luxury performance division — is seriously working on this, as the company confirmed during a conference in Europe.
The system uses a physical gear shift, tachometer and third pedal. We hesitate to call it a clutch pedal because it's not actually connected to a clutch. Of course an EV wouldn't have a gearbox with actual gears and synchros, either. Everything is simulated via software. Takashi Watanabe, chief engineer of Lexus Electrified, described it as a"simulated drive force map with pedal and shift positions to reproduce the feeling of a manual transmission." It's so realistic, though, that the driver even faces the possibility of stalling the car or rolling backwards on a hill start. And since the system is governed by ones and zeroes, each driver can choose their preferred"gearing" without having to swap out cogs of varying ratios.
"This new project all started with some Lexus engineers reflecting on what they liked about traditional [internal combustion] vehicles and what they had to miss out on withTantalizingly, Watanabe revealed this technology while standing before the
Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)
Good call, Lexus!
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