Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven it - eviltoast

It sounds bizarre but I want to try it.

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    11 months ago

    The traditional reason for a manual was fuel and oil efficiency which was kinda miserable when automatic transmissions came up. However this reason has been long turned around where automatics are certainly more efficient.

    Even in europe manual usage is dwindling.