There are many domestic cars that can build good engines, I can't count them in one hand, Great Wall Changan Geely, BYD Chery, etc., the premise of making the car run is that there is an engine, and the strength of all enterprises in the past few decades is on how to build a car.
The engine has been the object of domestic car attack in the past many years, the drawings are understood by everyone, the technical personnel are circulated, and the first-class business is also universal, and it is not difficult to produce the engine.
We now have the mainstream 15t、1.6t、2.0t engine, which can meet the ** of 5-200,000 products, no problem.
I even think that the engine of the own brand, in a sense, is developed in advance and can be compared with some competitors.
Since the engine is not, then what is?
My answer is still independent intellectual property rights, including but not limited to gearbox, matching and debugging technology, four-wheel drive system and quality control system, and even enterprise system planning, which are the shortcomings of independent brands.
For example, our four-wheel drive system is not independently developed, BorgWarner is one of the core suppliers of its own brand, our transmission solves part of the problem, dual-clutch and CVT can be developed by itself, but the AT transmission is still purchased from Hyundai, Toyota and ZF.
Open the engine nacelle, Bosch accounts for a large part of the spare parts.
I firmly believe that what Ren Zhengfei said is very right, opposing pure independent research and development, standing on the shoulders of others to do their own research and development, is the key to promote the rapid development of the industry, it is possible to change the industry, change the way of life.
Purchasing other people's parts is no problem, but the problem is that we can't simply rely on others, our procurement of others should be based on the situation that we have technical reserves, and only buy others just to balance the effect and benefits.
Our shortcomings, in fact, are our parts industry, the domestic industry does not have a strong gearbox environment, no strong four-wheel drive system, no strong top parts suppliers, this is often in product performance, quality is subject to others.
This kind of shortcoming will take some time to improve.
A while ago, Geely did a thing, called the integration of the first chain, in fact, Geely has done this for many years, frequently acquiring enterprises, is to create its own parts industry, internal resources after the integration of its own products, can better output high-quality models.
Mentally speaking, it's absolutely fine, but it takes time.
The real development of independent brands is only more than ten years, from the current point of view, today's expressiveness has been very strong, fully worthy of the hard work behind engineers and entrepreneurs, but want to face up to a century-old enterprise, or a little weak, especially in high-tech and mainstream technology, we are still subject to others.
Of course, I am not worried about the future of independent brands, after all, from the current point of view, we also have our own strengths, for example, the core attitude of the enterprise is our advantage, following the trend to build a new way of consumption, technology environment, but also the industry leader.
And these two aspects, but also our core competitiveness to surpass foreign brands, in this competitiveness, we to make up for our shortcomings, obviously, very reasonable.