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I'll go one farther, and say I actively do not want those luxury features. I like maintaining my cars, and the addition of all these systems makes it that much more complicated.
All I am looking for is reliability! The only fancy feature I'd add would be a beeping backup sensor. But no camera. Heck, I'm fine with manual door locks and no AC.
I would have purchased an electric vehicle long before now if I could get one without a touchscreen. But alas, I am stuck in thee land of mega trucks known as the US.
I do get that. Less things in the car means less things that can break which yea, I'm all for to a point. I just can't take heat, I need the ac man.
And I would love to have an electric car if I drove less than 100 miles a day, if chargers were more common, if all chargers used the same common charger port and connector, and if I had a house go charge if at. Also if swaping batteries wasnt a nightmare. That should be the easiest thing to do on an electric car aside from maintaining motors or swapping other common components.