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Imagine being in a burning car and needing the manual to open the doors. And then you can't find it so you start googling "Tesla model S manual", find a PDF, then start scrolling through it trying to find out how do you open the doors.
Here's an idea, how about just make it so the handles mechanically open the damn doors? This is why i'll never own an electric car, they're full of bullshit like this where things are done electronically for absolutely no reason. I hate this fucking design phylosophy where everything has to be more complicated, less reliable and less functional.
Being electric isn't the problem. These are design choices that assume that things will always be perfect.
True, but this design philosophy is currently omnipresent in electric vehicles. I guess i shouldn't say never, maybe someday they'll make an electric Lada and i'd buy that in an instant