you can think of traditional automatic transmission or manual transmission as going up a flight of steps. The point of CVT transmission, at least on paper, is to get rid of that clunky kind of moment when you switch from one gear to the next. The way CVT transmission works is, rather than actually having those individual gears to switch through such as first, second, third oh, it works by a series of pulleys that increase or decrease a gear ratio as you drive. But it does switch from one year to the next once you've reached the appropriate speed. Automatic transmission takes the effort out of this by changing gears for you at the appropriate time. In a manual transmission, you are responsible for shifting your car from one gear to the next. Unlike a normal automatic transmission, the CVT transmission is meant to be seamless as it moves through a range of gear ratios as opposed to switching individually from each gear to the next gear in sequence. What is Continuously Variable Transmission?Ī continuously variable transmission is a kind of automatic transmission.
