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?
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?
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.