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Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality (hackaday.com)
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Actual link to study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00257-8/fulltext

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[–] Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

not necessarily. Toyota uses planetary gears which also change transmission without discrete "gear shifting". Although going fully EV removes that necessity of course.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Planetary gears have been used in automatic transmissions for as long as they have existed. I think you're thinking of CVTs.

[–] Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Yes, exactly! Thanks!