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I don’t really see the point of this. It’s just adding complexity for the sake of it. As far as I can tell when you change gear it just changes some software parameters, there are no physical gears. Yet there’s a clutch and the ability to stall?

    • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      They also add a delay between “gears” because there was too many complaints that the vehicles wasn’t changing gears.

      Yeah people are stupid.

        • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The paddle shifters have a usecase, it allows you to select portions of the cvt to increase acceleration or reduce road noise. The point of the cvt is to keep the vehicle at the most efficient rpm for fuel, which unfortunately is rather high and noisy.

      • ChrisOPMEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know about trailers, but my EV makes light work of mountains.

        • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Is my comment showing up as a reply to the one about CVTs with paddle shifts because that’s what it’s in reference to. I feel like kbin has been putting my replys in the wrong places.

          With all the trque and regen EVs should be fine in hills even with trailers.

          • ChrisOPMEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Isn’t that what the brakes are for?

            • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
              12·
              1 year ago

              On a long down hill if you use your brakes too much you risk brake fade and glazing. With electric you need regen or if you have no more room in the battery then you need resistive braking. With an ICE you need to be able to lock into a lower gear. Standard behavior eith a cvt is to gear as high as possible when not under load so you need “manual mode” and the fake gears to pick a ratio with good resistence.