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Toyota Is Every Day Trying to Innovate with Its Electric Cars and This Time Plans to Include a Manual Transmission So That Electric Car Lovers Feel the Same Sensation of a Combustion Vehicle
Many companies have tried to include a manual transmission in electric vehicles, but none have actually reached production, except for Porsche and Audi, which managed to include them in electric vehicles like the Porsche Taycan and the Audi E-Tron GT. However, Toyota also plans to go this route, as announced in the patents registered by the automaker. It appears that the Japanese company plans to go further by installing a solution similar to what is done when converting a combustion model to electric, but maintaining the manual gearbox.
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Usually, these electric vehicle conversions are left in just one gear, which varies depending on the motor specifications and maximum RPMs, so it is not necessary to use a clutch since there is really no need to shift gears.
Toyota posted some patent diagrams (image above) that seem complicated at first glance; however, it is just a simple version of what the automaker plans to do with electric cars.
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The company’s manual transmission will feature a special controller that changes the motor’s torque, aiming to feel more like a gasoline engine. The idea appears to offer a real clutch pedal that the driver needs to press to shift gears, using a manual transmission, although the text refers to them as “pseudo-transmission” and “pseudo-clutch pedal,” implying that they are not really necessary and their role is to replicate the feeling and fun of a manual transmission in electric vehicles.
Understand How Toyota’s Transmission for Electric Cars Will Work
The electric vehicle controller is configured to manage the torque of the motor using a model based on the manual transmission, relying on the intensity of pressing the accelerator, the intensity of the pseudo-clutch pedal, and the movement position of the pseudo-calibrator used by the reaction force actuator operation.
The controller receives a setting to store the characteristic of displacement reaction force simulating the characteristic of that force according to the operation of the displacement actuator.
Thereafter, the controller is configured to balance the delivery of the displacement reaction force by the generator according to the use of the pseudo-calibrator, using the stored displacement reaction force profile.
Will Toyota Use Manual Transmission in Sports Electric Vehicles?
To summarize this text further, it sounds like Toyota’s pseudo-transmission does not move physically, just like in the Mazda MX-5, where each movement on the accelerator causes the transmission to react differently, adding to the profile and fun of the electric vehicle.
Therefore, this suggests that Toyota may use this manual transmission in future sports electric cars. The company’s president, Akio Toyoda, is an attentive driver and also an enthusiast, and has promised to add more distinctive electric cars to the company’s lineup.
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