The manual transmission plus clutch has always been a favorite of driving enthusiasts, and the manual transmission was also used in the early professional racing cars. Although some automatic transmissions are now very intelligent, the shift speed is far stronger than the manual transmission, but the manual transmission to give people a sense of operation can not be replaced, recently Toyota released a patent for electric vehicle manual transmission.
Although the manual gear has an irreplaceable position among driving enthusiasts, but after the gradual popularization of new energy models, due to its direct output mode, many electric vehicles are directly in a gear, even the automatic transmission is not needed, and the manual gear has no living space.
Toyota's application for a patent for a manual transmission specially developed for electric vehicles may also enable car owners to enjoy the driving pleasure of human-vehicle integration in the new energy era. According to the patent, Toyota will equip the electric vehicle with a pseudo-clutch device, which can simulate the clutch operation texture of traditional fuel vehicles, but it is not necessary to operate.
The "manual transmission" electric car can only be regarded as a simulated manual transmission, not a manual transmission, because it does not have a real transmission and clutch, but instead only a false clutch pedal and gear lever, how to accurately describe this feeling? It should be like a set of game simulation devices, but the steering wheel, throttle, and brakes are really controlling the car, and the clutch pedal and gear lever are comforting the driver.
Toyota has not yet designed three driving modes for manual transmission, the first driving mode is that the driver controls the clutch and the gear lever to simulate the same feeling of shifting as the real manual transmission. The second mode is to simulate the driving experience of manual gear directly through the gear lever without stepping on the clutch, and the third mode simulates the shift without artificially operating the clutch and the gear lever, and the electric vehicle will deliberately create a sense of shift frustration when accelerating and decelerating.
After reading the instructions, you may also understand that this is not a real manual shift, this set of devices is only to provide the owner with manual gear-like driving pleasure, but it does not need to switch gears back and forth like the traditional manual gear model, the owner can operate under the track, and the daily driving does not affect the smoothness.