"Dave Plowman (News)" through a haze of senile
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In article ,
John Wright wrote:

Where else is this sort of CVT merged
with an epicyclic power splitter
used then? I suspect the car type
CVT most people are familiar with
would contain pulleys and belts

Shame on you.

Yes shame on his for having the intelligence to figure it out. Boy you are
dumb.

A gearbox contains gears, not surprisingly.

A CVT is a constantly variable transmission.

Good 10/10.

The Prius type is an
epicyclic gearbox

No. It doesn't have an in-line gearbox.

- and this can achieve stepless
variable ratios from no drive to
the mathematical maximum according
to how the ring gear is allowed to rotate.

No. The epicyclical cluster shares power between two parallel motors.