Transmission Insights
CVTs
May 17, 2013
Friction Modifier DifferencesIt is often assumed that lubricants are a commodity product and that there is little real difference between brands – or even between the types of lubes needed for vehicle components such as the engine, transmission, axles [...]
MANUALS AND AMTS
April 17, 2013
Dedicated Driveline LubricantsThe automotive industry continues to benefit from the use of high-tech manual transmission fluids in current and future synchronized manual transmissions Courtesy Transmission Technology International In a world of [...]
CVTs
March 19, 2013
Friction Materials for the FutureJust fifteen years ago, it was a bit simpler. Automatic transmissions were more straightforward with just a handful of gears and a couple of clutches. CVTs were confined to smaller cars, and DCTs were little more than a [...]
MANUALS AND AMTS
February 12, 2013
Advances in Manual Transmission Design and Lubrication for [...]Sophisticated multi-speed automatic transmissions may get all the headlines, but it is manual gearboxes that keep most of the world on the move. This was one of the main messages to emerge from the webcast on Advances in [...]
CVTs
January 9, 2013
AT, CVT, DCTAutomatic transmissions are widely used across many international markets. A range of technologies is available, with different solutions tending to find favor in different regions. But how do each of these work, how have [...]
PLANETARIES
September 24, 2012
ATs in Trucks & Buses?The effects of rapid expansion in large developing countries such as Brazil, China and India have been felt by OEMs and suppliers across the auto industry. But while the most-publicized impact has been on passenger car and [...]
CVTs
December 29, 2011
CVT Shifts into High RatioDuring a webcast at the Global Drivetrain Virtual Summit, presenters Martin Kruessmann, Engineering Vice President for Bosch Transmission Technology; Shinji Morihiro, Corporate Vice President for JATCO Ltd and James [...]
HYBRIDS/ELECTRICS
December 15, 2011
Adjusting Drivetrain Design for EVs & HybridsThe need to increase efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions is by far the most powerful driver for today’s auto industry – few would dispute that. As far as light and medium duty vehicles are concerned, boosting efficiency [...]
HYBRIDS/ELECTRICS
November 11, 2011
EV Transmissions: The Challenges that Lie AheadWith vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt enjoying a high public profile, the engineering and design visions for electric cars are at last being tested in the real world by real consumers. The move to electric cars could be the [...]
MANUALS AND AMTS
October 4, 2010
Dedicated Additives for MTsA large percentage of the world’s vehicles are equipped with manual transmissions. The components in these transmissions and the duty cycles they go through are similar to those in axle technologies, and for this reason [...]
