Do you think the subaru turbo hybrid will come with a manual transmission or just automatic? If it can come with a manual any ideas on how it would work? Thanks for any responses.
Regards, Paul J
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18 years ago
subaru hybrid - manual transmission
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18 years ago
Do any hybrids have a stick?
Carl
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18 years ago
The Honda Insight had a manual.
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Dont know too much about any other car though.
Paul J
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18 years ago
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.
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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.
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18 years ago
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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18 years ago
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