Product Highlights
Tomorrow’s technology
As an industry leader, we continually leverage our technical expertise and creative potential in developing and bringing to market future technologies that meet the highest standards: lower fuel consumption and greater resource conservation without sacrificing optimal driving dynamics or enhanced safety for drivers and passengers.
9-Speed Automatic Transmission
Under high pressure - ZF is working on the development of new fuel-efficient transmission generations. The latest innovation: an entirely new automatic passenger car transmission, developed with 9 gears for vehicles with a transverse engine.
Economy with increased performance – ZF once again shows the automotive world that these two attributes aren’t mutually exclusive: ZF is the world’s first transmission manufacturer to have developed a modern automatic passenger car transmission with nine gears. It is intended for vehicles with a transversely mounted front engine and thus fits into 80 percent of all cars manufactured worldwide. The transmission does not replace the current longitudinally mounted 8-speed automatic transmission but rather is designed for the installation conditions of transverse to the direction of travel.
8HP - 8-Speed Innovation Wonder
ZF has developed a new automatic car transmission with 8 speeds, which enables savings of up to 22 percent over the 5-speed automatic transmission still widely available. To achieve this new benchmark in automatic car transmissions, ZF engineers set the bar high. The second generation of ZF’s 6-speed transmission (6HP), just released in 2006, set standards for fuel savings that were difficult to top. But the new 8-speed automatic transmission (8HP) achieves a further 11 percent in fuel savings and thus make a clear contribution to cutting CO2 emissions. There are many innovations that play a part here: the completely new transmission concept with four planetary gear sets and only two open shift elements, a higher overall gear ratio, a variable oil pump, new torque converters, and optimized hydraulic and transmission control. A stop-start function is available as an add-on option, automatically turning off the engine when the vehicle comes to a halt and restarting it and the transmission when the brake is released.
All information and technical data on the new 8 HP is available on our corporate Web site, www.zf.com (in English only).
AS Tronic - Automatically Saving Power
Economy is more important than ever for freight forwarders and fleet operators. For this reason, financial attention is increasingly focusing on the drive train. Innovative transmission systems must pay off in the long run. As does the AS Tronic transmission series. Ten years ago, this automatic transmission system set a milestone in driveline development. Today, AS Tronic transmissions are available for all commercial vehicle classes.
Whether for long-distance hauling, international distribution or city delivery services, ZF’s AS Tronic, AS Tronic mid and AS Tronic lite provide just the right transmission for the job.
You can find more background information on the No. 1 automatic transmission system on our corporate Web site (in English only).
ZF Hybrid Systems
Efficient solutions
Hybrid transmissions save fuel, conserve resources and thus significantly reduce CO2 emissions. But efficient propulsion is another advantage of ZF's new, intelligent hybrid solutions: They are economical, practical and ready for series production. And so hybrid systems that push forward all applications – from cars and trucks to buses and vans right through to rail and special-purpose vehicles – are possible.
You can find all information on hybrid solutions and systems from ZF on our global corporate Web site (in English).
EcoLife - The Economic Breakthrough
Changed requirements in public transport, growing competition, and rising fuel prices continually require new ways of thinking in the field of bus driveline technology. More and more people are to be transported in increasingly shorter times. City buses become larger, vehicle combination weights higher, engines more powerful. The suitable ZF automatic transmission: EcoLife. The 6-speed transmission can transfer torques of up to 2,000 newton meters and resists also operating temperatures of modern Euro 5 engines or future engine generations.
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