The main point is getting 99% of consumer transport electrified. If you take your old stick shift gas car out for a 100 mile drive once a month, who cares. Yo

The main point is getting 99% of consumer transport electrified. If you take your old stick shift gas car out for a 100 mile drive once a month, who cares. You'll have plenty of cars to pick from when EVs start ushering out the old dirtburners into obsolescence. Hopefully the EV drivetrain gets so cheap that it becomes a tsunami. It's not like EVs won't be fun to drive with low center of gravity skateboards and hyperfast acceleration. I would guess that after a few decades of driving EVs, the ICEs and their gear shifts and smell will quickly lose their charm with practically everyone. I hope that with a really cheap and compact EV motor+battery, classic cars get massively retrofitted to be electic. You already see it in some auction cars. An electric motor is not that big. If/when a good compact solid state battery is mass produced, then you can probably cobbly a kit for the standard engine mounts that has the electric motor + batteries in one engine block replacement kit. They can pipe in simulated engine block sound. I will so miss stick shift however.