February 13 news, recently, Toyota a new patent has been exposed, the patent is intended to simulate the fuel vehicle exclusive manual shift mode on the electric vehicle, in order to increase the driving pleasure of electric vehicles.
The patent indicates that Toyota vehicles equipped with the system will offer three different modes, one that requires the driver to use both the clutch and the shift lever, the other without the use of the clutch, and the third mode, which requires neither the clutch nor the shift lever.
Toyota believes that clutches may be useful when parking, reversing or stuck in traffic, while in the third mode, these actions will be handled automatically by the system, so the car will behave like an automatic fuel car, rather than a traditional fixed-ratio electric car.
