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Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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I don't get this kind of stuff at all. And this is coming from someone who drives a manual transmission car. Electric cars don't need transmissions, why would I want to pretend to shift gears? It's like the fake engine noise. Very silly.
Nissan did this a while ago in response to customer complaints. People were complaining about the lack of power and acceleration in cars with CVTs, so instead of actually fixing the problem, Nissan introduced programming in their car that simulates shifting. When you get on the freeway and floor the accelerator to get up.to speed, the revs will go up to about 5 or 6k and then will "downshift" to 2-3k while "shifting" through gears. Anybody that knows what a CVT actually is knows there are no gears to shift and acceleration should be happening at a constant engine RPM.
Basically, people are too dumb to realize they bought a horrendously underpowered shitbox, so Nissan gave those people the equivalent of visual cues and some engine noises to make them feel better about it.
You have to imagine the people who made this do engine noises while they drive
I once saw a concept car for an EV at a trade fair and their selling point was that it had a sound system to realistically emulate engine noises. You could even pick among 50 or so cars it could emulate. As far as I remember the noises were only played inside.
Our kids kids will just be like "oh yeah, car noise. I heard in a history thing why they sound like that"
My cat makes little vroom noises when he gets the zoomies.