Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven it (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de to c/cars@lemmy.world

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It sounds bizarre but I want to try it.

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[-] JulyTheMonth@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The traditional reason for a manual was fuel and oil efficiency which was kinda miserable when automatic transmissions came up. However this reason has been long turned around where automatics are certainly more efficient.

Even in europe manual usage is dwindling.

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023

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