Pretty much all mainstream electric cars integrate their electric motors with single-speed, often 10:1-ish gear reductions, mostly because it's cheap and easy, and it works. But now, the German ...

ZF presents its new 140 kW 2-speed drive unit for electric cars (scalable up to 250 kW), which consists of an electric motor, 2-speed transmission and power electronics - all integrated into a compact ...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles last week inked a deal with ZF for one of the biggest orders of automatic transmissions in the German firm's history. Normally the purchase of automatic transmissions ...

GRAY COURT, South Carolina—After ZF’s first PowerLine 8-speed automatic transmission rolled off the production line in late 2023, the company expects to produce 200,000 this year, the German-based ...

The ZF eight-speed transmission (ZF 8HP) debuted in 2008 when it replaced its six-speed sibling in the F01 BMW 7 Series. Today, with 17 years of consistent use under its belt, the ZF 8HP is considered ...

The arrival of nine-speed automatic transmissions—with some hiccups in tuning—in several mass-market models this past year has led some to wonder whether more speeds is necessarily a step forward.

At two separate events recently, ZF publicly confirmed rumours that it is developing a new 8-speed automatic transmission, for launch in 2010. This follows the introduction by Mercedes-Benz of its ...