FAW Jiefang CA10TAX130S Wins 9th World’s Top 10 Transmission Award

Recently, the rigorous real-vehicle testing and expert evaluation session of the 2025 World’s Top 10 Powertrain System Selection, hosted by the China Automotive Evaluation Research Institute, grandly concluded in Beijing, China. As a highly anticipated annual event in the global automotive powertrain industry, this selection focuses on cutting-edge transmission technology, innovative structural design, energy-saving efficiency and comprehensive vehicle adaptation performance, aiming to recognize outstanding powertrain products with leading technology, reliable quality and market practical value worldwide. In this fierce global competition with numerous participating brands and cutting-edge products, FAW Jiefang CA10TAX130S 10-speed transmission stood out among countless competing products with its outstanding comprehensive performance, excellent structural optimization and industry-leading transmission efficiency, officially winning the prestigious honor of the 9th "World’s Top 10 Transmission". This authoritative award once again strongly proves FAW Jiefang’s deep technical accumulation and strong independent research and development strength in the commercial vehicle transmission field, and also marks that Jiefang’s core powertrain components have reached the world-class advanced level.

The 2025 World’s Top 10 Powertrain System Evaluation activity gathers top-tier powertrain enterprises, core component suppliers and technical research institutions from all over the world, building a professional, open and international exchange and competition platform for the global commercial vehicle and passenger vehicle powertrain industry. To ensure the fairness, professionalism and authority of the entire selection process, the organizing committee has invited a high-standard expert judging panel composed of senior professors, doctoral supervisors and industry chief technical experts from well-known top universities and scientific research institutions, including Tsinghua University, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences. All judging experts have long been engaged in the research of automotive power transmission, mechanical structure design, new energy vehicle powertrain matching and automotive energy efficiency optimization, with profound theoretical foundation and rich practical engineering experience.

Different from ordinary commodity selection, this world-class powertrain evaluation adopts a full-cycle and multi-dimensional assessment mechanism, combining professional laboratory data detection, closed-road real-vehicle dynamic testing and all-scenario actual working condition simulation. The evaluation content covers core hard indicators such as load-bearing capacity, transmission efficiency, structural stability, noise and vibration control, service life and fuel economy, as well as comprehensive subjective evaluation items including driving smoothness, gear shifting response speed, vehicle power matching rationality and driving comfort. Every participating product needs to go through hundreds of professional test items and repeated data verification, with extremely strict scoring standards and elimination thresholds.

In the whole test and evaluation process, FAW Jiefang 10-speed transmission (CA10TAX130S) delivered an impressive performance in both objective professional data testing and professional expert subjective scoring. In terms of core mechanical performance indicators, the product showed stable and excellent adaptability under complex working conditions such as heavy load climbing, long-distance high-speed driving, frequent start-stop and urban and rural road switching. Its excellent structural rigidity and anti-fatigue design effectively cope with the harsh operating environment of medium-duty commercial vehicles, reducing component wear and failure risks in long-term high-intensity operation. Meanwhile, the optimized gear shifting logic and precision manufacturing process realize rapid, stable and smooth gear switching, effectively avoiding gear shifting jitter and power interruption, greatly improving the overall driving experience of the vehicle, and winning high recognition and unanimous praise from all expert judges.

FAW Jiefang CA10TAX130S 10-speed transmission is independently developed and designed for medium-duty commercial vehicle market demand, focusing on high load-bearing, high efficiency, high reliability and fuel-saving economy, fully adapting to the diversified transportation scenarios of modern logistics and freight industry. In terms of core parameter configuration, this high-performance transmission is equipped with powerful load-bearing and high-efficiency power transmission capabilities. It supports a maximum input torque of 1300N·m and a maximum input speed of 2500rpm, with a scientific gear structure layout of 10 forward gears and 2 reverse gears. The reasonable gear ratio setting realizes fine power output regulation, taking into account low-speed climbing torque performance and high-speed cruising fuel-saving performance, perfectly balancing vehicle dynamic performance and economic performance.

In terms of power matching and overall powertrain coordination, this Jiefang self-developed transmission achieves highly integrated and efficient collaborative matching with FAW Jiefang self-developed CA6DK2 high-performance engine. The supporting CA6DK2 engine has a peak torque of 1300N·m and a rated power of 262kW, with strong power reserve and excellent low-torque explosion performance. After professional calibration and adaptive optimization, the matching combination of CA10TAX130S transmission and CA6DK2 engine realizes seamless power connection and efficient energy conversion. The comprehensive transmission efficiency of the whole powertrain assembly reaches up to 97.3%, which greatly reduces energy loss during power transmission, effectively reduces vehicle fuel consumption and operating costs for logistics enterprises and individual truck owners.

Focusing on the actual market application scenarios, medium-duty trucks are widely used in urban distribution, regional freight, agricultural transportation, engineering material transportation and other fields, with complex and changeable working conditions and high requirements for vehicle component durability and adaptability. Relying on FAW Jiefang’s decades of professional manufacturing experience in the commercial vehicle industry, the CA10TAX130S transmission adopts high-strength alloy materials, precision forging process and advanced heat treatment technology in key components such as gears, shafts and synchronizers. The overall structural design is compact and reasonable, with strong impact resistance and overload resistance. Whether it is long-distance cross-region continuous transportation or short-distance frequent loading and unloading operation, it can maintain stable and reliable operation, reduce vehicle maintenance frequency and later use cost, and create higher economic benefits for end users.

As the core component of commercial vehicles, the performance level of transmission directly determines the vehicle’s power performance, fuel economy, driving stability and service life. Facing the global dual-carbon goal and the upgrading trend of the green and low-carbon logistics industry, FAW Jiefang has always taken independent technological innovation as the core driving force for enterprise development, continued to increase R&D investment in core key components such as engines, transmissions and axles, and built a full-industry chain independent R&D and manufacturing system for commercial vehicle powertrain. The successful winning of the "World’s Top 10 Transmission" award this time is not only a high recognition of Jiefang’s current technical achievements by the authoritative industry, but also an important milestone for FAW Jiefang to further deepen the layout of high-efficiency green power technology.

At present, FAW Jiefang high-efficiency transmission products represented by CA10TAX130S have been widely equipped on Jiefang medium-duty truck models, helping global users achieve efficient transportation and low-cost operation with excellent comprehensive performance. In the future, FAW Jiefang will continue to focus on user needs and industry development trends, continue to iterate and upgrade powertrain product technology, further optimize transmission efficiency, intelligent gear shifting control, lightweight design and environmental protection performance, launch more high-quality, high-efficiency and high-reliability core component products, and provide strong and reliable overall transportation solutions for global commercial vehicle users.

With excellent product strength, rigorous manufacturing standards and forward-looking technical layout, FAW Jiefang will continue to deepen its global market layout, rely on world-class core powertrain technology, enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese commercial vehicles, and contribute more strength to the high-quality development of the global commercial vehicle industry and green low-carbon transportation transformation.