08.23.2007

Fallbrook Technologies Inc., a pioneering technology development company, announced today that its NuVinci Continuously Variable Planetary (CVP) transmission  has won a R&D 100 Award as one of the most significant new technologies worldwide of 2007. The CVP is sold today for use in bicycles (and has won two major awards in Europe), will soon to appear on light electric vehicles, and later on larger apps like cars, trucks, and even wind power turbines.

Past R&D 100 Awards have recognized products such as Polacolor film (1963), the automated teller machine (ATM) (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (LCD) (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), and HDTV (1998).

Rob Smithson - VP of Product Development, Doug Feicht - Senior Engineer and Jeremy Carter - Program Manager all graduated from the MSSTC Program.

Article on the award: NuVinci on The Auto Channel