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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
When I see an increasing amount of gears in an automatic transmission, it seems like a CVT could make more sense. Well, considering the electric motors in some hybrids are set to emulate the function of a CVT, that makes some sense.
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People don't like how CVTs sound / work. Drivers are conditioned to expect RPMs to rise during acceleration and then drop at the upshift. Rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall. When a CVT goes to peak torque or HP and just stays there it seems odd - like the engine is screaming and being abused. Of course it isn't but goes against decades of tradition. I drove a 2nd generation Prius for more than a decade and the engine still sounded wrong.
That is why more and more CVTs are being programmed to mimic a traditional automatic and shift virtual gears.