Hybrid Transmission Design

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710 is right.

Long about turn of the century, Ford and Toyota both independently, without collaboration, developed nearly identical eCVT transmissions.

More evidence it was the correct way to do it.
Toyota hit the open market first.
But the two sides met like adults. Both agreeing it was the ideal transmission for a Hybrid.

While Toyota got the patent first, in a very gentlemanly agreement, Toyota let Ford use it. In return, Ford let Toyota use one/some of it's patent(s). I think it was Ford tech for anti-lock brakes.

But I'm going off memory from 20 years ago. May have been slightly different.

Bottom line: no one got sued and both sides got something.

Yep. There were a few dozen patents swapped between them and actually the video above shows that the current design employed by Toyota actually closely copies Ford's parallel axis (two offset electric motors) transaxle design.

Toyota used to use an inline axis dual motor transaxle.

The point is - the idea that Ford employ's Toyota technology is incorrect.

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