Research: Light vehicle transmissions - technologies and trends to 2015
Date published: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Description
This report examines existing and emerging transmissions technology and the market and legislative influences that are driving developments in the sector. It includes market forecasts for the current range of transmission design types, in addition to profiles of all of the main suppliers in the sector, both established and emerging.
Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION
MARKET DRIVERS
Emissions reduction
Packaging
Torque density
Performance characteristics
Cost
TECHNOLOGY
Manual
Planetary automatic
Manual override systems
Hondamatic
Continuously variable
Belt-and-pulley systems
Toroidal systems
Nissan-Jatco
Torotrak
NuVinci
Power-split (hybrids)
Automated manual
Single clutch systems
Hitachi
Mitsubishi Allshift
Dual clutch systems
- BorgWarner
- Getrag
- Antonov
- Niche DCTs
- Antonov
- Zeroshift
MARKET FORECASTS
Manual transmissions
Automatic transmissions
Continuously variable transmissions
Automated manual transmissions
SUPPLIER PROFILES
Established transmission suppliers
- Aisin Seiki
- BorgWarner
- Getrag
- Jatco
- Transmission Technologies Corporation (Tremec)
- ZF Friedrichshafen
Emerging transmission suppliers
- Antonov
- Torotrak
- Zeroshift
