While the manual transmission has a so-called sense of control, simple structure, maintenance is cheap, but also to save fuel. But now the days of manual transmission not better. As technology advances, more and more popular automatic transmission. And in the future, after the arrival of electric cars, manual transmission and no useless.
US 2019 sales of 180,000 cars a manual transmission, accounting for only 1.1 percentage [ 123]
according to “JD Power and Green Car Report” announced that 11.7 million new cars sold in the United States in 2019, there are 120 000 is equipped with a manual transmission (1.1%). A manual transmission car sales 0.5 percent specific decrease in 2018. South Korea is the same, according to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), and 2018, the proportion of private vehicles manual transmission remained at 3%. But most only used in minimum distribution models.
sales manual transmission car for the first time less than pure electric vehicles
2019, 11.7 million cars sold in the United States, electric vehicles accounted for 1.6%, reaching 18 million. Thus the proportion of manual transmission vehicles, pure electric vehicles is also less than that. This is also the sales of pure electric vehicles for the first time over a manual transmission car.
Even emphasize manipulation of models gradually cancel manual transmission
In the US market, even though those that emphasize movement, control of the car, are gradually abandon the use of manual gearbox, starting in 2020, the US market Subaru Impreza stopped using manual transmission. The new Toyota sports car GRSupra devil, is no longer provided a manual gearbox.
In 1939 the United States for the first time GM introduced a 4-speed gearbox
Since 1939, General Motors introduced automobile having an automatic four-speed transmission in, The automatic transmission has been rapidly growing popularity in the United States, greatly simplifying the operation of the car, and since then, automakers are to build a model line-up automatic transmission by reducing manual transmission vehicles. And as technology advances, 5-speed, 6-speed, 7-speed, 8-speed automatic transmission is increasing.
Since the last automatic transmission fuel economy is poor, and could not completely replace manual gearbox. But this shortcoming through the development of technology, has been greatly improved. In particular, mainly for small cars CVT gearbox, in fact, more effective than the manual transmission.
popularity of electric vehicles, the manual transmission will be less
pure electric vehicles, since the structure of the the reason, do not need to shift, just need a forward gear, a reverse gear, manual transmission and therefore even less useful here. Now even many automatic gearbox, also began to use buttons or knobs, so the center console has become more concise.