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What is also missing is a transmission that can shift smoothly, without the sound of a gasoline engine and the vibration it's hard to tell when to shift an electric car, it's also hard to match motor RPM to wheel RPM so you increase the chances of grinding gears, these are small problems that could be taken care of with a very basic computer control and electronic shifting.
There are also transmissions that will handle the power, there are transmissions that will handle 1,000hp trucks and those have to deal with the vibrations of the engine!
As I understand it the area where Tesla had trouble is they tried to use a low cost, Geo Metro transmission and that blew up then realized that an over sized motor was cheaper then a transmission and made it simple.
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