Hello,
This is my first post on this board, although it’s one I’ve kept an eye on over time. As an investor in tech stocks, I like to keep up with what other people are doing.
I’m always rather surprised that there seems to be little knowledge here of what is going on in the world of transmissions, or even the state of readiness of Torvec itself. The following is simply how I see things presently and is not meant to be a criticism in any way, if for no other reason than manufactures are secretive about their plans and nobody has a clear overview of the whole market.
The entire transmission industry has for some years been aware that fundamental changes are on the way and they have all been seeking their own solution to better performance and efficiency. It is simply not true that they are some sort of dinosaur, unaware of what is about to hit them. They are all aware of CVT and IVT as well as other solutions such as with Antonov, Zeroshift, dual clutch and many others.
CVT for instance has been in production for many years and despite its drawbacks technically, is very popular in countries such as Japan. IVT is still developing, but amongst others is being worked on by:
Aisin. The world’s largest transmission manufacturer has been working on IVT for years with a team of up to sixty people.
Jatco. The world’s second largest transmission manufacturer has its own design of IVT and is currently building a factory in Mexico to produce these.
Getrag. Another in the top ten has publicly stated that it sees IVT as the future and has a large team working on it.
There are others, but perhaps the above are the most advanced.
I read that Torvec is considered to be ‘production ready’. I would like to see a definition of this.
A working prototype is a start, but only that. Ford and GM for instance would need to work on such a prototype for years even before it was considered ‘concept ready’ by them. Once past the concept ready stage, there would then be another period of years working on production readiness. Once that stage has been reached, a decision then has to be taken to go into production, which would then take a further three years before the first models rolled off the line.
That is how it is in the automotive industry. If anyone thinks differently, perhaps they could explain why.
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