"Dave Plowman (News)" through a haze of senile
flatulence wrote in message ...

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.

But it does have a mechanism which
alters the gearing betwixt petrol
engine and road wheels.

Nope. The mechanism, a 'power splitter', is to vary/split the power between
two power sources (motors) and present the two to the wheels as one electric
motor (an electric motor doesn't need a gearbox) . Senile people will
difficulty understanding this.

Looking at it from the perspective of a user who never opens the
bonnet, the control on a Pius is basically the same as an automatic
conventional car - forwards, backwards and stop, although it doesn't
seem to have an "L" setting.

Indeed. However, on a DIY group it's
not unreasonable to go beyond this
and explain how such things are achieved.

Not by you, as you haven't a clue how it works, still prattling about CVT
gearboxes and other such tripe.

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.

Anything which contains gears and some
form of mechanical input and output
is a gearbox.

And the power splitter doesn't do this as it works in parallel, not series
(input, output). Some engine have a few messed cogs inside so this must be
gearbox as well - boy you are dumb. Senile people will difficulty
understanding this.

** snip senility **

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.

Ad speak.

Oh be jabbers!!! he got something right.