I buy manuals. I have an EV.

With electric there is no need for a manual. True enthusiasts will prefer an ICE version for that.

We don’t need a 4 speed gearbox in a EV. But a simple planetary 2 speed for off road vehicles could mean an improved crawl mode. Right now they burn battery like crazy at low speed trail crawling because the motors aren’t that efficient doing that. Watch a Rivian off road and it’s struggling to keep the wheels…

While you do get maximum torque (but not power) at 0 rpm, electric motors do not have the same efficiency across all rpms. So you could conceivably want a transmission to help with efficiency. But the drop in efficiency is so small with these motors, that it’s debatable whether a transmission is useful. Porsche Taycan…

We are talking EVs here: No manual, and no automatic is needed.

You know what would be even cooler than a clutch on an EV?

A clutch on a CT4.

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No one is buying manuals. The people who are, are not looking to buy an EV.

Seems weird but automatics already shift better and faster than manuals and some of us still buy manuals and will accept no substitutes.

weight will be solved naturally over time as battery innovations continue, and most car companies aren’t at the cutting edge of battery tech. They need the technology to be perfected elsewhere before licensing. 

Second vote. There’s no transmission. You don’t need any extra bits that do exactly nothing. And how is driving an EV boring?  The acceleration is as addictive as any other drug.

As a vote of 1, intentionally building in inefficiency seems odd to me; I was all for the idea of a “Manual” EV at first but now even things like paddle shifters seem silly. Unless the motiv units require it, I would rather the focus be on lightweight tossability and feedback (which many of the EVs are lacking right…

Behold this from Chrysler Cirrus. My GF at the time had one that ate batteries. Fun.

I’ve got plenty of design flaws to roast them on. Relatedly. The interior door opening buttons in the S/X are capacitive sensors, which is just awful. 3 years later I still occasionally miss the button when getting out of the car. The 3/Y have totally reasonable buttons that you can open without having to look at…

Well… this is the most terrifying entry.

I trust tesla_fan to be unbiased on this topic.

Any car where the battery is in a place that isn’t easily and readily accessible.

1996 Mustang GT used a plastic lower intake plenum...with coolant lines running thru it. Guess what happened when that plastic heated up and cooled down over several engine cycles?

When I first saw your post, I thought it was gonna be about how Scion made that third brake light go across the trunk...then failed to actually have the LEDs inside of it do the same:

The door handles of most new EVs. They don’t need to be like that. Stop reinventing the wheel. Mach-E, why? Ioniq 5, why? Cadillac Lyriq, why? (Ok they’re fixing the Lyriq handles) Every Tesla, why? Uber had to start sending an alert letting riders know how to open the door handles if the uber was a Model 3/Y. Why can…

1990-2010 plastic parts in the engine bay. I’m looking at you BMW and VAG and your crappy plastic dipstick tubes, plastic water pump impellers, plastic EVERYTHING.