Manual transmission Fan Club and BS thread (All Generations Welcome)

Most EVs don't have a transmission, just a gear box. However, for any design that does emply a transmission, there is no reason it cannot be a true manual (Jeep Magneto).

I don't see an EV in my future. I highly doubt an EV will be on the market that works well for a trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks, much less a drive up the Dalton. Batteries take too long to charge and are too heavy for energy content. Perhaps a plug in hybrid that also has supper capacitors. At the moment, the tech is not ready.

 

I have a 2020 automatic. Regret not getting a manual all the time. I feel like most people how defend the auto are just experiencing buyers remorse.

 

I'm hoping an existing company keeps a line of gas cars or a new company starts that makes gas cars for hobby. EVs are soul less. How would you tune it, replace your $10,000 electric motor with a new $15,000 electric motor. It's sad that gas cars will die. Nothing will ever replace that feeling of pushing every part of a car to the limit and upshifting at (or over) redline. I can't ever see an EV feeling like that no matter how fast it is.

 

I think hybrids and plug in hybrids are the future for quite a while. As much as full ev sounds good, there isn’t the range or charging infrastructure today.

I was watching a towing test with the rivian the other day, 100 miles of range before the battery was gone.

 

A gearbox is a transmission, of sorts.

I agree with you, My comment was more along the lines of when we're all forced to have EVs, I'd rather have the one that simulates a manual rather than the one that is completely and 100% soulless

I agree with this and so does Toyota. A lot of the EV push is to get manufacturers to match the new cafe standards.

Also saw that rivian video, kind of sad to be honest.

 

Most likely I will outlive my truck, and by the time it croaks in 20 years EV will probably be my primary option, so I want to be optimistic that there will be a functional manual 'simulator' so I can still enjoy rowing the gears when I want.


When people say EVs will never work out because the technology isn't ready today:

 

I went to 04B13 years ago...should do the 14



Meatloaf

 

Yeah you should..

 

Get the simulator dialed in just right to where you can actually feel the "grind" when you miss a shift.

 

Attach a vibrator motor to the stick to provide haptic feedback, simulated gear grind

Will there be simulated stalls, or would it be unstallable?

 

Actually, I believe in the article it did say it could stall.

 

Might as well also add turbo and sc noises. Then people can get exactly what they want

 

There can also be a mode to make it run like garbage just for @MOC221_

 

I wonder if they could work in the high ratio reverse found in my 17? Then I'd feel like I was driving my truck still.

 

You could probably hack the programming and make the ratio EVEN HIGHER if you want

 

Toyota corporate nerds scratch heads when female buyer demographic explodes.

 

Lol, yup.

 

Could put it in reverse and it just takes off through the garage door