i am irrationally afraid of transmissions. like why the fuck do you need this much gears for??
Efficiency. Combustion engines have a shockingly narrow acceptable power to fuel consumption zone
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He’s variable, he’s continuous, and he’s trans. And he’s saving you ✨ monayyyyyyy ✨.
Efficiency, yes. The second part is a little misguided though. The different gears in a transmission allow the vehicle to move at your desired speed while keeping the engine’s speed low, thus reducing fuel consumption.
Power to fuel consumption isn’t really a thing afaik. Naturally, a slower spinning engine will use less fuel.
Sorry for unclear wording, I meant that you obviously need some level of power output to move, but you need different levels of power output to keep moving at any given speed, hence the gears. What I meant by ‘power to fuel consumption’ was that while you theoretically could go at a high speed using a low gear up to a point, that would be very inefficient. I’m not actually an engineer, though I pretend to be one at university.
Good thing I’m not an educator!
(Extra irony given Clarkson’s dislike of EVs)
I miss my Leaf. Great car, with no fucking active cooling for the battery. In the desert. It pained me. You could have been perfect, you could have been the chosen one!
Japan makes some fantastic things. The fact that it was so painfully obvious that they didn’t bother to test it in any other climate was just suicide.
Which is where CVTs excel. Maybe I’m old school, but if you have something too powerful for a CVT belt to handle, fuel efficiency is not your top priority. Maybe I sound like an old fart going “nobody needs FIVE gears when three is plenty!” but imo the only vehicles that have any business having 10 or more ratios are the ones that regularly pull a few dozen tons of cargo. We should have stopped at six. More than that and a CVT is what you need.
I have a 26 year old car with a 5 speed manual. I can’t say I’m sure any of these new 10 speed auto cars will still be running in a quarter century with a quarter million miles on the clock.
i am very rationally afraid of cars. like why the fuck would 500 billion boxes on four wheels that weigh like two tons in average become our main method of transportation
I like cars, but I do agree we have too many of them. Making them the primary mode of transportation for a large chunk of the population was definitely a mistake. The problem isn’t so much the cars themselves, but car-centric infrastructure.
“Back in my day, blowing a tranny was a car problem”
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There are few things in the world more satisfying than a real heavy duty tranny. I mean the kind that can take you from zero to blasting you back in your seat with more horsepower than you’ve ever experienced, and then do it again and again.
There is a joke to be made from this comment, and I’m trying so hard not to make it lol
I think my trans mission needs a checkup, the ignition doesnt seem to be engaging and the check engine light has been on for a few months 😰
Combustion engines are woke now?
