Older EV conversions often kept the stick shift, but you had to know what you were doing while driving (foot off the accelerator in neutral!) A few years ago I

Older EV conversions often kept the stick shift, but you had to know what you were doing while driving (foot off the accelerator in neutral!) A few years ago I read _Life with an Electric Car_ by Noel Perrin, which is a fascinating look into the re-emergence of EVs and the limitations of early 90s battery technology. His car was a ~1990 Ford Escort which had been converted to battery power by a company in California, and his goal was to pick it up at the factory and drive it home to Vermont. I'm still not completely ready for an all-electric future, but the book did make me appreciate how far energy storage has progressed in the last 30 years.