EVs are in fact “real cars”
Appliance’s or toy cars are the monikers thrown out by petrol heads. In fact I would argue that EVs are the type of vehicle ICE developers were trying to design in the early days. For all their complexity traditional engines have a simple goal to spin an axle quickly and efficiently. I find it kind of ridiculous that motoring lovers would eschew the electric motor purely based on the fact that it’s less complex. I get there’s a clockwork-like beauty in the modern engine. But technology has moved on. It seems to me that because they don’t understand how these electric systems work it’s not “real engineering” which couldn’t be further from the truth.
My question is this. Why would anyone prefer a noisy, oily, high maintenance, polluting and inefficient engine over a smooth, simple, clean and efficient one?