2022 Xpander vs Avanza vs Ertiga vs BR-V

[Dr.Kamiya]

Yes. If you look at US EPA ratings of the exact same cars with the exact same engines, the CVT has on average 2-3 MPG improvement over the traditional torque converter AT.

Sample, 4th gen CRV:
5AT - 23 mpg city / 30 highway
CVT - 26 mpg city / 33 mpg highway

3 mpg is roughly 1.2 km/L


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I understand that CVT is better vs the old 4 and 5ATs, but is this still true vs modern ATs with 8 or even 10 speeds? I feel like those offer a sufficient spread of gears to mostly negate CVT's advantage of infinitely variable ratio.