A few weeks ago, I went to the amazing Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Indiana, where I learned about an axle that has not just one gear ratio like in pretty much all modern cars, but two.
Ford is recalling more than 550,000 pickup trucks because some transmissions can suddenly downshift to first gear, creating a possible crash hazard, according to federal auto regulators. In a report ...
The first car credited by the author as being equipped with two or more direct drives is the Sizaire-Naudin, in 1905. The transmissions of this car and of one embodying similar principles of gearing, ...
STATING that improvements can be made in the smoothness, flexibility and economy of motor-cars by the provision of axle ratios and transmission steps that will make high road-speeds possible with ...
Why a two-speed transmission when 10-speeds are readily available? Electric motors have a vastly broader "sweet spot" of efficient torque delivery than combustion engines, so they don't need frequent ...