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The reason why Li Yifan didn't rush to leave was because he had been waiting for news from Zhou Yuanchao.

Since taking over Chenhua Auto the last time, it happened to be asking Annie to arrange for Zhou Yuanqiao to come and have a look. After seeing the situation of Chenhua Auto and the conditions Li Yifan drove, Zhou Yuanchao did not think too much and quickly gave his reply.

He was willing to work for Chenhua Automobile, and after that, he returned to Australia.

After all, although he is the leader of the R&D department of D-private Company, if he wants to leave the company and take away some of his staff, he still needs a lot of preliminary preparations.

However, it has to be said that Zhou Yuanchao handled interpersonal relationships well this time, and soon won a team from D private, and defected from D private.

In fact, it can't be said to be defector, it can only be said to be collective resignation.

After all, the situation of D private company is not very good now. Since Li Yifan failed to acquire this company the last time, the company was finally taken over by an Australian company.

However, the company's prospects are not optimistic. This company used to make accessories for Ford's Australian branch and Chrysler's Australian branch, and is also a company that mainly produces transmissions.

However, Australia's market share has never been large, with a population of more than 20 million. Although it is among the developed countries, their automobile manufacturing industry is not developed.

The best-selling model in Australia is the Holden brand. It used to be a pure Australian local enterprise. However, with the advancement of General Motors' globalization strategy, the Holden company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors.

All of them are produced are private label products under General Motors, but even so, because they are close to Australian local enterprises, they are very popular among Australian local people.

Ford and Chrysler were not so lucky. They first set up some factories in Australia to assemble and produce their cars.

However, the products produced by Ford, Chrysler and GM are completely made according to their own preferences, that is, products created according to American habits. They are both products with large displacement.

Australians may like such products at the beginning, but over the long term, few people can accept them.

Australia is not the United States. It is rich in oil and also occupies the world's most productive Middle East. Therefore, the middle class in the United States does not have to worry too much about oil costs, but the Australian people are not able to do it.

Australia was originally a country rich in mineral resources, and this country has many of the most scarce mineral resources in the world. But there is one thing, but it has always been their heart disease. That is oil.

Australia is very short of oil. Although they have some offshore oil wells offshore, their output has always been low and most of their crude oil needs to be imported and supplied.

So this is the main reason why it is impossible for their people to enjoy oil prices like the United States, so large-displacement models, that is, those middle-class people can enjoy.

However, when the economic environment is bad, even the middle class may not be able to absorb such high oil prices.

In recent years, oil prices around the world have been in a slow rise. Although it means boiling a frog in warm water, many people have begun to unable to withstand such oil prices.

In Australia, cars in Japan began to become increasingly popular. Since the 1990s, Japanese-branded cars have become more and more common on the streets of Australia.

After entering the new millennium, Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have defeated the American Automobile Alliance, formed by reliable quality, cheap prices and low maintenance costs, with one sentence.

In Australia, the most popular car model is undoubtedly the Japanese brand, while the three American car companies are now the best ones, Holden, and Ford and Chrysler are gradually declining.

Their sales situation is getting worse and worse, and last year it hit a record low.

This directly affected the production and sales of D-private companies that specifically supply them. In fact, due to the slump of Ford and Chrysler, D-private companies have fallen into a state of losses for years.

And their technology is not enough to make them the leader in the transmission industry.

It is another very difficult thing to explore the market overseas.

Europe is a well-established region with developed old automobile industry, and many automobile companies have their own transmission supporting companies.

And going to Asia is even more impossible. Nowadays, Australian cars are beaten by Japanese and Korean cars. What can you do when you go to Asia?

But the United States doesn’t think about it at all. Although it is the world’s largest automobile market, Americans can build cars by themselves, and there are some places where the Japanese can mess with it.

So no matter how you look at it, you can't see the way out of D private, which makes many people who work in D private feel a burst of despair.

In addition, the company's unimprovement attitude and does not invest in new development projects, which has made many employees in the R&D department very dissatisfied.

This was a time when Zhou Yuanchao stood up and said that many people were immediately moved.

Change the platform. Although it is a Chinese automobile manufacturing company and has never heard of the reputation of this company, China is a factory in the world. There are no strange things about it.

Moreover, the boss promised that he would give everyone the same treatment, and he did not have to work in China, but he could also increase his investment in R&D, etc.

In this way, what else can everyone be dissatisfied with?

So after Zhou Yuanchao started hooking up, more than 30 employees from the R&D department quickly reached a consensus with him.

Zhou Yuanchao soon began to look for a new suitable studio in Australia. Li Yifan's money was in place very quickly, and Annie's staff were in Australia to cooperate with them, so they soon found a new venue and quickly entered the working state.

The first task Li Yifan assigned them was to change the 6-speed automatic transmission of D private.

dp is indeed one of the few manufacturers in the world that can produce 6-speed automatic transmissions. Nowadays, only Japanese Aisin Seiko, Germany's ZF, and General Motors and Ford's transmission production units.

Among them, the technology leaders are Germany's ZF and Japan's Aisin Seiko, but their six-speed automatic transmissions are now mainly equipped with relatively high-end models.

For example, for models such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Lexus, the mainstream mid-range cars on the market are more often using four-speed automatic transmissions and five-speed automatic transmissions.

For ordinary people, use four-speed automatic transmissions, and for advanced people, use five-speed automatic transmissions, and this situation will last for several years.

As for the automatic transmission production units of GM and Ford, their products can only be said to be in the stage of manufacturing. As for the performance and quality of the products, people who are familiar with American cars can only laugh.

However, Li Yifan knew that as Volkswagen promoted the successful development of their DSG transmission, the six-speed automatic transmission would soon be transferred to the market.

At that time, Aixin and ZF would turn to develop eight-speed automatic transmissions, while six-speed automatic transmissions are already ordinary products on the market.

In the next few years, he will be successful in the market with Volkswagen, Japanese manufacturers, and American manufacturers. So in the field of automatic transmissions, he must prepare early.

However, automatic transmissions have always been a shortcoming in the domestic automotive industry. Even more than ten years later, there are not many companies that are capable of developing and manufacturing automatic transmissions in private independent fields.

So he had to make plans early, and D's private six-speed automatic transmission was one of the earliest products he targeted.

Although d private can now produce six-speed automatic transmissions, their product is indeed an absolute non-mainstream rural product, because this transmission can only be used for rear-wheel drive models, not for current mainstream front-wheel drive models.

What Li Yifan asked these engineers to do was to change this transmission into a transmission suitable for front-wheel drive vehicles in the shortest time.

As for the issue of patents, hehe, after two years, the D-private will go bankrupt. Who will care about the patent issue of your transmission?

In addition, he asked these Australians to host the development because he did not intend to hold the unit for a long time.

After all, these groups are all Australians, and the arrogance that Australians have is very disliked. As a boss, he definitely doesn't like those thorns who are disobedient and demand a salary increase every few days.

So his idea was that after these people developed a six-speed automatic transmission suitable for the front-wheel drive, he would reduce his investment in this unit.

If you set up a real R&D unit in China, after all, only the unit that is truly in the palm of your hands is a trustworthy unit.

This unit, which is set up in Australia, is a place to make outposts and help him shoot and train designers.

During this period, Zhou Yuanchao has been flying in Australia and China. He is the leader of this transmission department. On the one hand, he has to supervise and participate in the improvement of the six-speed automatic transmission. On the other hand, he is also responsible for the construction of the power transmission department of Chenhua Automobile Company in China.
Chapter completed!