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To be honest I had not explored the possibility a great deal on how the transmission would matter in conversion. I know a few companies had explored simulated gearboxes and transmissions for their vehicles, and that was about as deep as my understanding was.
I assumed the transmission and gearbox had utility in EV but it does appear less important. Most conversions from what I saw essentially lock the vehicle in a gear.
Still I feel like there'd be energy to save utilizing those components, but the benefit seems outweighed by the effort. I am no EV expert after all.
Yeah the nice thing about EV motors, they can vary their power output hundreds of times per second so they don’t need a transmission as it can basically do everything a transmission can right from the motor. Some cars even put the motor in the wheel so you don’t need a drive axle. Overall the mechanical complexity of EVs are greatly reduced.
For an EV conversion it makes sense that you’d lock things to a single gear as you wouldn’t want to stress out the transmission from sudden power variances.