"Andy Hall" aka Matt wrote in message
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I suppose that his argument is that the
Primus doesn't have a gearbox
of the type that a conventional IC
car does - i.e. a box with gears
where the ratio from one side to
the other (engine to axle) is changed
by means of of a manual control
or automatic mechanism.

Matt, yep. You are one of the brighter one on this thread so far as you
have actually figured out what a gear box does to some degree.

However, it does have a box of
tricks containing gears which serves to
match the speed and torque characteristics
of the power sources with the requirement
of the car on the road and between the power sources.
In that sense, it can be called a gearbox.

Nope. Not an in-line gearbox as per normal awful crock cars, as the loonies
here think it is. It is a 'power splitter', and does what it says. It
works in parallel combining the power of two motors presenting them as one
to the wheels.

ISTM, that the terminologies used by
the manufacturer like "CVT" and
all the rest of it are just there as
marketing-speak to position the
car differently to others to the
impressionable, while creating
technobabble for those who are
into that.

yep. If you say it doesn't have a gearbox people will think they are being
cheated out of something, when infact eliminated that thing is a great thing
to do.

Matt, you did very well, so 7/10.