Kill the Messenger - this time the LA Times

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Don't use a CVT in an electric final drive when you can have the series-wound motor. I understand this type does not need a transmission and its friction/heat losses because it develops high torque at near zero rpm. Useful for the motor-at-wheel kind of installation most electrics seem to be using.

Gravely brand power mowers also used a pretty feeble CVT back in the day. I used to wrestle one of the things as a teenager. The moving wheel was rubber-tired, the fixed wheel was steel. Power? -- not. This alleged self-propulsion was of some help getting the great heavy thing moving, but hell, I could push the thing along on my own legs two times faster than it could drive itself. Maybe the drive was prone to slippage, as I certainly never stalled it from (relatively) high speed that I can recall.