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?

  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I would convert a manual transmission car to electric, and hook the electric motor up to the input shaft on the transmission just to be perverse.

    • gordon@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Many people do just that. There are whole companies that will sell you adapters to allow you to do this. You can even go without a clutch to save a lot of rotating weight if you don’t mind having to finesse the pedal a bit when shifting.