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There are so many problems with electrification development. No infrastructure, no stations to charge the batteries. And charging takes too long. Also, many cars don’t match the charger, many vehicles have to
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Allison Transmission, one of the leading producers of automatic commercial-duty gearboxes, promoted Otto Szalavari to managing director of international marketing. It is assumed that this measure will bring a fresh and more sophisticated approach in promotion of the company’s products.
In late 2017 Schaeffler Group, a major supplier of automobile and industrial equipment, announced acquisition of the whole share package of Compact Dynamics from SEMIKRON. Schaeffler previously bought the controlling interest (51%) and now the bargain was related to the rest 49 % of shares.
Allison Transmission reached a remarkable point of half a million manufactured 4000 Series automatic transmissions. The company started manufacturing these transmissions in 1993 and gained profits from widespread application of this product in commercial-duty vehicles.
At the beginning of 2018, Landwind unveiled its brand-new car Xiaoyao. It is the 1-st car which is actually equipped with VT5 transmission. This CVT is notable for the largest available ratio coverage when comparing it with other competitive products.
Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!
Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.
Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.
Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.
Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.