Nissan sells over a million CVTs in 2007

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Apr 25th 2008 at 7:26PM

As we've reported before, Nissan is committed to the continuously variable transmission (CVT) for use in passenger cars due to the environmental improvements that the alternative transmission's enhanced efficiency allows. CVT transmissions are not locked into set gear ratios, instead they can offer any ratio which falls in between their minimum and maximum values as defined by multiple internal pulleys or planetary gearsets. In 2007, Nissan surpassed its stated goal of selling a million CVT transmission units in passenger cars by selling 1,088,000 in total, just less than thirty percent of its total global sales. In North America and Japan, though, the CVT represents almost half of Nissan's total transmission output.

Just how much good are Nissan's CVT's for the environment? Nissan's data suggests that a million cars equipped with CVT's is equal to the carbon reduction of 200,000 hybrids -- many of which use CVT transmissions as it is.

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Filed under: Nissan, Europe/EU, North America, Japan

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kevin Nugent 11:04PM (4/26/2008)

NICE kiddies just keep it going

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Rick 6:51PM (4/28/2008)

Hmm, unless Nissan's CVT is better than everyone else's, I don't see this as a big deal. Firstly, most if not all of Nissan's non manual cars are CVT (at least in the states). Secondly, Mitsubishi is CVT, my Audi is a CVT, there are tons of CVT cars out there. So many just a footnote of mention is all I'm looking for.

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MikeW 2:30PM (4/29/2008)

hybrids use IVTs

The use of CVTs reduce the waste of having the torque converter open under 40mph, and partially open from 20-40mph.

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