Well actually, Crystal, unless RJ is telling porkies, I am right – Mazda needed Torotrak patents to build their (half-toroidal) gearbox. They wouldn’t have done this if they didn’t have to, hence Torotrak patents are (in their opinion, not mine) vital for building a toroidal gearbox. Agreed it’s speculation as to whether they could circumvent them, but it’s not speculation that they would either have to or agree a deal with Torotrak. Or wait twenty years until they expire.
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I'm sure you are right, but it does not fill me with confidence if the whole TRK bulletin board on ADVFN and Ample can only suggest I read all 400 patents, or wonder why I didn't leave my money in the very capable hands of "Eminem".
I think you are making fun a little of my scepticism, but the price is now about 1/5 of what it was when I started watching. If I were to buy at about 20p during tracker fund selling over the next few months, invested £10,000, and the shares ever reach £2, then my scepticism would have earned me £80,000 (compared with buying £10,000 @ £1 and having £20,000 in the future instead of £100,000).
I do not need to calculate oil pump losses for an Antonov transmission. Their 6-speed losses are in their Paris motorshow documentation and are moreorless (from memory):
Clutches 2.5%
Gears 5.5%
Oil-Pump 1% (45 litres per minute at 5 bar)
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Total losses 9%
Hence Efficiency ~ 91%
So where are the official Torotrak figures? Are these in the 400 patents I have to read as homework?
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