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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's actually a good point I hadn't considered.