Sentences with phrase «physical gears»

The electric motor generates better acceleration feel than a conventional engine, and adding physical gears more closely aligns engine rpm with the driver's inputs.

«And adding physical gears more closely aligns engine rpm with the driver's inputs.»

While a continuously variable transmission, or CVT, doesn't technically have any gears, the programming of the control unit creates shift points in the rev range that feel like physical gears, and so you can change up or down as much as the engine revs allow and it feels quite similar to a conventional, geared automatic transmission.

Utilising a 3.5 - litre V6 and electric motor combination, the LC500h eschews Lexus» habit of equipping its hybrid models with a CVT, instead employing a complex automatic gearbox which has 4 physical gears, with the first 3 each having a further 3 «stepped» gears to create a total of 10 just as in the V8.

Toyota's chief engineer for Corolla, Yoshiki Konishi, says a CVT is more efficient that automatics except from a stop, thus the physical gear added for initial startup.

As it has no physical gears or fixed gear ratios, a CVT actually features the equivalent of an infinite number of gears.

That being said, customers need to make sure they double - check to see if their bundle includes a physical Gears of War 4 disc or a digital download.