Brace Yourselves: 11-Speed Triple Clutch Gearboxes Are On The Way
We’ve only just wrapped our heads around the idea of nine and 10-speed automatic gearboxes, but manufacturers are far from done when it comes to adding new ratios.
Last year news emerged that Honda had patented an 11-speed, triple clutch transmission, and now Car is reporting that General Motors is proposing its own 11-speed ‘box.
Like the Honda unit, the GM gearbox has three clutches, and it has two reverse ratios in addition to the 11 forward gears. GM already produces a 10-speed transmission (below), currently seeing service in everything from the Chevrolet Tahoe to the Camaro ZL1.
Ford and Lexus also have 10-speed ‘boxes and Mercedes now has a nine-speed unit across much of its range, so what’s behind the new obsession with offering a mountain bike-like selection of cogs to choose from? As you’d probably expect, it’s all about efficiency.
More cogs makes it easier for the ever more clever gearbox control units to keep the engine speed at the most efficient point possible, whatever speed you’re doing. This new generation of 11-speeders will apparently be good for a five per cent fuel economy improvement, amid worldwide efforts to drastically reduce carbon emissions by 2025.
What are your thoughts on the incoming wave of many-cogged gearboxes? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section…
Source: Car
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
May as well just throw in a 45-speed gearbox with a couple dozen clutches from a lorry at this point. -_-
Trucks only go to 20 and that’s only in Macks
At this rate we’ll have 65-speed, 26 clutch transmissions by 2030.
But secretly, Honda is testing 11 Gears on their F1 cars..
A good gearbox can’t save a crap engine. Honda, please stick to what you’re best at and make a new S2000.
Im guessing Dom’s advertising campaign is working well…
He had a 12-speed manual though? 🤔
Fast and Furious begins to intensify…
Imagine the muscles you will build in your daily if they offered such gearboxes for manuals.
ROW ROW ROW ROW ROW
“Why is your left arm bigger than your left?”
“Because I’m constantly shifting gears when I’m driving my daily, bro”
With 11 ratios, they would all be very close, so you’d probably end up skipping ratios
we have seen it with trucks
in europe most (if not all) semi trucks have 12 gears
what happens is most of them (especially 1st ones) are skipped
a volvo fh with automatic gearbox at full throttle and full load would go like 4-7-9-10-11-12
Vtec would be kicking in a lot then…
instead of vtec kicked in we would say
vtec kicked out yo
You know maybe FnF was onto something
Yeeee
Clutchy Mctripleclutch