I have CVT on my Toyota Avensis/Camry, it’s amazing the gear change is totally imperceptible!

When I heard they made CVT’s for farm tractors, I figured Toyota could actually make one reliable.

Great video! I hadn't thought about how the physical 1st gear takes the bulk of the load, reducing wear and tear on the belt. Another good thing - the physical 1st gear also increases the overall total gear ratio range or spread, i.e. a traditional CVT may only have a 2.5 to 1 ratio spread, but with the physical 1st gear, now the transmission has a higher spread. If that makes sense. Because one of CVT's problems *is* that lack of gear ratio range, forcing the designers to either choose a low numerical gear ratio for the differential for good mileage, or a higher numerical ratio for off-the-line performance but at the expense of economy.

Thank you for the info on the DCVT that no one else explained the reason the new gen Toyota CVT are more reliable.

Wouldn't it be funny if the CVT finally completed it's evolution and overcame all it's problems and the final result was a geared transmission?

Cvt's are fine, I have a 2016 subaru crosstrek with 149,000 with no issues. If you don't do proper maintenance on any transmission, you will have problems. I trust the cvt so much i just got a crosstrek wilderness

Hell toyota has used cvts for decades. They easily go to half a million miles in Prius taxis and Ubers.

Still rocking with my prius 2011 the mil almost 28+++++ and still working. On time service and dont focus on modify for performence the engine will be fine. Performence for daily use not bad and the fuel consumption is realy good😅

Great discussion of this misunderstood topic. Great graph of torque curves by gear-I've not seen that one before.

Nice addition. Thanks👍🏽👍🏽

I like your lexus. Very nice setup. Been considering trading in my 2008 RX400H for either a new RX500H F Sport, or a certified pre-owned GX series. But Lexus really disappointed me with that turbo 4 banger. While although the electric motors make up for the turbo lag, or so they say, the 0-60 just doesn't match the price tag, and honestly it's not all that much faster than my old granny 400H. Recently sold my Tacoma, because my little peice of heaven became way too crowded with all the tuner car kids trading in their Civics to build a "overland" Tacoma as they call it. Obviously i'm all about the SAS culture, overlanding isn't my thing, and I got tired of towing factory Tacos out of the trail for free. Leaning towards just doing a light lift and some light gear on a GX.

Awesome explanation 👍

My 09 rav4 cvt k111f has 191000km no problems at all.

john deer e.a. use cvt for long time

Is this transmission on the new 23 rx350s too?

I wonder can the combine the cvt with a turbo?

Is this the same transmission on the Corolla Cross?

man, great explanation!

It's a rubber belt not metal I think

My old Subaru Legacy had abyssmal torque and power with the CVT... the acceleration was absent and you do not feel the HP. Please Lexus stay away from this trash technology.

Making a channel on just one model of a car (GX460) is........ not gonna get you a lot of subs but even then there's no guarantee of success unless there's excellence.

ECVT, same as in all the hybrid platforms. Lexus IS no different

Lmaooo won’t break… bought a 2024 corolla with this garbage in it and the car randomly jerks when driving already. It’s garbage avoid it