subaru hybrid - manual transmission

Do any hybrids have a stick?

Carl

The Honda Insight had a manual.

Paul J

I think (just guessing) that it will have a fixed RPM engine driving a generator and an electric motor driving each wheel. There are some significant advantages to such a scheme, but the other automakers are so used to there being a drivetrain that they find it hard to think in any other terms.

No drivetrain = no transmission. No manual, no automatic.

The Toyota Prius has the best system. The gasoline engine and the electric motor/generator are connected through a differential with the output shaft. A computer controls the blending of these three power streams, so that a completely stepless automatic transmission is the result.

Not sure that is a good idea. What concerns me is the wide speed range required with high torque and speed matching between the wheels. both problems can be overcome but I wonder about the cost in dollars and efficiency. it is interesting that the prius uses a constant speed electric motor and continuously variable transmission.

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No, in all actual hybrid the master engine is the fuel engine so transmission is needed. With today tecnology is hard to have a 100 KW electric motor and relative batteries so small to fit in a car. In a hybrid system there is fuel engine, optimized for low concumption and emission, integrated with and electric unit to supply the lack of torque, a complicated transmission is needed to integrate both engine