I really don’t understand why car guys haven’t become completely obsessed with EVs. They are so much more powerful every practical way.
I’m a car guy, and electric cars have taken high performance to the next level for sure. However, apart from being spectacularly useful appliances, I have less interest in them these days. They’re typically much heavier than conventional ICE vehicles, which makes the handling less refined, there is no manual transmission to row through the gears, and they don’t make the cool sounds that ICE vehicles make.
Think of it like the transition from self-winding mechanical watches to quartz movements. Quartz watches are infinitely more accurate and reliable, yet if you’re a watch aficionado, it’s the high-end mechanical watches that you lust after. Simply put, electric vehicles lack the analog tactile engagement of ICE vehicles.
^ This guy analogs.
For real though, this is why when I eventually electric convert my car, I’m not bypassing the transmission. I want to emulate the flywheel in the electric motor converter and treat the electric system like a spinning mass (including emulating stalls to avoid over stressing the power train). Then I can do fun things like just have a dial for emulated horsepower or a turbo switch for starters.
Been a car guy for many years, and my next project will be an ev.
Not sure what yet, but there’s a lot of classic conversions happening, and Ford sells a e crate motor now.
Despite the obvious political divide in the US, part of it might be that you can’t tune it or mod it yourself.
Think of them as gaming PCs in terms of customization and performance options. I know people who rebuilt their cars over and over, and even tweak the most minor injection timing to get the most out of it.
Outside of a Plaid or anything in that ballpark, a custom built ICE Mustang will probably smoke something like a EV6 GT in a quarter mile by a second or two. If you could realistically rebuild and mod your EV6 it might be a different story, but instead you get drift mode on that specific model because an executive deemed it so. In this sense the EV6 is a Chromebook. The Mustang runs Linux. The car guys are nerds.
I’m in your camp, I fucking love not having a transmission and being “speedy” in all of my practical daily driving. I’ll never rebuild a Mustang, but if there were an open sourced EV I could mod I’d be there in a heartbeat - and I bet some car guys might come over too.
The car guys I know like them all, was just looking at the new corvette with like 1200 HP 1000 from the ice with 200 HP assist from electric it’s nuts
Godspeed you crazy bastards. Glory be to the Ford super series vehicles. I’m glad they’ve still got a “Fuck it, we ball” division. Shelby would be proud.
The current record is an EV as well, right? VW IIRC
