BorgWarner (BW), a leading company in environment-oriented technologies for combustion, hybrid and electric cars, will supply its Eco-Launch stop/start solenoid-operated valve and a hydraulically-actuated accumulator for Ford cars with the front-wheel drive.

Tiptronic is a trade name of the manual gear shifting function (mode), which is implemented in the automatic transmissions. In the world of the automobile industry the name Tiptronic is used to define automatic transmissions of a specific design and control method regardless of the actual developer and producer of the transmission.

Recently, it has been revealed that PSA Group reached an agreement with Aisin AW to manufacture the EAT6 gearbox in France. Until recently, this transmission was produced by Aisin and imported from Japan, but the growing popularity of automatic gearboxes spurred PSA into action.

Recently it has transpired that Porsche jointly with the startup company iNDTact has designed an innovative technology, which will allow repair specialists to detect any vehicle malfunctions at an early stage.

Currently it seems that the whole automobile industry became obsessed with more and more sophisticated transmission solutions. So why more gears? The list of potential advantages of such solution includes smoother shifts, enhanced fuel efficiency, and improved performance characteristics, but it's not all that simple......

The representatives of the Japanese company Jatco reported that its Chinese production branch JATCO Guangzhou has recently released the 5-th million CVT. The Chinese subsidiary started production of cumulative CVTs in 2009.

Skoda announced that the company’s factory in Vrchlabi, Czech Republic, achieved a significant milestone of 2 million produced dual-clutch transmissions DQ200. The factory in Vrchlabi became of the Skoda manufacturing network more than 70 years ago.

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.

The valve body is a hydraulic “controller” (also called as a “transmission brain”) consisting of valves, solenoids, sensors batteries and attached to them are passages and channels, which guide the flow of ATF to various valves with the purpose to activate required clutch and shift the gear properly according to the driving situation.

Recently Toyota has presented new developments based on the modular architecture named as Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA). In this article we will review these innovations and their main features.

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.

The company Muncie Power Products updated TG and 82 Series power take-off (PTO) mechanisms. Now these sophisticated units have sealing plate gaskets which can endure the automated transmission oil employed by the gearbox.

Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies plans to recall more than one thousand of automated transmissions because of a software malfunction that may lead to uncontrollable movement of the vehicle.

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.

While manual gearboxes utilize the clutch to shift speeds, automatic transmissions make use of a sophisticated hydraulic system for shifting, and the transmission solenoid is especially important for this process.