Global market review of automotive transmissions - forecasts to 2014

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 Citroen
• 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 Citroen
• 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)