With the end of the Beijing Auto Show, in this grand event of the auto industry, we have demonstrated the charm of commercial vehicles in China both domestically and internationally. However, there are many deficiencies in the commercial vehicle industry in China. It seems that the "big cake" of China's auto industry will also be rushed to China. This may bring pressure to local commercial vehicles, but it may not be a good thing for China, where technology is not superior.
At the end of last year, the implementation time of the National IV Standard was finally settled after several delays. The “Announcement on the Implementation of National Phase IV Standards for Vehicle Compression Ignition Engines and Vehicle Pollutants†promulgated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection stipulates that the implementation time of the National IV emission standards will be July 1, 2013.
At the national IV emission upgrade threshold, with the completion of joint venture projects of heavy-duty truck companies such as JAC-Navistar, Foton-Daimler, CNHTC-German, and the earlier Red Rock-Fiat, domestic heavy truck companies began Accelerate the layout of powertrains and create an "independent gold industrial chain." The engine manufacturers that have entered the Chinese market through joint ventures such as Cummins, Hino, and Bosch are still waiting for the opportunity brought by the State IV standard.
"Heavy duty diesel engines are a direction for future development, and they will be a commanding point in the industry in the future." said Qian Hengrong, director of the FAW-liberation Wuxi Diesel Engine Plant (hereinafter referred to as "Xichai").
Multinational giants are rushing to the beach
In the face of foreign auto industry entry, joint ventures appear to be the path many companies have to take. Previously important cooperation partners of domestic heavy truck OEMs, Weichai Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Weichaiâ€), Guangxi Yuchai Machinery The Group (hereinafter referred to as "Yuchai"), Dongfeng Chaoyang Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhaochai") and domestic independent engine plants such as Xichai are likely to be "single fly."
Wang Zhongyue, Minister of Market Strategy of JAC Commercial Vehicle Company, told the reporter that “The current domestic brand engine products are not very good due to product quality, various technical indicators, including emission standards, and after-sales service guarantees in the international market. The ground has been solved, so we hope to have an international brand of power products. On the other hand, with the domestic emission standards are also constantly upgrading, in the future we need some high-end power configuration products to occupy the market.†Jianghuai and Navistar's The cooperation is also to “make up for deficiencies†and strengthen the layout of advanced engine projects. After the joint ventures like JAC-Navistar and Foton-Damler are put into production, whether they will continue to cooperate with the original local engine suppliers is also a common concern in the industry. He believes that under the current situation that China's trucks output will hit millions of vehicles at a time, although heavy-duty truck companies and domestic companies such as Weichai, Yuchai, Chaochao, and Xichai will continue to cooperate in the future, they will continue to cooperate with As the heavy-duty joint ventures are put into production one by one, independent engine plants such as Weichai will probably only be able to do supporting services on medium and low-end products. In the past, the good situation of “queuing and waiting for shipments†will also be forever gone.
In an interview with reporters, Wang Zhongyue said, “In the past, we cooperated with Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. on the engine of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. However, in recent years, we have also integrated the power supply chain, shrinking the supply chain and mainly focusing on This is a big trend for a high-quality supplier. In the future, China's auto industry will undergo cross-industry mergers and reorganizations. It will be very difficult for an independent engine plant to survive well under such a background."
As far as the domestic heavy truck industry is concerned, besides Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles, FAW Jiefang, and CNHTC and other key enterprises, other heavy truck companies such as Futian, Hualing, and Dayun have started from the assembly stage and still purchase a large number of engines. Therefore, many OEMs, including Shaanxi Auto, Foton, Beiben, SAIC Iveco Hongyan, etc., have close cooperation with Weichai, and in the field of 10 to 12 liter heavy truck engines, the Weichai “Blue Engine†series engine was once more domestic. The "independent suppliers" among the suppliers currently occupy approximately 36% of domestic heavy-duty vehicles and have a share of over 11% in the global heavy-duty engine market.
However, as Wang Zhongyue said, for heavy-duty truck companies, when the scale of the company reaches 500,000 or even a million units, it is necessary to control its own core power. It is no less than 50,000 years ago. The sales of ~10 million vehicles can also survive well.
Heavy truck companies still have to take the autonomous route
“The profit of the power product is even better than that of the whole vehicle. This is also an important reason why Weichai can consistently top the list in the automotive sector of listed companies. Like Jianghuai and Chery now, they all have their own motivation, if they have their own The neck is stuck in the hands of others, and it is very passive.†Wang Zhongyue told reporters that in fact, before Jianghuai Ye Hao, Futian Ye Hao, and Weichai's game are very difficult and passive, and OEMs are clearly aware of this One point, so the layout of their own core power system is more and more urgent.
The upgrading of power is undoubtedly a test for heavy truck companies. At the same time, it is also an important opportunity for “breakthroughâ€. In the situation where the product homogeneity tends to be more serious, the heavy truck company must have a core powertrain to avoid the engine being controlled by others. In the busy season of market sales, the engine of Weichai, a major supplier of heavy-duty engines, was difficult to obtain, and many heavy-duty truck companies lost a lot of orders.
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