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    11 months ago

    I see they’re dumping the engine but I wonder how they’re handling the transmission. I bet it’s probably a manual only conversion.

    EV conversion has been a thing for a while, albeit not at this scale, and my understanding is that automatic transmissions just turn to sand against the torque of a singular big EV motor. That’s why most dedicated EVs don’t have transmissions at all in favor of wheel specific motors and SSR gears.