Tata Motors' automated manual transmission (AMT) will soon be integrated into all of its products in due course, including other petrol models and the Tata Nano, Tim Leverton, President and Head-Advanced & Product Engineering, has said.
A report on The Business Line quotes him in saying that the AMT gearbox is in tune with what the company has been hearing from its customers and that it is a feature they want.
The AMT was first announced during the unveiling of the Tata Zest prior to the Auto Expo 2014. At the Auto Expo, the company had showcased a cutaway version of the Tata Nano Twist featuring an F-Tronic five-speed AMT gearbox.
It maybe that there are two AMT gearboxes under consideration. The one on the Tata Nano Twist was supplied by Italian vendor Magneti Marelli. The attached press release said that the Tata Nano Twist features an electro-hydraulic mechanism which uses an electronic control unit and a hydraulic system to supervise clutch usage and gear shifting. Leverton in his interview that the AMT would be a single clutch with an hydraulic actuator.
Leverton also explains that in the AMT, the driver can either choose a fully automatic mode or a mode where he can shift gears manually.
[Source - The Business Line]
