subaru hybrid - manual transmission

[Paul]

Do you think the subaru turbo hybrid will come with a manual
transmission or just automatic? If it can come with a manual any ideas
on how it would work? Thanks for any responses.

Regards,
Paul J

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Do you think the subaru turbo hybrid will come with a manual
transmission or just automatic? If it can come with a manual any ideas
on how it would work? Thanks for any responses.

Regards,
Paul J

Do any hybrids have a stick?

Carl

 

[Paul Johnson]

Do any hybrids have a stick?

Carl

The Honda Insight had a manual.
http://hybridcars.about.com/od/buyingahybridcar/a/InsightReview.htm

Dont know too much about any other car though.

Paul J

 

[Guy Macon]

Do you think the subaru turbo hybrid will come with a manual
transmission or just automatic? If it can come with a manual any ideas
on how it would work? Thanks for any responses.

I think (just guessing) that it will have a fixed RPM engine driving
a generator and an electric motor driving each wheel. There are some
significant advantages to such a scheme, but the other automakers are
so used to there being a drivetrain that they find it hard to think in
any other terms.

No drivetrain = no transmission. No manual, no automatic.

 

[l.lichtman]

The Toyota Prius has the best system. The gasoline engine and the
electric motor/generator are connected through a differential with the
output shaft. A computer controls the blending of these three power
streams, so that a completely stepless automatic transmission is the
result.

 

[nothermark]

I think (just guessing) that it will have a fixed RPM engine driving
a generator and an electric motor driving each wheel. There are some
significant advantages to such a scheme, but the other automakers are
so used to there being a drivetrain that they find it hard to think in
any other terms.

No drivetrain = no transmission. No manual, no automatic.

Not sure that is a good idea. What concerns me is the wide speed
range required with high torque and speed matching between the wheels.
both problems can be overcome but I wonder about the cost in dollars
and efficiency. it is interesting that the prius uses a constant
speed electric motor and continuously variable transmission.

;-)

 

[S.C.]

I think (just guessing) that it will have a fixed RPM engine driving
a generator and an electric motor driving each wheel. There are some
significant advantages to such a scheme, but the other automakers are
so used to there being a drivetrain that they find it hard to think in
any other terms.

No drivetrain = no transmission. No manual, no automatic.

No, in all actual hybrid the master engine is the fuel engine so
transmission is needed.
With today tecnology is hard to have a 100 KW electric motor and
relative batteries so small to fit in a car.
In a hybrid system there is fuel engine, optimized for low concumption
and emission, integrated with and electric unit to supply the lack of
torque, a complicated transmission is needed to integrate both engine

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