rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de to Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoToyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven itarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkToyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven itarstechnica.comrikonium@discuss.tchncs.de to Cars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVoyajer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoYou won’t gain anything meaningful from an overdrive with electric motors, they don’t need to be kept in a small rpm band to not lose efficiency
minus-squareBallShapedMan@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·11 months agoOverdrive puts the engine in a lower RPM band which would save the battery I feel like. Plus a few cars have em.
You won’t gain anything meaningful from an overdrive with electric motors, they don’t need to be kept in a small rpm band to not lose efficiency
Overdrive puts the engine in a lower RPM band which would save the battery I feel like. Plus a few cars have em.