They can't possibly be identical.
(The hydraulic IVT that NASA was attracted to and the IVT that was created for NASA.)
The NASA tech on the table at the shareholder's meeting contained three electric motors, with one of them running in opposite directions (backwards). They hydraulic IVT is driven by only one motor running in a single direction. Actually, the motor is not part of the IVT in the Hydraulic unit. So keeping the electric motors out of the IVT for the NASA unit, one could wonder how they are the same. The motors in the NASA unit are part of the function, not the result.
If they were identical tech, there would not be any need for a swash plate in the hydraulic unit.
Is the variable speed controller in the NASA IVT supposed to be the same function as a swash plate in the original IVT?
Also, the sun/planetary gear system in the NASA IVT seems to be the same as the one being used in the hydraulic one that is pictured on the IHub header. However, isn’t that part of the Hydraulic one only used for an overdrive scenario for the Hydraulic IVT, and thus not part of the IVT, but only attached to the IVT.
Running motors in variable speeds with one running backwards, produces the IVT effect.
An electrical speed controller and a swash plate are significantly different IMO.
This results IMO a different tech, which I choose to call Torvec tech # 9.
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