Recently, Russian presidential assistant, Maxim Oreshkin talked about the development of China's auto industry in an interview with a magazine, and he used one sentence to describe how amazing the current development speed of China's auto industry is: under the impact of China's auto industry, global car companies such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW may become history in 10 years.
The correspondent of the magazine "Expert" asked Maxim Oreshkin how China's auto industry is taking over the Russian market step by step, and he wondered what the other party thinks about this.
However, Oreshkin did not care about this. He said that this is a very normal trend, and the whole world, except for the United States and Tesla, which can compete with Chinese car companies, is unlikely to confront China anywhere else.
In the end, all European car companies, whether Mercedes-Benz or BMW, Rolls-Royce or Audi, even Russia's own local car companies, will lose to China, and the final result is that, like Volvo, the brand may still be saved, but sold to Chinese car companies.
First of all, Chinese cars have a technological advantage over European cars for about five to ten years, especially in the area of electric cars. China's new energy vehicles started early and are technologically advanced.
Originally, Europe still had the opportunity to use its advantages in the field of traditional oil vehicles to delay time, conduct technical research, at least develop trams that are no less than China's, and then use their own brand advantages to overwhelm China's technological advantages.
But who would have thought that a Russian-Ukrainian war would completely disrupt the layout of European car companies. The vast majority of European energy comes from Russia, and now the Russian side has stopped energy exports to Europe, which directly leads to the fact that Europeans cannot afford to burn oil. If you can't afford to burn gas, you can only turn to buy electric cars, and the price of Tesla in the United States is inflated, considering the current European economy on the verge of collapse, in the end, there is no way, and the people in Europe can only choose to buy Chinese electric cars.
But in fact, things have developed to this point is not completely hopeless, and there are some turnarounds. After all, Europe can still import oil from the Middle East, and then the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out, and the Middle East stopped transporting oil to Europe, and as the war continued, the Red Sea shipping lanes were blocked by Yemen. Well, Africa's oil can't be counted on, unless it is to go around the Cape of Good Hope and go directly to the Strait of Gibraltar to transport oil to Europe, but this cost is needless to say, it is sky-high, so Europe's oil trucks are completely finished.
And what about Russia? Russian automobiles have never been their dominant industry. Yes, Russia is very good at manufacturing vehicles, but what they are good at manufacturing is functional trucks, armored vehicles, heavy vehicles, tanks, civilian cars is their shortcoming, and there has been no breakthrough in the past few decades, and European car companies can't do anything to China, let alone Russia's own car companies.
At present, China has become the most important vehicle importer for Russia, and the Russian market has also become the largest export destination for Chinese cars. However, considering that European car companies were also washed away by the Chinese auto industry, Maxim Oreshkin was relieved, anyway, they all lost to China. So from this point of view, Russia has made a small profit, you think, it was all washed away by Chinese car companies, and Europe was washed out by a series of big brands such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Audi, etc., and Russia was washed away...... It's a group of enterprises that the Russians themselves don't understand. Is this a much more balanced comparison?
At present, Russia's attitude towards Chinese car companies is to eat and drink well, provide various support and convenience in terms of taxation and policy, and invite Chinese experts to train a group of new energy vehicle technicians for Russia. Try to build your own new energy vehicle company in the future. Anyway, it's a new track, and everything is starting from scratch. This is also an excellent time for Russia to develop its auto industry, and if it is grasped, Russia may really be able to cultivate the next generation of mega-enterprises, at least in terms of automobiles, and no longer need to look up to the European Union.
The disappearance of the traditional oil truck industry may not be a bad thing for Russia, after all, there are many oil truck companies in Europe, but not many in Russia. After all, this is a completely new field, and the brands of the oil car era have no advantage in the tram era. Because of China's opportunity, Russian car companies have got a chance to compete with European car companies.