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Automotive News Europe, January, 2006
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A CVT does not use toothed gears to transmit power. Rather, a belt transmits power from one pulley to another. The gear ratio changes when the two halves of each pulley move together or apart.
A CVT operates like an automatic transmission but with an improvement of about 10 percent in fuel economy.
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