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> nobody is doing much to make an electric car pretend to be something it's not This is actually one of the aspects of the Leaf that most impressed/surprised m
by bacon_waffle 6y ago
> nobody is doing much to make an electric car pretend to be something it's not
This is actually one of the aspects of the Leaf that most impressed/surprised me - Nissan put a lot of thought in to making it behave like an ICE car with an automatic/CV transmission.
For example, when the car is in D mode, sitting on flat ground, if you take your foot off the brake, it'll roll forward at low power. Similarly, taking your foot off the accelerator while rolling faster will apply just a little bit of regeneration.
- fy20 6y agoThe Prius has that too. It doesn't need to, but as you say, they wanted it to feel like a regular car.
- viraptor 6y agoIt makes more sense to me to be honest. If I want to roll just a little bit to get a better position in a parking box, I don't want my foot to leave the break or be super careful about accelerating. I want to just barely move / not-be-stopped, and this implementation works just fine.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoYeah, my father-in-law drives an automated manual car which doesn't do this automatically. It's actually a strange car to drive because of that, it also changes at a snails pace so you have to drive pretty leasurely. Our car which is the Ford Power shift dual clutch system which changes pretty much seamlessly and does creep on its own.
- alasdair_ 6y agoDon't all electric cars do this? I know all Teslas have this option (you can disable it in settings if you wish).