Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

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 ...

Electric motors have a pretty wide rev range, they produce a bunch of torque at low rpm and they're sufficiently efficient across that rev band. For that reason, most EVs make do with a single-speed ...

Drivers who keep vehicles past 150,000 miles already know the transmission is often the first major system to fail, turning a paid-off car into a repair bill that can exceed the vehicle’s value. Two ...

The PowerLine 8 transmission from ZF is new to North America but more than 15 million copies are currently running all over Europe and Asia. Medium-duty truck builders will soon have a groundbreaking ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — Equipment and technology supplier ZF showcased a hybrid-electric version of a heavy-duty automated transmission along with all-electric steering and power options that the ...

ZF Friedrichshafen AG has opened its first plant for automatic passenger car transmissions in the U.S. Located in South Carolina, ZF Transmissions Gray Court, LLC (ZFTG) is the manufacturing site of ...

Fabrication of the first sinter-brazed powder metal (PM) planetary carrier in a ZF automatic transmission resulted in a component that optimized design features and exceeded material specifications ...