New system is intended to offer greater involvement – and we've driven it
Toyota intends to offer its manual transmission for electric cars as an option on its next-generation of EVs to ensure they’re not a “commodity” and remain as fun and involving to drive as internal combustion engined cars. The system has been in development for three years and is being readied as a factory option buyers will be able to select in models created on the new modular architecture being developed for launch in 2026.
Acceleration is strong and you’re far more involved in the process than you would be in a normal Lexus UX 300e on which this ‘transmission’ is fitted. You soon forget you’re in a UX at all, a fairly unremarkable car, such is the extra involvement the system gives its driver. All the usual manual features are there: engine braking, coasting and most amusingly no torque when you suddenly try and accelerate in top gear, which then brings with it synthetic sound of parts of the cabin trim rattling.
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