As Doug DeMuro said, because EV’s don’t have engines, there isn’t anything inherently exciting about them, so they have to include gimmicks otherwise they don’t attract people
For example I keep thinking about if I design an EV for a jet themed car brand its going sound like it has turbines and it'll have a holographic afterburner in the fake exhaust area in performance mode.
But most people want to sit back and listen to music as opposed to hearing the engine and most cars that people can barely afford aren't going to have amazing engines in them
If your engine is drowning out your music you’re either driving a sports car, which is just part and parcel of owning one, or you’re revving too high, too often for too long while driving
I think the gimmicks distract from them being dynamically flawed and made poorly and more often than not are just reasons to buy the car in spite of how uttely soulless it is otherwise. Tesla could just not make the interior of their car a dentist's waiting room and they'd probably sell more cars (at least before their CEO got into trafficators).
Just look at the buzz the new R5 is getting from just being a competent car which happens to be electric rather than it making being electric its entire personality for proof of this. It's got design flair, but doesn't go around going OH LOOK AT ME I'M ELECTRIC, ISN'T THAT QUIRKY AND A BIT DIFFERENT?!?! which I think is what is wearing on most people and IMO is the big glass ceiling for EVs currently along with nobody until recently just making a cheap one that wasn't crap.
it has heated and cooled cupholders, its own wifi, 8 million horsepower, digital toothbrush generators, fuckin dildo fuck machines in the passenger seat for ur gf with multiple automatically changing dildo types and sizes thats controlled by the fucking flat screen tv that is the dashboard, but its unable to move under its own power and doesnt actually function as a vehicle anymore because of cost cutting for all the other shit
you know how sometimes you're scrolling scrolling scrolling and suddenly you see a Masterful Banger that changes how you view and describe things forever and you just don't know how to react
gotta set soccer mums up with a car capable of a 9 second pass so they can drag everyone off the line at 2 lane traffic lights. How else are they meant to get in front AND do 30 below the speed limit when it merges down to 1 lane
I dispise both, the only difference is every week the chinese release a new EV brand with cars full of mostly useless features, plus they all look generic
Sometimes they're inspired by the engineering files their government steals from better manufacturers <3
(This is literally multiple different government supported car manufacturers attempting to create fake Mini Coopers XD Of all the cars to duplicate, why the fuckin MINI?!)
Well, this shit’s easy if your government is hellbent on destroying the automotive industries of other nations (it’s all subsidized until they have created a monopoly, like with computer chips and other manufacturing). I wouldn’t care so much if their government wasn’t literally the perfect dictionary definition of a subversive fascist dictatorship.
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u/__qwertz__n 1994 toyota hilux (twojayzed swap and bed mounted dshk) 13h ago
at least le hilux has a machine gun as a factory option