Most people have heard of automatic and manual transmissions, but CVT transmissions, also known as continuously variable transmissions, aren’t as widely understood. While automatic and manual transmissions have a set number of gear ratios that the transmissions select depending on speed and RPM, CVTs aren’t limited to a fixed number of gears. Instead, they use what is essentially a pulley system, where a belt rides in a cone-shaped valley of two pulleys. One of the pulleys is connected to
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