As one of the world's top gearbox suppliers, AISIN's influence in the Chinese automotive market can be said to be unparalleled, AISIN's 6AT gearbox has dominated the Chinese automotive market for more than ten years, with excellent smoothness and stability, coupled with relatively low procurement costs, has been welcomed by many independent brands and many joint venture brands, and its peak period almost occupies half of the domestic automatic transmission market. Looking back now, the aisin 6AT transmission has achieved brilliant achievements, and no gearbox has been able to surpass it so far.
With the development of the automotive industry, car companies have higher and higher requirements for performance and energy efficiency, and the era of Aisin 6AT gearbox has gradually come to an end, and the Aisin 8AT gearbox with higher transmission efficiency has been entrusted with heavy responsibilities and has become the main product of AISIN. Since its inception in 2012, the Aisin 8AT transmission with a horizontal structure has been recognized by many automobile brands, especially in recent years, the installed capacity of the Aisin 8AT gearbox in the Chinese market has increased day by day, but its market share is still far less than that of the aisin 6AT gearbox. So, why did the Aisin 8AT transmission not continue the glory of the Aisin 6AT?
Compared with the Aisin 6AT gearbox, the Aisin 8AT gearbox has a more complex structure and higher process requirements, which means that its cost is higher. It is reported that the purchase unit price of Aisin 8AT gearbox is more than 9,000 yuan, which is about 2,000 yuan more expensive than the purchase unit price of the third-generation Aisin 6AT gearbox, which is a grade higher. For those low-end domestic cars with low profit margins, the Aisin 8AT gearbox is obviously high, so we can see that the aisin 8AT gearbox is basically some high-end domestic cars, or joint venture cars.
When aisin 6AT transmission was popular, it was also the shortage of transmission technology of its own brand, when the independent brand generally did not have its own transmission technology, and the technical level and market environment of the dual-clutch transmission were not mature, giving aisin 6AT gearbox more opportunities. Now Aisin 8AT gearbox is in a completely different era environment, Geely, Great Wall, Changan, BYD and other independent brands have developed their own dual-clutch gearbox, to a large extent, self-sufficient, naturally reduce the dependence on Aisin transmission products.
In addition to the transmission developed by the independent brand itself, the competition between peers is also constantly impacting the market share of Aisin transmission, and the double-clutch transmission supplier represented by Getrag and BorgWarner, relying on cost advantages, has risen rapidly in the Chinese market in recent years and has become a fragrant food. Moreover, Getrag and BorgWarner not only provide transmission products, but also output transmission technology, so many independent brands that have cooperated with AISIN before have now turned to getrag and BorgWarner embrace, and AISIN gearboxes are no longer the only choice for independent brands.
Based on the Aisin 6AT gearbox upgrade of the Aisin 8AT gearbox, its own strength is very strong, the performance level and stability are excellent, as long as the tuning is good, the smoothness is not a problem, it is still the benchmark of the horizontal AT gearbox in the industry. The reason why aisin 8AT gearbox has not continued to be brilliant, the most essential reason is that the market competition environment is more intense, which is actually the result of the development of the automotive industry, when the gearbox technology is no longer in the hands of a small number of enterprises, a monopoly of the situation will inevitably be broken.