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Toyota to offer manual gearbox in next-generation electric cars (www.autocar.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by i_am_not_a_robot to c/evs

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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?

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[–] PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Adding complexity............. Motherfuckers are adding electric tailgate and auto wipers and you are worried about the manual transmission.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know in the country I live in if you do your driving test with automatic then your license is only valid for an automatic. This law should probably be changed imo, but I can see it causing people to be hesitant to go in on an ev if it means they will likely only be able to drive it. For people who already have a license, it obviously isn't an issue if they are just getting a new car, but they are also looking at young first time buyers and new drivers.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The way I have usually seen in the past is that, if you get an automatic license you can only drive automatic. If you get a manual transmission license you can do both. Is this not how your country works? I don't know how this is relevant otherwise.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It is. That's what I was saying. Perhaps they are doing this for places that are hesitant to purchase a car that isn't manual, because they (or their kid when getting a license) would have a limited license with an automatic.

When we first moved here we got an automatic with low miles for super cheap, because no one wanted an automatic.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

America doesn’t work that way. But there’s so few manual cars now it doesn’t matter.

[–] tiny_tina_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

HEEEELLLLL YYEEESSSS

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can see a practical use for this if the simulation is as genuine as claimed. If a driver wants to learn how to drive stick it seems these cars can be used for teaching it without risking damage like that of gears grinding. They could learn how to use a clutch before starting to learn to drive a sports bike, for example.

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