Although the torrent of new energy vehicles is sweeping the global automotive industry, although many car giants are also fighting for the first blood on the electrification track, Toyota, which has just won the global car company sales championship in 2021, is trying to find ways to reverse the history, it seems that in addition to selling cars, it is also very good at hyping up the topic of selling feelings.
Although the general understanding of Toyota in China is "family car manufacturing expert", in fact, under the leadership of President Akio Toyoda, a racing enthusiast, Toyota should be regarded as the most innovative traditional car company in the new energy wave in recent years. On the one hand, Akio Toyoda took the lead in boycotting electric vehicles; on the other hand, he was actively promoting Toyota to engage in special performance cars, such as GR Supra, GR Yaris and other models. To this end, Toyota and Toyota Akio have also won the praise and recognition of oil car sentiment fans.
However, after Toyota Akio was forced by investor pressure, emission regulations and other factors, he began to vigorously promote the electrification strategy, releasing as many as 15 electric vehicles at a time, but Toyota still has its own careful thoughts. It is understood that Toyota recently applied for 8 patents in the United States, which mentioned that it will provide simulated manual transmissions for pure electric vehicles in the future.
As early as 2021, in fact, foreign automotive forums have already broken this matter, indicating that since then, Toyota has been studying the feasibility of pure trams on manual transmission, and this system will include simulated clutch pedals, simulated gear shifts, and a torque flow interruption method that simulates driving traditional manual combustion engine cars. This also means that the single-pedal model touted by tesla and other new car-making forces may return to the three-pedal mode here in Toyota's electric vehicles.
As we all know, many owners of traditional fuel vehicles will usually come to the sentence "After driving the tram, the oil car cannot go back", the reason is that the pure tram is much better than the oil car, whether it is smoothness, driving tranquility and car cost, it is much better than the oil car, after all, there is no engine and the traditional sense of the transmission, the electric car is difficult to drive (here do not consider the chassis and suspension tuning).
But then again, many old drivers who have been driving manual gears for more than ten or twenty years, or manual gear players who are pursuing driving pleasure, for them, there are not many traditional fuel vehicles on the market with manual gears, and with electric vehicles completely abandoning the gearbox, presumably the saying "Real Man Use Three Pedal" (real man uses three pedals) should also disappear in the near future.
In fact, at present, there are already some niche electric vehicles equipped with manual transmissions, but before it was generally considered by the public to be a snake, because whether it is from the rational level or market development, this is completely unnecessary, after all, the biggest advantage of electric vehicles compared to oil vehicles is smooth, driving very silky.
However, Toyota's advantage over those unpopular manual transmission electric vehicles is that all this is a program simulation, it will only provide you with fun, if the user does not want to be upset when the traffic jam is also upset about the oil separation cooperation, then you can switch to the automatic transmission mode of conventional electric vehicles, in short, it will not add trouble to the user, but only add fun.
Write at the end
Although driving has become simpler and more efficient after the popularization of automatic fuel vehicles and electric vehicles, it is still fun to downshift and replenish fuel, especially to experience oil separation cooperation on electric vehicles, which is also quite interesting for old players, isn't it?