A fake manual transmission for your EV?
The Japanese automaker is reportedly working on a manual transmission for electric cars. Will the stick-obsessed be willing to play make-believe?. But for a small and shrinking group of drivers, the answer to that is “from my cold, dead hands.”
That’s a trend that’s been happening for years, although the auto industry’s wide-scale transition toward EVs is shifting it into overdrive.For decades, the manual was the cheaper transmission for cars, leaving fancy, high-tech automatic gearboxes for those willing to pay extra. The manual is even still pervasive in some new car markets, like Europe and South America. They often got better fuel economy than automatics, too.
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