic transmissions.

In this way, the hope of domestic industrialization of autonomous transmissions can only be placed on private vehicle companies and state-owned vehicle companies. Therefore, only domestic autonomous vehicle companies can save the domestic autonomous automatic transmission.

Domestic autonomous vehicle companies have provided very mature precedents for domestic autonomous automatic transmission enterprises to provide matching opportunities. The cooperation between Dongan Steam Exchange (DAE) and Zotye Automotive has achieved great success. Among the many models of Zotye vehicles equipped with DAE 6AT, due to Dongan Auto's targeted calibration of its engines, the vehicles of Zhongtai equipped with Dongfa's Auto 6AT are superior to their own brands in terms of running quality and fuel consumption. And absolutely no restrictions on supply and so on.

At the same time, the government is also an extremely important independent support force for the industrialization of autonomous automatic transmissions in China. In the context of expanding openness, the domestic auto industry should establish an anti-monopoly and anti-dumping working group involving legal experts and technical experts, establish a normal working mechanism, prevent foreign companies from dumping and monopolizing the market, and maintain domestic auto transmissions and other industrial safety.

For enterprises with limited technological capabilities, key technologies should be taken as the main line, capital as the link, resource integration and industrial restructuring, further optimizing the industrial structure, and synergistic innovation to accelerate the overall competitiveness of the domestic automobile industry. A national team of joint research and development of plug-in hybrid vehicles, pure electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicle high-efficiency powertrains will be established to seize the commanding heights of future industrial technologies.

Study and formulate policies such as tax deductions and subsidies that do not violate the rules of the World Trade Organization, and support the development of the domestic auto transmission industry chain to enhance its market competitiveness. In the course of procurement of official automobiles, the purchase volume of domestic autonomous automatic transmissions will be increased, which will provide market protection for the industrialization of domestic autonomous transmissions. Under the premise of independent decision-making, the company actively promotes in-depth cooperation between domestic autonomous transmission companies and domestic automakers, and in particular should guide autonomous auto companies to invest in domestic autonomous autotransmission companies.

There is a potential demand for more than 8 million automatic transmissions per year between self-owned domestic auto companies and domestic autonomous automatic transmission companies. If there is a close cooperation between domestic automakers and domestic autonomous autotransmission companies, there is still room for expansion in this market space. The domestic autonomous automatic transmission industry ushered in the most critical moment.