2023-06-16 23:30:51
Some people think that electric cars are a bit boring, and for this, Toyota engineers are working to integrate a manual transmission into electric cars as a potential feature to attract different categories of customers.
A manual transmission serves no purpose whatsoever in an electric vehicle, but its purpose will be to provide pleasure for the driver and give more control to the driving experience.
Despite Toyota’s long-standing reservations about electric cars, it is now planning a more powerful push in this sector, as it tries to attract all types of consumers. So an unnecessary feature like “manual transmission” may be attractive to the kind of consumer who doesn’t prefer the smoothness and simplicity of driving electric cars.
Even most of today’s gasoline-powered cars are equipped with automatic transmissions, and manual transmissions are rarely offered as options on performance cars or on very cheap cars.
Most electric cars only have a single speed transmission; Because its fast-revving electric motors don’t need additional assistance from different gears, Toyota plans to connect the transmission with sensors and a central computer programmed to mimic the feel of a car with a manual transmission, and the driver will get the clutch pedal in addition to the usual accelerator and brake pedals.
In the event of choosing the wrong gear or failing to press the accelerator pedal sufficiently, the car will vibrate significantly, as is the case in cars that operate with manual transmissions, but the car’s computer will limit its vibration in this case, to avoid stress on the battery.
The presence of this feature will not prevent the driver from using the car normally, as the car will have two driving modes, a manual mode and a normal electric car mode.
Some reports about the technology said the cars would have fake engine sounds to go along with all the shifting and acceleration actions, although the patent application didn’t say that.
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