Da Vinci invented a flashlight that would light up when there was light and wouldn't light up when there was no light.
Similarly, Toyota recently invented a new technology, applying for a new patent to simulate the manual shift of fuel vehicles on electric vehicles to improve driving pleasure.
Although this is not the idea of Toyota, BYD, BAIC and other companies have also equipped electric vehicles with manual transmissions, but in general, these are "research and development costs are thrown away" behavior.
The times are illustrating that manual transmission is not needed by consumers at all.
Older generations of consumers will still find manual transmissions enjoying driving, but in fact, after they have touched the automatic gear, they will still say "it is still good to automatically stop".
Believe it or not, how many people after you see now after 00 say that manual gear has driving pleasure?
Is Porsche's PDK a manual transmission? Audi TTRRS in the track crazy drift, tail flicking, if paired with MT gearbox to determine if it is still fun, steel cannon has a manual transmission, but the real amount of is not still automatic?
People who say that manual transmission has driving pleasure are basically self-deception and people who live in their own world and are unwilling to consider more user needs.
Although there is no clear data statistics on the share of manual transmissions, but from the current direction of product promotion can get news, Toyota, Honda, Nissan and even the Great Wall, Changan has all given up manual gear, Volkswagen, GM only in the entry model of the minimum equipped with manual gear, and dealers do not promote.
Manual transmission models only exist in 50,000 class cars, and many groups that pursue quality will say NO to manual transmissions.
The era of electrification requires intelligence, electric, sharing, the combination of motors, batteries, and electronic controls is the best choice for users, and it is also the clearest direction for enterprises.
The Occam Razor Principle says that the simpler the better, such as not adding entities unnecessarily, and not wasting too much energy to do better things with less energy.
Electric vehicle automation is already the general direction of the industry, no one will choose the manual transmission for the so-called driving pleasure, technically it must be more difficult to implement, and it is accompanied by higher costs, uncertain failure rates and more complex car experience.
Why should you? Is it bad that electric cars are driving now?
Moreover, Toyota's push of manual transmission technology in order to control this thing originally sounded very ridiculous, with manual transmission control is good? Toyota's control is not good or not, everyone knows that it is not a driving pleasure to replace the automatic gear with a manual transmission.
Needless to say, it may also make some sense to develop a manual transmission, but in today's more difficult transition of Toyota's electrification, the focus should be on how to better do a good job in electrification.
Global new energy market sales, Toyota's transformation is slow, I think it is needless to say, once tens of millions of giants in the electric market wrestled, I can only say that the current executive layer still has a deep obsession with electrification.
Of course, it is not excluded that people engage in this kind of patent, in order to pave the way for future development, who knows.