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Toyota’s Direct Shift-CVT and How It Works – autoevolution
Toyota’s rise to automotive highs is well documented. They took the world of endurance racing by storm and pioneered many innovative technologies. Among them, t…
The CVT, or continuously variable transmission, is not a new idea, many car manufacturers use this technology instead of a traditional transmission. This evolution comes from the desire to create more fuel-efficient cars. A normal CVT transmission uses pulleys and a belt instead of fixed gears to connect the transmission to the wheels, but the transmission has fewer moving parts, and it allows the engine to run using the most fuel-efficient RPM’s.
The downside is that it can also give the driv…
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