Automobile production - continuously variable transmission forecast
The timeline shows a continuously variable transmission forecast for automobile production worldwide from 2010 to 2015. In 2010, about 5.82 million cars and light vehicles produced worldwide were equipped with a continuously variable transmission. It is forecast that this number will increase to about 8.5 million automobiles produced worldwide in 2015. A continuously variable transmission (abbreviated as CVT) is a transmission that can change steplessly through an infinite number of effective gear ratios between maximum and minimum values. This is a contrast to other mechanical transmissions that offer a fixed number of gear ratios.