If you pay attention to some performance cars, the manual transmission model has a considerable bonus for this car, and the comments on the Internet will be all applauded. The car enthusiast's dedication to manual transmission mainly comes from having better driving pleasure, although the current automatic transmission shift speed has far exceeded the manual transmission, but this feeling of human-vehicle integration is more direct than manual transmission. However, unfortunately, as the world is now moving in the direction of electrification, the manual gear has gradually faded out of people's vision, and there is not even a C1 license to choose from when taking the driver's license in the future.
Of course, the words can not be so dead, toyota recently applied for a number of patents in the United States, one of which is about adding a manual shift driving mode to electric vehicles. As you can see from the patented diagram, this also includes the traditional clutch pedal and manual shift lever, and even has a meter that can display the speed.
According to the introduction, Toyota provides three driving modes for such pure electric models, the first is the same as the traditional manual transmission, the clutch and the shift lever are fully arranged, driving up and the past fuel manual transmission model is completely consistent, and in order to create a sense of frustration of the speed climbing up and down, Toyota also added a reaction force generator, the main purpose is to create a shock; the second is to cancel the clutch pedal, only retain the manual shift lever, a bit like the M gear of the current fuel car, without stepping on the clutch, But it is still possible to control the lifting and lowering of the gear; the third is like the original automatic gear, but retains the frustration of the shift, just like the CVT gearbox will simulate the gear in order to make the driver feel some fun.
Toyota tried this five years ago. In 2017, Toyota released a concept car for the GR HV. In addition to the traditional push-button shift, the car also retains the traditional manual shift lever, with an opening key placed on the top, which can be switched to manual gear mode after pressing, and you can experience the fun of driving.
I still have reservations about Toyota's combination of automatic and manual transmission. First of all, the price problem, the so-called "multiple incense burners and multiple ghosts", Toyota as the world's most profitable car company, how can it be for no reason to send a set of manual transmission structure to you, naturally to add the extra cost to the car price. The second is whether it is necessary? They are all on the electric car, do you still need this speed or engine sound wave simulated by the signal? Feel a little self-deceiving yourself with the ingredients in it.
In fact, in the final analysis, is there still anyone who is willing to pay? After all, the manual gear has always been the kind that has not lost the vote and the sales have not won, and many people have hyped up on the Internet how fun the manual gear is, how good the driving pleasure is, and when they really buy a car, the body will still choose the automatic gear. The same is true in the fuel era, the electrification era is afraid to be more serious, like Toyota's automatic transmission plus manual transmission play is purely a chicken rib function, I believe that not too many people are willing to spend more money for this configuration to increase the cost of car purchase. If you are really a driving enthusiast, you should take advantage of the tail of the fuel car to seize the time to get one.