As one who has driven a nissan altima and a honda insight with cvts they do things completely different.
The honda has a fixed relationship between the engine and throttle. THe cvt does the work of making the car go. Its like setting the throttle of a tractor.
The Nissan it was way different. For starter slight throttle pressure made the tach dip 500 to a thousand rpms. More throttle caused the engine to start to rise in rpms. More throttle and it would run up to red line. Really strange from my honda experience. I imagine if you had time to focus you could use the light throttle technique that caused the rpms to drop to maximize mpg.
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