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?
If an electric vehicle:
- Wasn’t an SUV or CUV
- Didn’t have a giant touchscreen with a Big Brother OS
- Didn’t cost over $40,000 for a good one
I’d buy one. As it stands I’m buying a used GTI tomorrow, mainly because it’s a stick shift and I miss that, and also because my GF got a job and needs to use my other car to commute. It’s basically the car I’ve wanted since I was sixteen so I’m pretty stoked.
Used Polestar 2 fits except for the screen.
They might do well with a “classic” version with less tech inside.
Can I get one for under $12k. Because that’s what I’m getting my GTI for.
Na more like 35k for a 2022.
But you just moved the goalpost from 40k to 12k 🤔
We have a 2013 Leaf. Cost us $8k seven years ago, battery’s as good as it ever was, great around town or commuter for a 50 mile round trip commute (longer without defrost the whole way). Seriously the most fun car I’ve driven since our old manual bmw. The newer ones have bigger batteries if you drive more each day.
no.
Only if its a hybrid that uses capacitors and a high output engine that only charges the capacitors.
So you get like 30-60 seconds of continuous insane power that you can put to the wheels, but after that the engine has to recharge the capacitors and provide enough to barely accelerate at the speed of like a a big semi without a hefty engine.
The trick is since you’re not always doing WOT, you can effectively get ridiculous performance and really good MPG so long as you treat your capacitors like a boost meter that recharges.
Regular hybrids already do this, but they use normal Li batteries which usually requires that the engine also be able to directly power the wheels which adds complexity and cost.
It’s kind of like how the ships works in Elite Dangerous lol.
When I bought my current car, I was looking for an electrical solution, but there was none. All tiny matchboxes on wheels, no space, no comfortable height to enter or leave the car for people with handycaps.
I have now seen the ID Buzz. Big enough? Just about. But it cost three times what I paid for my car, with half the options, and is butt ugly on top. As if it was designed to look horrible.
Can’t afford one
