Overview:
Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
Related communities:
This will prob have a monthly subscription.
If you don't pay you are stuck in first.
Also if you downshift too aggressively & over-rev, the ~~engine~~ motors will explode.
This is idiotic.
I can imagine a world where paddle shifters control throttle and regen behavior. Like "downshifting" from a gentle lift and coast to heavy regen-braking in steps, same with "upshifting" from max torque to gentle eco-mode. Would make EVs even more amazing for people like me actually.
But this, this is stupid.
As stupid as calling an EV "Turbo"?
Porsche lost the plot a long time ago.
im only down for this only if they give is the same 20+ gears they had in the Fast and the Furious movies.
or every racing movie...he's going to lose...oh wait, he has six more gears and he forgot to use the gas pedal!!
or every racing movie
Ehm, no, it's actually every movie that has a car engine sound.
Flat road with constant speed?
Jup, periodic constant upshifting.
It's infinite gears. You upshift and the simulated revs drop then roar up again, even if you're not accelerating. Then it does it every time you shift until you get bored.
And don't forget all the reverse gears
Car people vs. normal people lol
As an infrequent driver I really enjoy not needing to shift
I guess some people really like leaving some performance on the table
You don’t buy a manual car because it’s faster.
You buy it because it’s more fun.
As a manual car owner and sincere enjoyer: it’s utterly stupid to simulate a transmission’s acceleration behavior in an electric car. It’s entirely artificial and synthetic, and not only irrelevant and unconnected to the mechanics of the drivetrain in anything more than a cosmetic sense, but also a detriment to performance. This is simulating how it feels to drive a car with a PDK in it, and some paddles. That’s it. It’s even more stupid than the flappy paddles and faked gearing they put into Subaru’s CVTs - that at least has an auditory component as a justification.
Hyundai did this with the Ioniq-N. They faked the noise, vibration, even a rev limiter.
Where this is going: Electric cars blended with driving simulators.
But in a manual car you’re the reason why it’s slower.
In an EV (or CVT) dumb programming is why it’s slower.
It’s still more fun with the shift points.
Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.
Motorcycle are more fun and cheaper.
And deadlier
buses are safer.
Isn't that part of the fun?
Manuals can still be faster if you know you're about to put your foot down, and you're in the cheaper end of the market.
As someone that dailys a manual and has previously daily'ed a Dual Clutch "EcoShift" Veloster, manual is not faster even if you prep your downshift ahead of time.
Porches are not typically on that end honestly.
They know that male Porsche owners will only play with this type of stick with a big knob on top.
you mean a 3/4 scale model of that.
So lame.