multispeed transmission Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:51:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Do Electric Cars Have Gears? No. Here’s Why https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-cars-gears/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-cars-gears/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:43:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53122 Here’s a conversation that piqued my interest today: “Are electric vehicle transmissions necessary?”, or “Do electric cars have gears?”. Really, could multispeed gearing do anything for electric vehicle performance, acceleration, speed, efficiency, or otherwise? (For the purposes of this discussion, we’re leaving out heavy-duty applications, such as delivery trucks or tractor-trailers.) After decades of driving […]

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