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nkaminar · 03-27-2024, 12:53 PM

On a side note, there was an article in the news today about how manual gear shifting is going the way of the dodo bird. EV's have only one gear and no shifting. Same with hybrid vehicles. The modern automatic has 9 gears and accelerates better, has better fuel economy, and less pollution than a manual transmission. Some countries have outlawed manual gearboxes due to the added pollution.

whirnot · 03-27-2024, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nkaminar

On a side note, there was an article in the news today about how manual gear shifting is going the way of the dodo bird. EV's have only one gear and no shifting. Same with hybrid vehicles. The modern automatic has 9 gears and accelerates better, has better fuel economy, and less pollution than a manual transmission. Some countries have outlawed manual gearboxes due to the added pollution.

What Countries are those? When we have been out of the country manual shifts have been way more prevalent than Automatics. We have had several Hybrids, which ones are you talking about that have no shifting? Ours have always shifted, as you are running on gas most of the time.

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nkaminar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Western North Carolina Posts: 5,850	Re: Electric Model A's On a side note, there was an article in the news today about how manual gear shifting is going the way of the dodo bird. EV's have only one gear and no shifting. Same with hybrid vehicles. The modern automatic has 9 gears and accelerates better, has better fuel economy, and less pollution than a manual transmission. Some countries have outlawed manual gearboxes due to the added pollution. __________________ A is for apple, green as the sky. Step on the gas, for tomorrow I die. Forget the brakes, they really don't work. The clutch always sticks, and starts with a jerk. My car grows red hair, and flies through the air. Driving's a blast, a blast from the past.