For what reason? Almost all EVs only have a single gear. The high performance ones will have two as most and that’s well into the triple digit mph. Reverse doesn’t require seperate gearing either.
Because it would be cool. There’s not much functional reason. But having a gears and a clutch will also go a long way towards preventing people from stealing your car, and it’s 100% effective on preventing people from asking to borrow it. For maximum japes you could possibly rig your motor controller’s firmware such that it can simulate stalling, too.
From a semi-practical standpoint there may be something to be said for parking any old electric motor you can find in what used to be the engine bay and just hooking it up to the input shaft on the transmission so you can keep all of your existing differentials and axles and so forth, which may be handy on converting a (possibly compact) vehicle that won’t have a ready made aftermarket conversion and without having to spend ages faffing around trying to kit-bash new axle mounts into it or find and weld new places to hang motors behind the wheels or between the axles.
To be honest I had not explored the possibility a great deal on how the transmission would matter in conversion. I know a few companies had explored simulated gearboxes and transmissions for their vehicles, and that was about as deep as my understanding was.
I assumed the transmission and gearbox had utility in EV but it does appear less important. Most conversions from what I saw essentially lock the vehicle in a gear.
Still I feel like there’d be energy to save utilizing those components, but the benefit seems outweighed by the effort. I am no EV expert after all.
Yeah the nice thing about EV motors, they can vary their power output hundreds of times per second so they don’t need a transmission as it can basically do everything a transmission can right from the motor. Some cars even put the motor in the wheel so you don’t need a drive axle. Overall the mechanical complexity of EVs are greatly reduced.
For an EV conversion it makes sense that you’d lock things to a single gear as you wouldn’t want to stress out the transmission from sudden power variances.
Why is that? It’s not an efficiency thing, EVs are far more efficient than and manual will ever be. It’s not a shift thing, humans haven’t been able to outshift automatics for quite a while and EVs don’t have gears. The only think I ever hear is a flimsy “soul” thing, which frankly EVs give power to masses more than any Mustang GT could. Hell, Hyundai started putting in fake “gear shifts” into their EVs for people who wanted that.
For what reason? Almost all EVs only have a single gear. The high performance ones will have two as most and that’s well into the triple digit mph. Reverse doesn’t require seperate gearing either.
Because it would be cool. There’s not much functional reason. But having a gears and a clutch will also go a long way towards preventing people from stealing your car, and it’s 100% effective on preventing people from asking to borrow it. For maximum japes you could possibly rig your motor controller’s firmware such that it can simulate stalling, too.
From a semi-practical standpoint there may be something to be said for parking any old electric motor you can find in what used to be the engine bay and just hooking it up to the input shaft on the transmission so you can keep all of your existing differentials and axles and so forth, which may be handy on converting a (possibly compact) vehicle that won’t have a ready made aftermarket conversion and without having to spend ages faffing around trying to kit-bash new axle mounts into it or find and weld new places to hang motors behind the wheels or between the axles.
To be honest I had not explored the possibility a great deal on how the transmission would matter in conversion. I know a few companies had explored simulated gearboxes and transmissions for their vehicles, and that was about as deep as my understanding was.
I assumed the transmission and gearbox had utility in EV but it does appear less important. Most conversions from what I saw essentially lock the vehicle in a gear.
Still I feel like there’d be energy to save utilizing those components, but the benefit seems outweighed by the effort. I am no EV expert after all.
Yeah the nice thing about EV motors, they can vary their power output hundreds of times per second so they don’t need a transmission as it can basically do everything a transmission can right from the motor. Some cars even put the motor in the wheel so you don’t need a drive axle. Overall the mechanical complexity of EVs are greatly reduced.
For an EV conversion it makes sense that you’d lock things to a single gear as you wouldn’t want to stress out the transmission from sudden power variances.
I hate automatics. The fact all EVs are automatic puts me off of them.
Why is that? It’s not an efficiency thing, EVs are far more efficient than and manual will ever be. It’s not a shift thing, humans haven’t been able to outshift automatics for quite a while and EVs don’t have gears. The only think I ever hear is a flimsy “soul” thing, which frankly EVs give power to masses more than any Mustang GT could. Hell, Hyundai started putting in fake “gear shifts” into their EVs for people who wanted that.
Most EVs aren’t automatic, but rather they literally don’t have a transmission. They don’t have gears to switch between.