Eaton coast mode

There is another problem with shifting to neutral. You must always have some power to the drives. If you do not, you are going to set up for a jack knife one of two ways and in a hurry.

 

Saving fuel is great however I have some mental glitches with some things.
First is all the EGR, DEF, and SCR systems plus ethanol. I have no desire to harm the earth but question what we are really saving. I will not stretch it out but most of these things consume fossil fuel to produce. I was ecstatic about ethanol at first but it has cost others and myself a lot of money. If most of those systems were removed or altered to produce optimum engine performance would the over all result not be better?
Second is the EPA, computer nerds, and environmentalists always know better than the rest of the world. Nerd makes a transmission that shifts to neutral in order to save fuel? If we shift to neutral taking a drivers test we fail.

 

coast and neutral are completely different
you touch the fuel or brake it is in gear
you put the jake on it is in gear

 

What is the motor with this transmission?

 

Any heavy truck engine mated to an Eaton UltraShift Plus transmission can have this feature, if the vehicle manufacturer chooses to enable it.

I'm driving a 2016 Kenworth T680, with a Paccar engine mated to an Eaton UltraShift Plus transmission, and Kenworth has enabled this feature. They call it "Kenworth Neutral Coast Mode". At first, I thought there was something wrong with the powertrain control computer, because the 2014 T680 I was driving before didn't do this. But, a little research taught me this is a new feature.

I can't believe this would cause any driving problems, such as a jack-knife - it's almost imperceptible. In fact, the only reason I noticed it in the first place was because I kept hearing the engine rev up a couple hundred rpms when it was upshifting. It requires no driver intervention whatsoever.

 

With Detroit, their AMT DT12 has a feature called eCoast that basically shifts into "N" going down a hill and allows you to speed past your set speed. Then the engine idles at 500 rpms (the lowest it can go) But you need PCC in order for this feature to work.