Comment on Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality

• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A lot of cars have CVTs. No changing gears on those.

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• Ozymandias1688@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  not necessarily. Toyota uses planetary gears which also change transmission without discrete “gear shifting”. Although going fully EV removes that necessity of course.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Planetary gears have been used in automatic transmissions for as long as they have existed. I think you’re thinking of CVTs.

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    • Ozymandias1688@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, exactly! Thanks!

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t think you understand. Planetary gears have nothing to do with how the vehicle shifts.

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