• @Wilzax
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    232 years ago

    What is this transmission you speak of? I drive an electric vehicle

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      You’ve still got one, it’s just there’s only one gear ratio, a pretty big reduction gear to turn the high speed motor into the speed the wheels rotate at. Pretty sure even reverse just runs the motor backwards.

      It’s the one set of oil to change.

          • @[email protected]
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            -32 years ago

            But in cars a transmission is typically regarded as a device that has many gears that let you get optimal efficiency for the ICE. An electric car is more similar to a one speed bicycle in that it doesn’t really shift or change gears and I wouldn’t say a one speed bike has a transmission.

            Arguably wheel size is a transmission if you can get more RPMs and less torque by up sizing the wheel size or obviously the reverse. Would a wheel not be a rubber gear that interfaces rotational force into the flat road for linear force? Does that make every car have multiple transmissions via the use of wheels?

            • @MrJ2k
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              2 years ago

              Having multiple gears isn’t a necessity. The transmission transmits power from the engine to wheels.

              Chain and sprocket is a type of transmission.