y Vermillion can be designed within a compact space while

ensuring that all transmission components, including complex

gear arrangements, can satisfy the safety-factor requirements that
are typical of modern machine design practice.
All of this work, among others, has been very useful for consid-
ering barriers that may be encountered when implementing
continuously variable-transmission-technology. Most of the work
described in this literature has focused on the control of the
continuously variable-transmission with an objective to either

optimize the engine efciency or to optimize the overall vehicle
efciency. While this is the ultimate objective for these transmis-
sions; this work has assumed that the transmission design is easily
achieved and therefore the design of intermediate pumps, motors,
and gearing is almost entirely neglected. This present paper is
aimed at considering the overall design of the transmission com-
ponents themselves. In other words, this paper teaches the reader
how to specify the gears, the pump, and the motor in order to
achieve a satisfactory level of adjustment for the overall transmis-
sion. The application for this design is given by a rear-wheel drive
automobile in which the existing transmission components
continue to be utilized.

Objectives. This research shows that an existing rear-wheel
drive vehicle may be easily retrotted with a continuously
variable-transmissio