I'm stuck on this personally. I love my manual, I have a tiny little Mazda 2 and I have driven that thing absolutely everywhere because I can control it better than any automatic I've ever driven. But I've been casually looking for a new car and I'd love to have an electric, but I don't want to lose that level of control and everything I love about a manual.

What do you all think? What's your take?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. In fact we did. PHEV, but still electric part of the time.

Love the hell out of it. Being able to cruise around town for weeks and use zero gas. We charge at home, so no $$ charging subscription.

For context I’m a Gearhead. Built muscle cars myself and with friends, work on my own vehicles as much as possible, love the sound of muscle and high-rev exotics…and I have no problem with electric cars. People in my hobby group tend to be bass-ackwards and stubborn, they dislike change. I find their whining about electric cars to be louder than a straight cut gearbox. Hell with that. EV power and performance is astonishing, we just gotta get the charging and range sorted out. We’ll still have gas-powered muscle and exotics, but they’ll be specialty cars and not daily drivers.

Times change. Move forward, don’t cling to the past like painting a brand-new Porsche GT3 RS in a 55 year old ‘68 Gulf livery. SMH.

[–] shalafi 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Had an ex-friend of mine say electric cars would never have the torque of ICE. That sounds exactly backward to me. FFS, don't we drive warships with electric engines (in some cases)?

I know nothing about cars, but I've fiddled with DC motors since I was a child. Torque seems off the chain to me. Apply power, get scary force, instantly.

Am I misunderstanding something?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 5 points 9 months ago

They write multi-page articles extolling the virtues of performance in ICE cars.

EV outperform ICE in many performance metrics, especially torque. Suddenly ICE fans: “Performance doesn’t matter!”

It’s just missing that sound. There’s no doubt about, or getting around, that.