The only CVT I've ever used is in something like a Polaris Ranger Diesel and that hesitation as it starts moving has almost hurt us as we used them to move feed trailers around.
...."A belt-driven design offers approximately 88% efficiency,[1] which, while lower than that of a manual...
Wow! "0" ever!
Of course I don't need safe spaces, play dough, puppies, or kittens to let me deal with reality.
I might even learn something by allowing myself to be exposed to ideas that make me uncomfortable or that I don't agree with.
I have a 2011 F150 4x4 with trailer package.Just had new spark plugs for the first time at 105K.
I occasionally use it towing 5 ton corn trailers off road working on a friends ranch.
Seems pretty reliable to me.
All you have done is make a bunch of unsubstantiated assumptions and ask us to accept your results on faith.
Show us the underlying assumptions, the science, the math, and the results, then we may not be as skeptical.
Until you can provide substantiated information you should probably calm down.
Some guy?
I refer you to......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I'm not saying that CO2 emissions have nothing to do with the issue.
Just that "man" is only a small factor in the overall issue and there are some things that we have no control over.
Your comment shows only...
It was shown by Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milankovitch in the 1920s that there is a correlation between planetary alignment and climate change. So short of realigning, or maybe reordering, the planets, there is not much that can be done. In the meantime, lets stop yelling...
The minute lawyers and bureaucrats in the SEC became involved the entire concept of "moral duty" became moot.
Only the law (whatever it is this week) matters.
Don't know how much I'd worry about 'Samalross' issue.
After all, he is from Toronto.
If you check the current exchange rate, $8500 US = $11,473.77 Canadian.
At this point I would guess there are still import issues to deal with before he can get one.
Hmm........
Buy someone else's problems for $10K
or
Buy a new vehicle with warranty and auto trans for $8.5K
or
Learn to drive stick and save an additional $1K
Don't know where you are in NY, but my family used to own a small farm in Allegany County. One of my cousins owned a neighboring farm. He had to drill a new water well about 50 years ago. The water wasn't real good but he was able to tap the gas and heat his home with it. And that was before...