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Recently at the CTI Symposium in Berlin, the British company Ricardo has presented its cutting-edge e-motor as well as a new dual-clutch transmission (DCT) solution with the east-west mounting, which is notable for its compact size and integration capacities with an e-motor in hybrid vehicles.

Joint efforts of Opel and Luk engineers led to development of the automated Easytronic gearbox which combines advantages of manual and automatic transmissions. In this article, we will consider design peculiarities, operating modes, pros and cons, typical problems of the Easytronic transmission and tips on how to prolong its service life.

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.