Many of the parts, including engines, gearboxes and transmission equipment, are imported and assembled in India.
The automatic gearboxes so popular in America are an important source of energy losses.
And when you do that, you find one of the niftiest gearboxes on earth.
From 2013 completely new Chryslers, with improved engines and gearboxes based on Fiat's technology, will come to market.
However, new six-speed gearboxes should help, by matching the engine's speed more closely to the vehicle's road speed.
Citing a 2011 issue with corrosion on gearboxes, RBC noted Rolls Royce, the provider, solved it in weeks.
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Eurocopter said gearboxes should be monitored more closely and at more regular intervals.
Manufacturer Eurocopter has ordered extra safety checks and said gearboxes should be monitored more closely and at more regular intervals.
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In North America, the fleet buyers of large trucks dictate which engines, gearboxes or braking systems go in their trucks.
The rest comes from Regals gears, gearboxes and other power transmission equipment for cars, trains, boats and irrigation systems, plus electric motors and generators.
As a consequence, many manufacturers are going to wind turbines without gearboxes.
In March acquired Hansen Transmissions, Belgian maker of wind turbine gearboxes.
Gearboxes have traditionally been used to speed up the RPM from the rotor to the generator, but they are the weak link in the chain as you get larger.
The pair of motors, gearboxes and pulleys would then be used to provide assistance in two degrees of freedom, to help stroke victims slowly build back up their strength.
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Similarly, by adjusting the parameters of the mathematical model, it is possible to change the design of the virtual car, trying out different gearboxes and gear ratios, or adjusting the suspension.
Chrysler is somewhere between these extremes: it has 50, 000 workers (whose numbers include those making engines and gearboxes, unlike Fiat's) in ten factories in America, Canada and Mexico turning out 1.6m cars.
But beyond that, he is planning to build all Nissans and Renaults on the same ten or so platforms, sharing the basic floorpan that is the core of a car body and using a common range of engines, gearboxes and other parts.
We've seen this before: Cars like the Ferrari 575M on our list have clutchless manual gearboxes, derived from Formula 1-style systems, that let you shift via paddles that frame the steering wheel (pull the left paddle for downshifts, the right for upshifts).
The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
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