Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2600:1004:B12D:E814:F47E:9FB8:DFAB:8699-20180713202417/@comment-27798333-20180714174951

Leberis wrote: Bkuave wrote: Why not? It would be more fun to drive more fun to hear more fun to watch.

The electric motor is just another engine. Did you read what I wrote? What do you think these gears will do? An electric engine produces the highest torque at the lowest RPMs. Adding a gear box won't do anything to help the vehicle accelerate.

The electric motor isn't just another engine. It has completely different properties from a combustion engine. Internal combustion driven cars need gears for a variety of reasons, like efficiency, torque and horsepower management, and top speed, because of the relatively low rpm limits.

Although the average electric car does not need multiple speeds, in some (actually a lot of) instances, it could benefit from it, in the same way many electric machines do. Torque multiplying, top speed, energy management, heat management are all valid reasons to look into it.