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Are there any Hybrid/Electric cars that are 6 speed manual?

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I was wondering if there any hybrid cars that are 5 or 6 speed manual (stick shift)? Would it make sense to make hybrid 5 speed manual vehicles considering 5 speed manual cars are cheaper on gas but does it make a difference to have a 5 or 6 speed that is hybrid (electric)? if that’s even an option.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 12:20 pm and is filed under Hybrid Cars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Are there any Hybrid/Electric cars that are 6 speed manual?”

  1. Dana1981, Master of Science on September 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    There is a 5-speed manual electric car:

    But currently no other manual hybrids or electrics that I’m aware of. The thing is that while making a transmission manual improves mileage for internal combustion engines, generally that’s not the case for electric motors.

  2. Electric motors tend not to have gears, as they can run from 1RPM (unlike internal combustion engines which idle around 1000RPM) all the way to higher RPMs needed to get a car going at a descent speeed.

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