World share of automatic gearboxes
- Automatic transmissions account for 55% of the global market in 2017, compared to 45% in 2007. Largely in majority in the US market since the early 1960s, cars equipped with automatic boxes flooded the Japanese market in the 70s. Even today the United States and Japan remain the most equipped markets in automatic gearboxes (95% and 90% respectively ). The Chinese market that started in the 2000s quickly became the third market equipped with automatic transmission at 60%.
- Europe has always had a certain reluctance to adopt this type of equipment (price, consumption, maintenance) but there has been a real evolution over the last ten years, since in 2017, nearly 30% of the cars sold in Europe are equipped with an automatic gearbox, vs. 15% in 2007. In France, this rate even tripled during the same period.
- Here are the different types of automatic boxes today:
1. classic automatic gearbox with a torque converter. This is the most common (30% of the world market).
2. robotised double clutch gearbox with two half-boxes placed in parallel.
3. single clutch robotised gearbox with a clutch driven by electromechanical actuators.
4. CVT gearbox with belt and pulleys to modulate the transmission ratio.
5. boxes specific to hybrid cars (variator) or electric cars (reducer ).
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