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-square55fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up160arrow-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-square55fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVoyajer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 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-down4·11 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.