The efficiency of transport and technological machines is largely determined by the magnitude of the translational speed of the executive working units. The purpose of the research is to evaluate the efficiency of transport and technological machines, mobile units with kinematic autonomy of their components. Machine units, in which mobile power means, the implement frame and the executive working units have kinematic autonomy, differ in the directions of movement, their shift in time and space, and the magnitude of speed. The multi-channel power take-off of the power plant, the time-shifted process of entry into operation of the components of the mobile unit, executive working units, and the use of a wheeled propulsion device with a built-in differential contribute to achieving the goal. In a wheel differential, the points of application of vertical load, longitudinal pushing force and driving torque are separated from the axis of rotation of the propulsion unit. A combined soil-cultivating working unit - a mechanism with a spring mole handler, self-adapting to changes in the longitudinal hardness of the soil by automatically changing the geometric dimensions, a wheel differential contributes to the smooth acceleration of the mobile unit, preventing its engine from reaching overload mode, allowing you to control the pressure in the contact patch of the wheel with the supporting surface. The process of interaction of the modernized wheel with the supporting surface is influenced by the gear ratio of the built-in gearbox and the automatic switching of its operating mode. The research methodology is based on a systematic analysis of factors that have a cause-and-effect relationship with the quality and energy performance of mobile units and their wheeled propulsors. The advantages of a transport-technological unit with kinematic autonomy of its components are the formation of additional tangential force and torque on the propulsion unit, automatic change of the gear ratio of the built-in wheel gearbox, smooth starting of the unit, prevention of slipping of the propulsion units and the engine entering overload mode. In connection with the above, all other things being equal, the required power of the internal combustion engines of transport and technological machines with kinematic autonomy of the components can be reduced by 8-10%.