The Best Lubricant for CVT - Equipped Cars
The shifting regulatory environment and consumer preferences are forcing automobile manufacturers to reduce vehicular emissions and improve fuel economy. The UAEstandard for fuel efficiency set by the Ecological Footprint Initiative (EFI) has an objective to enhance UAE fleet's fuel efficiency from the current average of 12.1 km/l to 20.8 km/l by 2028, resulting in a reduction of carbon emissions. Therefore, automakers in the UAE are building smaller, lighter, more powerful and fuel-efficient engines to meet EFI's requirements.
To achieve the target fuel efficiency number, automakers recommend using durable, lower viscosity lubricants. These fluids are mostly made from synthetic base oils. Lubricant manufacturers, for their part, are formulating advanced lubricating fluids that improve fuel efficiency, protect the engine better and extend drain intervals. Cars equipped with the Continuously variable transmission (CVT), also known as a shiftless transmission, have a better fuel economy than conventional automatic transmissions.
Currently, CVTs are only used alongside smaller capacity engines because of their limited torque handling capacity. But the technology is evolving. Japanese and Korean car manufacturers are increasingly using CVTs in bigger cars. CVTs mechanically differentiate themselves from standard automatics by having a belt on a chain riding between two pulleys to increase fuel efficiency. But this arrangement gives rise to high steel-on-steel friction. So, they require lubricants different from automatic transmission fluids.
As the transmission technology becomes widely used and more cars with CVTs come out of warranty, there is a need for aftermarket CVT fluids.
Car mechanics service a variety of automatic transmissions, including a broad array of CVTs. Additionally, there are a number of fluid specifications dedicated to CVT service-fill applications. This complexity is what drove demand by car owners, professional mechanics, and garages for multi-vehicle ATFs and similar aftermarket CVT fluids.
To address this demand, Caltex is proud to announce Havoline® for the Middle East. It is a new and advanced service-fill CVT product for better performance and increased fuel economy. The lubricant has been developed over years and has undergone field testing and performance testing to meet the broadest possible range of critical CVT applications. Based on transmission tear-downs, Caltex Havoline has shown excellent performance, in some cases better than OEM factory-fill CVT fluids.
