Transmissions panorama – Automated Manual Transmissions positioning for the next years

Abstract: To face the challenges of the car industry, the possibilities that have the car manufacturers on the transmissions is one of their major tools. After several decades during which cohabited the manual and automatic transmissions, a new family appeared, the Automated Manual Transmissions (AMT), which offers a new balance of performances and price. The new PSA Peugeot-Citroen automated manual transmissions, called MCp, confirms that a new transmission family now exists for the next years, between the two existing ones, thanks to its performances and its large production . Keywords: Transmissions panorama, Automated Manual Transmission

The transmission has also an impact on the comfort of the driver (level of delegation, efforts of handling, comfort during gearshifts) According to the chosen transmission technology, the impact will be strong on the vehicle technical specifications and the price on the one hand, and on the facility to optimize the exploitation of factories on the other hand, by using possible synergies. The strategies that each car manufacturer will take during the next years will have thus a very big impact on the market of the transmissions for the next decade 2. Transmissions panorama – the stakes 2.1 The transmissions families For several decades, the market of the transmissions has been divided into two families, according to the level of delegation by the driver: • Manual transmissions • Automatic transmissions

1. Introduction The car industry must face several major stakes that the car manufacturers must take up: • To make progress in automobile technical specifications and performances, for customers increasingly more demanding (fuel consumption, comfort, performances) • To be able to answer to the always more increasing emissions regulations • To propose attractive prices to be competitive • As well as possible, to use the industrial