also literally everyone here has a tesla so theyre fucking gay

EV needs one gear to start from a dead stop and another to cruise

https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-cars-gears/

they're direct drive

but they aren't 'gears' per se

yup

they are just circuits

last thing EV needs is help from a dead stop, that's their most powerful state

And in high performance vehicles it makes sense to have a third gear because of diminishing returns at high revs of the electric motor

read on /o/ about it and one guy had an interesting theory

well actually I guess that graph contradicts that, but they're aren't piss weak like an ICE car

but they aren't 'gears' they just make them look t hat way

that they removed manual more and more because theyre easy to repair

Tesla has 2 gears

Like classical mechanical clutch things

@ManAnimal I'm from an entire planet of gears

motor speed control is just about how muchh current and how you choose to turn on the poles of the motor

You'd need some crazy complicated AC/DC motor to have a capacity to start from a dead stop easily

"The Tesla Model S, for example, is equipped with a single-speed 9.73:1 step-down transmission, not even a two-speed transmission"

You see, the thing about gear wars is that they weren't about the gears

How am I supposed to masturbate and drive in a manual? Asking for a friend.

it's called inrush current

any motor draws up to 10x the inrush current to break the inertia of a dead stop

once the motor is spinning, it only needs alittle current

@Grok you cant do that even when driving auto, lol

@ManAnimal There is a sweet spot of efficiency in every electric motor, you are loosing energy before or past that point

read the greentext or whatever on the dude who jacked off at 90mph

yyup

Gears are also a power wasters though

well you are trading torqure for speed

best to run the motor at constant speed

tesla model 3 top speed is 263kmhr

batteries are mainly too heavy to run trucks as well

and change the ratio of rotation delivered to the axel

Fun fact: many huge robotic arms also have "gears"
Or rather two types of motors connected via common differential
One motor is an AC, another is DC
One starts moving an arm, another keeps it moving

yeah, that is one way to do it . another is usingg a capacitor

Called Motor-Generators

im not an electrical engineer but i study materials engineering

@Uksio keel.

almost certain teslas don't have gears that switch

These complicated setups are being replaced by a hybrid AC/DC motors that can do all that by themselves now