International Bus Exhibition in Beijing, there are 19 passenger vehicle manufacturers, over 60 of passenger cars on display. Reporters on the exhibition show car equipped with the transmission for the rough statistics, the balance found in the 60 passenger cars, there are 40 types of vehicles equipped with the gearbox manufacturer is producing its own brand a manual transmission. Manual transmission made by the maturity of the technology, fuel consumption and low impact, passenger cars equipped with automatic transmission as the current bus decorated several flower exhibition "flowers."

    Leading exhibitors manual transmission bus

    The passenger in the exhibition site, Qijiang, Fast, China's heavy truck transmission manufacturing enterprises and other domestic production of manual transmission is the main exhibition bus configuration, as the bus show the most common brand of several transmission.

    FAW Bus Buses on display 3 and 1 high-speed bus, equipped with its own brand of transmission are the transmission. In addition to high-speed bus which is equipped with the gear plant in Qijiang 6-speed manual transmission, the other three models are equipped buses in the development of FAW own transmission. Wuhan Yangtze River Bus Group with 3 bus, equipped with the production plants are Qijiang gear transmission.

    "Compared to the transmission of foreign and domestic transmission is relatively cheap, and performed well in the same conditions, we prefer the use of domestic transmission. If the customer has specified requirements, we will be optional transmission abroad." A bus company is responsible for said.

    Reporters noted that in its own brand position of absolute dominance of the transmission bus exhibition site, a group of foreign brands transmission booth. Including South Korea's unification, Sweden, Scania and other international brands transmission booth, however, compared to the brand in the domestic transmission of a large number of participating models equipped with these foreign brands transmission bit solitary. Abroad in the domestic passenger car transmission manual transmission is gradually reducing the impact of the market, they are more high-tech automatic transmission to seize the market, to some extent, this change in the transmission industry in China has sounded the alarm.

    Passenger car automatic transmission is hard to promote a wide range

    Although the automatic transmission in the domestic passenger cars began to emerge, but the bus-based passenger cars participating in this exhibition, automatic transmission is rare, did not become the mainstream of buses in the transmission.

    Passenger cars on display in many companies, there are 40 types of cars with manual transmission, automatic transmission, 10 automobile models. This shows the technology is relatively mature domestic manual transmission, fuel consumption control, lower cost than the automatic transmission advantage; the other hand shows that the domestic automatic transmission is also largely dependent on imported products, transmission technological level and production capacity is limited, imports product cost is relatively high. Thus, to some extent caused by failure in the automatic transmission on the scale of China's urban bus applications.

    In recent years, with automatic transmission technology, to improve conditions for bus drivers driving the requirements to become some of the bus company, bus company has introduced a number of cities equipped with automatic transmission Buses. For a time, automatic transmission bus city bus will become the development trend of the sound gradually become larger.

    Although the automatic transmission easy to operate, greatly reducing the bus driver's labor intensity, but high-cost automatic transmission brings the car to use the high fuel consumption, is that many users can not afford the bus.

    A bus company booth staff told reporters: "In China, the vast majority of bus user groups still favor the manual transmission, after all, compared to the automatic transmission, manual transmission, fuel economy advantage more pronounced. Although the automatic transmission control of the good than the manual transmission, Some cities have purchased a automatic transmission equipped bus, but still isolated. Buses automatic transmission in the Chinese market has not scale. "