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Originally Posted by santosh
^agreed. I was just kinda curious. Is acceleration with a CVT competitive or any better than acceleration with say just a regular automatic transmission.
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In theory, comparing a car with an automatic transmission to an identical car with a CVT, you should see a 25% improvement in acceleration with the CVT. In practice it is slightly lower, but that is mostly because CVTs are much less mature technology.
I can say that even with a manually shifted CVT, 190's 2002 robot had incredible acceleration. Once it was working properly, it was first to the goals almost every time.