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RJ Scaringe: Companies Are Copying Tesla Too Much
(cleantechnica.com)
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Love it. Charging kinda sucks but I have a second car if that is going to be a problem. I have a lead foot and I love how much jam it has out of the hole. One thing that people don't seem to talk about is how awesome dual motor all wheel drive is. The Subaru gets both motors going almost all the time. I'm actually glad I didn't get a 400HP EV, as I would be roasting tires off left and right.
It doesn't really have anything weird that a gas car doesn't as far as creature comforts. The interior looks a little different, but has the normal buttons and screen integrated in the dash. It behaves by default like a normal car too. If you let off the brakes it will creep by default. Regen braking and one-pedal are off by default too.
It's not perfect but most of the issues people complain about (aside from range and charge time) are not major.
It's really nice how nicely electric torque in general works in cars. Even really weak sounding ev is usually comfortable in common traffic. Where the power becomes limiting is accelerating on highways or such. Daily drive mostly just takes some torque. We're just so used to thinking small engines are annoying, but that's just an ICE problem, like idling and direction changes and waste heat output.