River Indie EV Gets Its First Upgrade: River, the Bengaluru-based electric scooter manufacturer, has introduced the first update to its Indie EV. The update includes a single-speed gearbox with a ...

The Ingear replaces the second reduction gear with a continuous chain drive ... The transmission can apparently be retrofitted to any EV, as was proven when it was installed in a Kia Soul ...

When you drive an electric vehicle for the first time ... But it is more accurately called a single-speed gear reduction unit since the multiple gears in the gearbox are always connected to ...

When I first sat behind the wheel of an EV ... looking at a two-speed future for EVs in general? No, I wouldn’t say so. From a manufacturing point of view, a single-gear system reduces ...

Virtually all modern EVs send their power to the road via a direct drive and reduction gear system - they are single ... speed cruising ability. So perhaps a CVT is better suited as an EV ...

Why Would You Want a Manual EV? Electric cars these days typically don't have transmissions, but rather some arrangement of gearsets and differentials yielding a single-speed gear reduction that ...

See All 3 Photos Here's where the Ingear concept trumps the established two-speed EV trannies ... should cost about $150 more than a single reduction gear set and deliver 7-15 percent greater ...

The Porsche Taycan is the first EV with a two-speed transmission, which provides numerous advantages over the single-speed arrangement ... with the second-gear ratio roughly half of the first ...

Whereas most electric vehicles rely on a single ... low-speed maneuvers that require a lot of torque. A second road-biased gear would allow the vehicle to operate as a regular electric vehicle.

cost and complexity in an EV, but EVs still have a transmission of sorts. Even EVs with just one speed still need gears that change the electric motor’s drive-gear ratio and transfer power to a ...