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Kiwi Inventor Shows off Revolutionary Transmission (Video)

Submitted by GregR on April 23, 2009 3 Comments

Kiwi Inventor Bill Martin shows off his revolutionary vehicle transmission that gets the efficiency of the manual (stick) and the smoothness of the Automatic transmission.

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Val from Zerogifts says:

April 26, 2009 at 4:58 am

Great concept, basically he removed the clutch and invented automatic transmission with the efficiency of the manual. It’s not that environmentally friendly but it is cost saving.

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kiwibloke says:

April 26, 2009 at 12:23 pm

@Val: I agree that it is not a big change, but any incremental improvement in mpg over a large number of cars is a very big benefit. If we can make small improvements they add up to large improvements.

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Kate says:

April 22, 2010 at 6:37 am

It is not surprising that the automobile of such a high class has this revolutionary transmission – it matches the tremendjous power of this vehicle.
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