In addition to its use in road vehicles, the Ecomat transmission is also employed in the Class 172 lightweight diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains in service with various operators in Great Britain and in major refurbishments of ČD Class 842 in the Czech Republic.
In 2000, the Toronto Transit Commission started to retrofit New Flyer's 1990 D40HF buses from the ZF ECOMAT 500 transmission due to failures.