Some hybrid vehicles have used CVT or conventional automatic transmissions, but many other hybrids use a unique transmission known as an ECVT or electronically controlled continuously variable transmission. What is the difference?

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Many technicians think of a CVT as the typical belt-and-cone type. However, any transmission with variable gearing, including today's series-parallel hybrid transaxles, is a CVT. The terms ECVT and e-CVT are marketing terms describing series-parallel hybrid transaxles.

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