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2019 is an extremely passive year for the industry. The sound of engine failure is rising one after another. With the help of some public opinions, it is as if the engine will disappear from the market soon. In fact, with the support of the electrification technology, the engine has considerable potential to be explored. The vehicle and parts enterprises have not given up the continuous investment in the engine related technology, and are also increasing the efforts of resource integration and sharing. 30 seconds to read the full text: 1. Around the development direction of electrification, the main engine factory and parts enterprises are still increasing their R & D investment in the engine, while sharing the cost through a new round of resource integration and independent external supply. 2. In the low-speed and even downward stage of the automobile industry, reducing repetitive R & D, coordinated brand development and improving resource utilization are the fundamental objectives of resource integration inside and outside the enterprise. 3. China's market is a market with multiple technologies. Enterprises should redefine their advantages and disadvantages in the "doing" and "buying" of multiple technologies in order to make the right choice. 4. The improvement of engine technology level of local enterprises is inseparable from the integration of global parts resources, while the lack of key parts and the hollowing of core technology are still the heart of China's engine industry. More than ten days ago, the holding company announced that Geely Automobile and automobile are exploring the possibility of merging their engine business, aiming to establish the world's leading powertrain business unit, R & D and production of leading powertrain and systems. Geely also stressed that the integrated new business unit will become an independent power system supplier, which can also supply other vehicle manufacturers. Since last year, there has been another case in the industry that has a great impact on the integration of resources within the group or holding resources and independent external supply, that is, the beehive of automobile is easy to create, among which the independent resources include engine and other resources. In fact, this choice of automobile enterprises is the most effective way to deal with the reform of automobile market, improve the utilization rate of resources and share the development cost. As the power source of driving automobile, the essence of engine has not changed, but the position of engine in the market has changed quietly. The electric technology makes the thermal efficiency of the engine improve continuously, and the hybrid technology makes the traditional engine batch on a new coat. The engine needs to get a balance between performance, fuel consumption and emissions. Geely and Volvo plan to merge the engine business of "2.0td turbocharged engine" in order to help Volvo accelerate the process of electrification. Volvo is committed to selling half of all models of pure electric vehicles and half of hybrid vehicles by 2025 or so. There is no "latecomer" in the engine industry, and there will not be another brand specializing in engine research and development. However, the global automobile industry's demand for efficient engines and hybrid systems will continue to grow. An Conghui, CEO and President of Geely Automobile Group, said Geely will continue to increase investment in research and development of clean and efficient power assembly and hybrid system, and lay out the high-end industrial chain prospectively. "Good thing!" Yao Chunde, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of combustion science of internal combustion engine of Tianjin University, gave a very direct evaluation on the integration of Geely and Volvo's power resources and possible external supply. "It's a popular behavior in the market, like the independent and external supply of Great Wall beehive." Said Yao Chunde. "Wey vv7" at present, there are too many repeated R & D among domestic automobile and parts enterprises. Whether internal or industrial resource integration is an inevitable demand for the phased development of China's automobile industry, especially in the stage of industrial downturn and entering the "platform period", the efficient use of resources becomes more important. "After Geely acquired Volvo in 2010, we increased technical exchanges internally. The drive-e powertrain achievement is the product of cooperation between the two sides. Geely further developed the hybrid powertrain on the basis of the cooperation achievement," an engineer from Geely powertrain Research Institute told the automotive home editor It is reported that the new institutions after integration will supply power systems for Volvo cars, Geely cars, linker cars, proton cars, rutes, London electric vehicles and other brands, and strengthen the synergy between brands. On the other hand, Geely's power business integration with Volvo also meets the application requirements of Geely's CMA infrastructure. As early as 2012, Geely and Volvo decided to develop CMA architecture, which is the key task of Geely's European R & D center. At present, all models of linker and xc40 of Volvo are based on CMA architecture. The current Chinese automobile market of "Volvo xc40" has gathered the advanced technology of global brands. There are naturally aspirated and turbocharged models. The main engine plant has different technical options for fuel saving and antifriction. The national requirements for vehicle fuel consumption limit and emission control level make the engine technology more refined. Xu Min, President of Automotive Engineering Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University, summed up in an interview with automotive home that in the huge and complex Chinese automotive market, no one technology route has an absolute advantage, and no one technology route has an absolute disadvantage. The coexistence of multi technology and multi energy is the main feature of China's automobile power market in the future. But it's a problem for many OEMs. "Battery cars have been applied in the field of domestic passenger cars." the coexistence of multiple technologies and multiple energy sources means that the main engine plant and parts enterprises need to make a more comprehensive investment layout, and the scale of a single brand is not enough to effectively share the cost of huge investment. Therefore, the technology exchange, exchange and sharing between enterprises become the inevitable choice at present. In fact, this kind of atmosphere has been formed in the foreign automobile market more than 20 years ago. The main engine manufacturers, even the government and the research and development institutions jointly invest in the research and development of new engine and chassis technology. According to Xu Min, the main engine factory and parts enterprises always have to choose between "doing" and "buying" of new technologies. In the new value chain of the domestic automobile industry, each enterprise has to re evaluate its own positioning. In the communication with a number of industry experts, we can clearly feel the recognition of local brand engines. With the development of Chinese automobile industry for many years, engine has always been the key point for enterprises to break through. If the engine R & D and supporting capacity of local enterprises are insufficient, there will be no global resource integration of engine industry led by local enterprises. Xin Jun, founder and President of Eason Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., believes that many enterprises put forward "sharing" of products and technologies at present, aiming to expand scale efficiency after technology matures, so as to further promote the positive development of technology. According to Xinjun analysis, in the early stage of the development of China's automobile market, there are two important market performances. One is the urgent demand for "original technology". The local parts enterprises have been trying to develop forward-looking technology and go out of the passive development stage of following and imitating. The purpose is to solve our "have" problem first, and now we are facing the problem of "use not" in the market; the other is to solve the problem of "use not" in the market The vertical integration of parts and components resources by China's main engine manufacturers, such as GM and GM, is very successful in this respect, while domestic enterprises are not brilliant. The main reason is that the scale cannot be reached and the R & D cannot be fed back from the market. Today, we see the advanced technology of local brand engine technology, but we also need to see the importance and irreplaceable role of foreign component enterprises in the local power assembly supply chain under the trend of global resource integration. Xu Min believes that there is a gap between the engine level of China's main engine plant and the top level of foreign capital, but it has been very small, and it is difficult to feel this gap from the vehicle comparison experience alone. "Upstream, we are using the accessories of the top international component suppliers, and the advanced and intelligent production lines are even better than others. In this case, I would like to give some Chinese enterprises a wake-up call -- be aware of the hollowing out of technology. " Xu Min said. In the past decade, the progress of Chinese brand engine technology is very intuitive, and the overall level of R & D and manufacturing is improving. But as Professor Xu Min said, in many key parts, such as turbocharger, high-pressure common rail system, and even some parts of gearbox and transmission system, foreign investment is still in a monopoly position. On the one hand, the good is the improvement of integration ability of local enterprises, on the other hand, the bad is the lack of local supply system in key technologies. Throughout today's automobile market, there are still demands and prospects for engines, but the elimination competition has begun, who will stick to the end?