Drive arrangement and vehicle

The invention relates to a drive assembly (80) for a vehicle (1) that can be driven by muscle power and/or - in particular additionally - by engine power, an electric bicycle, e-bike or pedelec, which is designed to have (i) a crankshaft (15), that can rotate about an axis of rotation (Y), for receiving a firs torque, in particular generated by muscle power, and (ii) a transmission device (20) which is designed to transmit the first torque from the crankshaft (15) to a drive element (4) that can be coupled to a drive gear (9-2) of the vehicle (1), and to form a variable transmission using an - in particular automatically - switchable multi-stage planetary gearing (21), wherein: (a) the transmission of the planetary gearing (21) can be adjusted via a gear change and with the controlled connecting and/or releasing of respective sun gears (55, 56) of corresponding planetary stages (57, 58) via a follower element (64) that is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the respective sun gear (55, 56); (b) the resp