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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
One advantage of the CVT no one has mentioned yet is it can keep the engine from constantly accelerating and decelerating. When shifting, you're losing small amounts of kinetic energy everytime the engine decelerates.
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I'm not sure this makes a difference?
What causes the engine to decelerate when you take it out of (or between) gear, is friction (fluids, rings, accessories), which is always present, even when the engine is in gear. Were the components frictionless, the engine would not decelerate between shifts.