Valtra's N and T tractors now boast new powershift and CVT transmissions, designed in-house by the Finnish company and unveiled early last year. Emily Padfield drove the flagship T202 Direct and Versu models
How can they say that fuel economy is a reason to choose CVT? It's always and everywhere less fuel efficient than a mechanical box, since CVT is a less direct approach to delivering torque. Lots of complicated moving parts and slushing around of oil in the box. This should be true for all makes of tractor out there. I would choose Versu or powershift, or even more preferably the Hitech mechanical box for all sorts of heavy draught work, simply because of durability and fuel efficiency. Even more so if the tractor is boosted. CVT only has one edge, and that is smooth shifting/no shifting, plus accurate creeping in front lift work etc.
Im not sure of this in Valtra tractors but, normally the CVT transmissions used on tractors are very different form the widely known inefficient belt CVT used in cars and other light vehicles. Tractors normally use a mix of mechanical and hydrostatic power multi range trasmission.
Ignafiltro Sanchez You are right, but that's exactly the wasteful part of tractor CVTs, the hydrostatic half of the transmission. Fluid based systems always give way under torque in the adjustment phase. Belt variators are of course even worse. That's why it seems to me only a half truth to claim CVTs are more fuel efficient. They are in the sense that the engine and the gear ratio can seamlessly adjust to operate in the most efficient combination, but in terms of the actual mechanics, they can not be.
Why has this gray tractor got 2 mufflers?Have never seen this on a produciton before.Have seen lime green Steiger tractors with air cleaners on both of the cab.Valtra is owned by a American company called AGCO
Is Valtra a "manufacturer?" I thought they stuck together an AGCO engine in front of a ZF transmission with some different plastic and sheet metal stuck on top...
