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Gear shifting it's still a thing in Europe, and mandatory if you want to get your driver's license.
by anthk 1y ago
Gear shifting it's still a thing in Europe, and mandatory if you want to get your driver's license.
- prmoustache 1y agoyou can get a driver license with an automatic. But it just means you can only drive automatics. It would have been a huge deal not being able to drive manuals 20y ago but hybrid and ev all being automatic it is not that much of a downside nowadays unless you want to buy old cars or borrow friend's car. Most renting fleets have autos available nowadays.
- pjmlp 1y agoOur family owns a Ford Focus hybrid in Europe, I can tell you they are not all automatic.
- inkyoto 1y agoAt this point, it is a historical artefact that will cease to exist soon enough. Electric vehicles do not have gearboxes as there are no converters, so there is nothing to shift up or down. A few performance EV's that have been announced (and maybe even have released) with a gear stick, do so for nostalgic reasons and the gear shift + the accompanying experience is simulated entirely in the software.
- zelos 1y agoThe Porsche Taycan has two forward gears, but it's apparently the only EV that does: https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmission-gearbox/ https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmiss...
- lesny_ludek 1y agoNew Mercedes CLA has that too
- pjmlp 1y agoAt the rate EV are being sold in Europe, that soon enough is a couple of decades away. I certainly don't plan to buy anything but hybrids, until EV prices and ranges are at comparable levels. Our current hybrid has a six gear box.