A vehicle with connectable four-wheel drive. The vehicle includes an engine with a drive shaft; a pair of main drive wheels; a main transmission line which permanently connects the drive shaft to the main drive wheels, the main transmission line including a main gearbox and a main differential; a pair of normally driven secondary drive wheels; and a connectable secondary transmission line for connecting the drive shaft also to the secondary drive wheels and having a geared transmission, at least one secondary clutch which on one side is connected to the drive shaft upstream of the main gearbox and on the other side is connected to the secondary drive wheels, and a continuously variable transmission which is controlled electronically to vary its transmission ratio in a continuous manner between two limit values without ever interrupting the transmission of the driving torque.


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    Title :

    Vehicle with connectable four-wheel drive


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2017-03-07


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60K Anordnung oder Einbau von Antriebseinheiten oder von Kraft- bzw. Drehmomentübertragungen in Fahrzeugen , ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES



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