In recent years, China's industrial strength has developed rapidly, and various projects that have shocked the world have been realized one after another, making China famous in the world. However, there are still many friends who are very curious, our country's technical strength is indeed getting stronger step by step, but why so far, domestic engines are still no foreign engines can play?
First, domestic cars started late
The emergence of automobile engines can be traced back to the Netherlands in the 17th century, of course, if we look back at our current technology, it is inevitable that we will feel that the so-called engines in the past are very simple in principle and function. But simplicity does not mean easy to do, and from the 17th century to the present hundreds of years, the engine has undergone a long historical transformation, and the original internal combustion engine is very different.
Although the principle of the engine has not changed, the performance of the engine manufactured by various countries is also very different due to the difference in technical means and processing technology. In this regard, due to the late start of the domestic automobile industry, it has no advantage over other countries. And each car company attaches great importance to its own core technology protection, and has applied for many patents for it, so although the developers of independent brands can know the principle, they cannot directly use other people's technology beyond the patent, coupled with the fact that it is difficult to achieve high-precision processing parts in China, which also restricts the development of domestic engines to a certain extent.
Second, the investment in research and development is not high
In May 2020, a securities company released a research report on the investment of car companies in research and development, which showed that in 2019, great wall motors invested at least 4.2 billion yuan in the investment of major independent brand car companies in automobile research and development, and the most BYD was double that of Great Wall Motors, a total of 8.4 billion yuan.
Toyota invested $10 billion in research and development in the same year, Volkswagen invested $16.9 billion, and Ford, which has a smaller investment, also has $8 billion, equivalent to more than 50 billion yuan. Of course, this is not to say that independent brands do not have this kind of financial resources, but the focus at home and abroad is different.
Third, the traditional engine is no longer the future development direction
In fact, it is not difficult to find that there are many reasons why independent brands are difficult to produce the world's top engines. As far as the current situation is concerned, the requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction in various countries in the world are getting higher and higher, and many European countries have announced specific time to ban the sale of fuel vehicles. New energy vehicles have become an inevitable trend in the future development of the automotive industry, and even honda, which has always been conservative, has launched its first pure electric model at this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, which means that the fuel engine is no longer the future development direction.
Of course, domestic independent brands can also predict this trend to a certain extent, so Ken spends less and less energy on the research and development of fuel engines. With the time when China's Hainan Province has clearly banned the sale of fuel vehicles, fuel vehicles are likely to withdraw from the market step by step in the future, so independent brands have also begun to pay more attention to the field of new energy vehicle technology, intending to seize the opportunity after banning the sale of fuel vehicles.
summary:
Independent brands can not produce top engines to put it bluntly and the principle is not simple in fact, there is little to do with it, the main reason is that car companies are no longer willing to waste effort on fuel engines. It's like having a smart phone, no one cares if the flip phone is done well or not, and after college, you are no longer willing to study the homework of elementary school students. Since the fuel engine is no longer the mainstream development direction in the future, it will not take long for even if the car company achieves the "world's top".