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What is a continuously variable transmission?

As much as many of us would love to park our fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines for good in favor of electric or hydrogen-powered cars, that's not likely to happen on a grand scale in the next several years. Like it or not, we've managed to create a technology that's proven so effective in moving people and all their stuff all over the world that it's proving extremely difficult to transition away from it, no matter what the consequences are. As true as this may be, it doesn't mean that traditional drivetrain designs can't be ... Read more →

Nissan ekes one more mpg from Versa, Infiniti G up by two Jeremy Korzeniewski

It may not seem like much, but the single extra mile per gallon that Nissan plans to extract from its Versa subcompact will surely be appreciated by its purchasers. After all, every little bit of ...

Yamaha files patent for Enduro bike with CVT transmission Jeremy Korzeniewski

Yamaha recently filed a patent in the United States for an enduro motorcycle with a continuously variable transmission. The CVT, as it's better known, is one of the most efficient means of ...

Editorial: Gears: The more the merrier? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Is it solely a case of one-upmanship that is driving the number of forward gear ratios forward in today's passenger cars? Or, are consumers choosing vehicles based on the number of gears in the ...

Ridley Motorcycles: Custom bikes, automatic transmissions Jeremy Korzeniewski

All right, the weather is starting to get nicer, finally. Today where I live in Ohio we hit 75 degrees and the sun was out. I opened up the garage to get my motorcycle out for the first time in ...


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