September 12, 2006 One of the many inventions with which the extraordinary Leonardo da Vinci is credited is the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), a technology that has only just come into ...

Were the early CVTs that we saw in cars, especially in Nissans in the early 2000s, unreliable and weird to drive? Sure.

It’s a planetary gearset e-CVT though, like other Toyota hybrids? It is more interesting and central to the car’s operation than “a CVT” makes it sound. Journalists always complain about the ...

Continuously Variable Transmission. Those three words are guaranteed to strike dread in the heart of any gearhead who has ever enjoyed a slick-shifting manual transmission or a crisp-shifting ...

The components get assembled into a planetary gearhead with a roller chain replacing the traditional ring gear. They are assembled into a complete gearhead from Gearing Solutions. Durable gears for ...