eli5: Why does a CVT transmission still “shift” if it can be in any position and move seamlessly as they say?
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Picture a set of stairs. Normally you would walk on each step to get to the top. Or bottom. But with a CVT. We are walking up stairs. Say you want to get to the top of the stairs faster. What do you do? You propel yourself with more inertia to skip a few steps to the top. Or maybe you want to skip many stairs on the way up. So, you jump skipping even more stairs. Those skipping stairs are the so called fake shifts on a CVT. The belt is jumping up the cone or skipping stairs. Once it finish the jump. The rpm’s drop back down and it continues its walk up stairs. But what about down? Same thing just backwards.
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