Climate change is as phony as the clutches they are putting on some EVs. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Remember when Coke used to style itself the Real Thing? One wonders how Toyota will market the ersatz “clutch” and “shifting” it is apparently considering simulating in some of its pending EVs.
These don’t even have transmissions – the intermediary between the engine and the drive wheels, in non-electric vehicles. So there’s no shifting – because there are no gears to shift through. The electric motors turn the wheels, directly. Faster or slower. One speed – so to speak – fits all. And the motor stops running when the car is not moving – so there’s no mechanical need for a clutch to disengage it from the transmission that isn’t there, in order to keep it from “stalling.”
Maybe they’ll figure out a way to simulate that as well.
But it’s all a simulation. Not the Real Thing.
Does it not beg an interesting question?
