The UK based automatic transmission specialist Antonov has received the IDTechEx Electric Vehicles Land Sea Air ‘Technology Award’ presented for the most significant EV technical development over the past two years. Unlike other awards these encompass all land, sea and air electric vehicles, concentrating on technical breakthroughs worldwide.

The automatic transmission specialist Antonov - which is based at Warwick in the UK and has a new manufacturing plant under construction at Chongqing in China - has obtained further evidence that the energy efficiency of an electric vehicle equipped with its multispeed transmission is higher than with a single speed gearbox. Comparative studies by the company over eight different drive cycles suggest that the transmission delivers typically 10 ...