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Everyone Hates CVTs, but eCVTS are Genius!

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Everyone hates CVTs, or continuously variable transmissions. The reason is when they first started getting widely adopted, they used belts, which often suffered reliability problems, and they also didn’t feel great to drive. And while belt-CVTs have improved tremendously, there might be a better way. eCVTs do away with all the belts and pulleys, in favor of a single planetary gear set. When you pair this with an engine and two electric motors, you can generate basically any gear ratio you want for that engine, and it’s dead reliable and dead simple. Automatic transmissions typically use sev...