I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?
I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?
cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/2362831
I don't know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.
I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don't need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don't need a movie theater on wheels.
Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That's what I want.
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yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME
and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control
not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move
why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-Kia and Hyundai EVs tend to have physical controls for most things
But how much are they tracking you?
What's a PRNDL?
Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low (gear). The 5 "standard" positions the standard automatic gearshift levers could be set to. Versus the weird stuff like dials or push-buttons that are incredibly hard to operate by muscle-memory if you aren't looking right at them.
EVs have no gears, they don't need this stuff. Or they have a manual simulation.
EVs have no gears
GOOD THING THESE AREN'T GEARS THEN, FUCKO
THEY'RE MODE SELECTIONSEVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse.
EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the "regenerative braking" system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode.
EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive."Low" in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as "single pedal driving" where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.
Just gotta say I’m here for this energy
thank you for understanding the intended tone (and kinda just a little bit making my day :3)
It seems to me that you don't understand how EVs work. They don't have gears (usually) and they don't have a constantly running combustion engine.
Neutral and park (park is just neutral with a break automatically applied) do not exist in EVs, because EVs don't have a constantly running engine. You only need neutral to disengage the clutch to prevent its wear during stops, because always running engine means that the car is always moving. That's not happening in EVs.
And you don't need low/boost because EVs don't have gears.
So, you only have reverse and drive.
Huh, my EV also has neutral and park. It can be very useful to yet the wheels freewheel or to lock the wheels. However no PRNDL shifter control for usability
You can't freewheel on EV, there's no mechanism for that. You can have a software simulation though, but it's not needed for anything.
When mine is configured for aggressive regen, it slows the vehicle to a stop. You couldn’t push the car, for example
That's just a software feature, not a real neutral.
Yea of course it is a "software" feature every motor in a ev is controlled by software that switches power electronics. "Dissconnecting" the phases of the motor so it wont recoup while is spins is still neutral. Or is "neutral" only a thing that a automatic transmission can do? If i put my manual out of gear is it then not in neutral? People dont want the manufacturer to install a clutch to physicly dissconnect the motors from the drivetrain but they want to be able to let the car roll without it braking by recharging the battery or dumping the power as heat into the powerstage.
And by the way yes most evs still habe gears just with a fixed ratio because if the motor was directly connected to your axle full motor rpm would be way faster than your max road speed you can drive.
Yeah, actually a low mode would be useful for exactly this, in exactly the same use cases as for ICE cars. Whatever my regen is configured as, if I’m heading down a steep icy hill, maybe I could use an easy way to maximize regen. Heck maybe my battery is not warmed up yet so I don’t have effective regen, but I could really use it for that hill even if that battery can’t use it
This is forever burned into my head. I've not really watched that series and I remember nothing else. Just PRNDL.
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I've heard pronounced "pendler"), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.
