: what does variable transmission mean on a car

Question

I’m looking at cars and I genuinely don’t know what that is please help

In: Engineering

Answer 1

It means that instead of using gears, the car uses pulleys that can smoothly change the effective “gear ratio” of the car. Cars with continuously-variable transmission don’t just have 4-6 gears they can be in: they can be in “gears” in between those.