![]() This UX mule has a custom six-speed that feels similar to a GR Corolla’s gearbox with tight, short shifts and a deep, vaguely six-cylinder-ish bespoke engine sound they cooked up just for this project. Oh, and by the way-that car worked the same way as this simulated manual EV, just with paddle shifters and no clutch. Now think downloadable “profiles” for your EV that simulate the gas car of your choice, or even the ability to fully customize how your EV sounds and how it puts down power, almost like in a video game. The engine sound on the latter car needed some work, but it’s a clever idea. Before driving the manual UX, I sampled a Lexus RZ with programmable engine sounds and more customized power delivery-basically, an EV that can act and sound like a Toyota Tundra, an economy hatchback, or a Lexus LFA on demand. Moreover, Toyota is cooking up other ways to make EVs more lively. (Of course, they nervously demurred when I asked if it would debut on the production FT-Se, the “electric MR2” everyone loved at the auto show, which I heard from its chief designer.) And it won’t be on this UX this is just a mule for the project. We first heard real progress on it last year, and now, Toyota’s engineers are making no secret of the fact that it’s going into production. Toyota’s been at this for a while some patents date back to 2017. “You will feel like you are driving a car with a manual transmission.”Ĭoupled with artificial engine noise delivered through the car speakers, it replicates the experience of driving an ICE car in an EV-and it does this so well you might forget what’s under your hood. “We also changed the control program of the electric motor,” another engineer, Tatsuya Iwamura, tells us before we go out on the Shimoyama test track. Those sensors detect the movement of those devices and then use software to artificially modulate the amount of torque the electric motor sends to the wheels. ![]() Instead, the Toyota team cooked up an independent six-speed stick-shift unit with a sensor attached and a clutch pedal with the same.
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