• Ilovethebomb
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    10 months ago

    This platform is even worse than Reddit for confident idiots spouting absolute nonsense.

    Show me one EV in production that doesn’t have a reduction in gearing between the motor and wheels at some point.

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      10 months ago

      Gosh, as a confident idiot, you’ll have to remind me the effect a gear reduction has on torque which you’re claiming isnt important.

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          10 months ago

          Okay:

          Torque is a stupid, meaningless figure in almost any situation, but particularly in a vehicle where there is a transmission involved.

          It’s an ev. There isn’t a transmission involved.

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            10 months ago

            You do understand a transmission doesn’t necessarily mean multiple ratios, right? A single ratio reduction gear is a transmission.

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              10 months ago

              I love pedantry as much as the next person, but you can’t seriously expect me to believe that in a thread about a van, in response to people talking about a cars torque you invoked the idea of a transmission to mean anything from a big ol 18 gear peterbilt double shifter to a rear differential.

              When people are talking about cars and they use the word transmission they mean the mechanical device that lets you select gear ratios. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

              If you want to die on the “everything with gears is a transmission” hill that’s your prerogative, but it requires that you accept everyone recognizing that you don’t even know enough about cars to speak in the vernacular.

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                10 months ago

                You’re seriously telling the person using the term in its technical definition they’re wrong?

                Whatever dude, if you want to play chicken chess, that’s up to you.

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                  10 months ago

                  Oh cool jeep, what transmission do you have in it?

                  I went for the Dana 44.

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                    10 months ago

                    Almost every differential has a ratio, they step down the input to a slower speed, higher torque.

                    So yes, a Dana axle is inherently a reduction gear.