Hybridized Manual Transmission: Opportunities and challenges of mild hybridization

摘要

Today's automotive industry is under transformation. This transformation is mainly driven by legal requirements, new technology trends, new customer preferences and their mobility behaviour. Propulsion electrification is a big contributor to solve new challenges. While combustion engine technology will be part of this future propulsion architecture e.g. in hybrids, manual transmissions are frequently claimed to become obsolete. On the other side, Opel as well as other car manufacturers still have a high penetration of manual transmissions in their current portfolio for good reasons like high efficiency, low cost, low weight, its proven technology and lower complexity compared to automatic transmissions. Combination of those attributes with a propulsion electrification technology leads to a hybrid version of a manual transmission that could be the successor of the conventional version.