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Trends for Manual and Conventional Automatic Transmissions and Innovative Transmissions to 2014

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Global market review of automotive transmissions forecasts to 2014

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This updated, fourth edition of the global transmissions report reviews the key market drivers for automotive transmissions and represents the latest reporting and analysis of transmissions technology. This report will give you an insight into the trends for manual and conventional automatic transmissions and innovative transmissions.

We also take a look at the long term prospects of hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and the electric traction effect on the transmission market. Whilst the report follows the same format as the third edition, all forecasts and manufacturer profiles have been overhauled and any major changes in the transmissions sector have been included.

This report will provide you with the following data:

  • Total vehicle production by area (includes cars, light trucks and LCVs), 2002-2014 (000s)
  • Manual transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
  • Automatic transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
  • CVT market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
  • AMT (including twin-clutch) market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
  • All innovative automatics market shares and volumes, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

Extract from the report - Chapter 1 Background and basic requirements

The overall market

Neglecting the relatively small demand for reconditioned units, the size of the new vehicle market determines the size of the transmissions market.

Worldwide sales of light-duty vehicles - passenger cars, SUVs, MPVs, light trucks and commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes maximum gross vehicle weight (MGVW) - amounted to over 64.492m in 2005.

The vast majority of these vehicles (the exceptions being hybrids and battery-electric vehicles with partial or totally electric traction) had basically similar transmission requirements, markedly different from those for the heavy commercial vehicles mainly used for freight haulage. It is accepted that vehicle production worldwide will continue to grow, although in present circumstances (as at January 2007) forecasts of growth in the fully developed markets are understandably being revised down to the point where growth out to 2014 is likely to be moderate at best.

Between 2005 and 2014, light duty vehicle manufacturing growth (in units) is forecast as 11.9% in Japan, 5.6% in the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and 7% in the pre-expansion EU15.

In the rapidly developing markets of Asia, and above all in China, the picture is conversely one of extremely rapid growth.

Here, our forecast is for no less than 172% growth in China - from an already considerable base - and 50.5% in India, with 39.2% growth foreseen also for South Korea, over the same period.

Forecasts prepared for this report, and shown in Table 1, taking existing political and economic uncertainties into account, suggest a world market for private passenger and light commercial vehicles of 85.1m by 2014, compared with 57.8m in 2002.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Background and basic requirements

Requirement: the need for transmission

Overall solutions

The overall market

Changes to methods of analysis

Fast-growing automatic share

Continuing manual popularity

but the automatic will win ground

Evolution of the conventional automatic

The technical alternatives

Chapter 2 Manual transmissions

The market for manual transmissions

The main trends

Clutches

Manual gearboxes

Manual gearbox manufacture and supply

Manual transmissions: future market prospects

Chapter 3 Conventional automatic transmissions

The market for conventional automatics

The main trends

Novel kinematics

Automatic transmission manufacture and supply

North American situation

Antonov

Audi

BMW

DaimlerChrysler

Fiat Auto

Ford

General Motors (GM)

Honda

Mitsubishi

Nissan-JATCO

PSA Peugeot Citroën

Renault

Toyota-Aisin AW

Volkswagen Group

ZF

Conventional automatic transmissions future market prospects

Chapter 4 New types of automatic transmission

The market for new types of automatic transmission

The main trends

Continuously-variable transmissions (CVTs)

Infinitely variable transmissions (IVTs)

Automated manual transmissions (AMTs)

New types of automatic transmission: manufacture and supply

Audi

BMW

Borg-Warner

Robert Bosch

DaimlerChrysler

Fiat Auto

Ford

General Motors

Honda

Mitsubishi

Nissan-JATCO

PSA Peugeot Citroën

Renault

Ricardo

Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industry)

Torotrak

Toyota-Aisin AW

Valeo

Volkswagen

Volvo

Xtrac

ZF

Innovative transmissions future market prospects

Chapter 5 The long-term prospect

A reducing need?

Hybrid vehicles

Electric vehicles

Electric traction effect on the transmission market

Chapter 6 Downstream of the gearbox

Other transmission components

Control of torque distribution

List of tables

Table 1: Total vehicle production by area (includes cars, light trucks and LCVs), 2002-2014 (000s)

Table 2: Manual transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

Table 3: Automatic transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

Table 4: CVT market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

Table 5: AMT (including twin-clutch) market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

Table 6: All innovative automatics market shares and volumes, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)

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