Systems and methods for control of transmission and/or prime mover

A method of optimizing a vehicle having a drive motor and a continuously variable transmission (CVT), the CVT having a plurality of spherical power adjusters, each power adjuster having a tiltable axis of rotation, and a controller coupled to a memory storing a set of instructions, the method comprising the controller performing the steps of:

• receiving, from a user interface, an indication of a desired operating mode selected from a plurality of operating modes, wherein at least one operating mode allows the vehicle to operate in an efficiency mode and at least one operating mode allows the vehicle to operate in a performance mode;
• receiving an input associated with a desired vehicle speed;
• receiving an input associated with a motor speed;
• receiving information associated with the CVT, wherein information information from a speed sensor and information from an actuator position sensor;
• determining an input speed to the CVT based at least in part on the motor speed and the information associated with the CVT to achieve the desired vehicle speed;
• and
• adjusting a ratio of the CVT based on one or more predefined parameters.