I'm stuck on this personally. I love my manual, I have a tiny little Mazda 2 and I have driven that thing absolutely everywhere because I can control it better than any automatic I've ever driven. But I've been casually looking for a new car and I'd love to have an electric, but I don't want to lose that level of control and everything I love about a manual.

What do you all think? What's your take?

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[–] phant@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a daily rider/commuter by motorcycle and I'd love to get an electric bike. I don't think I'd miss shifting gears at all, but (and I've been thinking about this) I think I'd like to have some kind of electric "clutch" that doesn't work at all like a regular clutch but performs a similar function. In this case it would adjust the throttle map. Clutch full in = throttle does nothing. Clutch full out = aggressive or linear throttle map. I have not actually ridden any of the high end e-motos to know if this is necessary, but in my mind I would miss the ability to feather the clutch.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If you do a lot of off road riding you will probably eat shit with an electric bike at least at first due to having clutch-feathering muscle memory, and that functionality not being there anymore. That, or if you like to do wheelies you are undoubtedly going to loop yourself the first time you try it on such a hypothetical bike with loads of torque and no clutch.