Simulated fuel vehicle control fun Toyota electric vehicle manual gear patent exposure

A few days ago, a patent for a manual gearbox developed by Toyota for electric vehicles was exposed. The patent is intended to simulate the exclusive manual shift mode of fuel vehicles on electric vehicles, so as to increase the control pleasure of electric vehicles.

As we all know, with the advent of the electric age, manual gears will be on the verge of extinction. But Toyota has a different idea. Although the company firmly embraces future electric vehicles, such as bZ4X, it has applied for eight patents in the United States, indicating that it will provide analog manual transmissions for future electric vehicles.

These patents first appeared in BZ forum, and then filed in the summer of 20021,involving a variety of technologies, including simulating clutch pedal, simulating gear shifting and a method of simulating torque flow interruption when driving a traditional manual internal combustion engine car.

The following is an excerpt from one of the patents:

"The electric vehicle includes a gear lever and a clutch pedal to simulate a manual transmission vehicle ... The driver selects a gear from a plurality of simulated gears by manipulating the gear lever ... and the system will calculate and simulate the corresponding power of the engine and display the virtual engine speed."

These patents show that Toyota equipped with this system will provide three different modes. One requires the driver to use the clutch and gear lever at the same time, and the other does not need the clutch. Toyota believes that the clutch may be very useful when parking, reversing or traffic jams. In the third mode, neither clutch nor gear lever is needed.

The patent shows that in the third mode, these actions will be automatically handled by the system, so the car will be like an automatic fuel car instead of a traditional fixed-proportion electric car. This may mean that the system will be reserved for driver-centered high-performance cars such as future SUPRA. As shown in the above picture, you may even get a fake tachometer whose scale looks like a gas tanker.

If all this sounds familiar, you may think of the GR HV concept car of Toyota 20 17. This car is essentially an electrified hardtop convertible GT86, and the driver can press the button hidden under the top cover of the gear lever to unlock the traditional H gear. Although it is only a demonstration car, it is now obvious that Toyota really wants to save the manual transmission.