After decades of driving conventional vehicles, one gets used to the idea of shifting gears, multispeed transmission s an absolute necessity in combination with an internal combustion engine. In an electric vehicle, perhaps one comes to the conclusion that a multispeed transmission would be a given, but practically none of them do. Are electric vehicle transmission s necessary to improve performance? First, let’s take a look at why we have multispeed transmission s in the first place.

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