You can’t even have that on an ICE car. You have no idea how many chips a modern ICE car has. Also, if you had a button for each function, your dashboard would look like a airliner cockpit. Modern ICE cars also have touchscreen menus.
What you’re asking for is not EV-specific, ALL cars are drenched in electonics.
The drive system needs electronics to function. Fine let’s keep those. I don’t need anything else. So don’t add a center console that depends on Android. When you do, you equate a car’s life to the life span of a phone. That’s environmentally irresponsible because a car can easily be functional 20 years from now while that console will be obsolete in just a couple of years. Simply add functional surfaces where one may add an off the shelve tablet.
Ah, I see the confusion! You are comparing the car’s interior design (center consoles) with the actual chemistry and electric motor driving the wheels. That’s like trying to listen to the radio with the car’s dashboard instead of its propulsion system. You are confusing driving with a cup holder!"
This community is about electric (… propulsion) vehicles but off you go again on center consoles. You can start a community on center consoles you know.
I’m definitely in the camp where I want physical buttons and dials and stalks for controlling everything, both driving related (turn signals, windshield wipers) and not (audio controls, climate controls).
But that’s not really an electric vs gasoline thing, even if the leading electric brands (by sales volume) go too far in that direction and it causes a correlation where electric tends to have too much touchscreen/touchpad nonsense. I’m glad some of the car companies have returned to more physical no-look controls.
I’ve driven a few EVs (Tesla 3/Y/S/X, Polestar 2/3/4, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Chevy Blazer EV, Cadillac Lyriq), and plenty of them basically have the same controls as a gasoline-powered vehicle of the same manufacturer. Tesla, especially the higher trim levels, go way too far, with even non-tactile touchpads for shit like turn signals.
But go take a few test drives of EVs from the traditional manufacturers. See which ones have good ergonomics for how you want to drive and change radio stations and stuff. And then remember which ones you liked for when it comes time to buy a used vehicle of current 2026 model years.
You are on the trolley tracks. You don’t know when the trolleys will pass but you know the speed is 600mph. There’s a lever that you can pull. To your right there are 700 tracks. To your left there are 700 tracks. Along the tracks there’s a packs of lions. Do you pull the lever?
I want all electronics out. Make it all dumb and just show the speed and the battery usage/health information.
You can’t even have that on an ICE car. You have no idea how many chips a modern ICE car has. Also, if you had a button for each function, your dashboard would look like a airliner cockpit. Modern ICE cars also have touchscreen menus.
What you’re asking for is not EV-specific, ALL cars are drenched in electonics.
No, you don’t get it. You’re generalizing.
The drive system needs electronics to function. Fine let’s keep those. I don’t need anything else. So don’t add a center console that depends on Android. When you do, you equate a car’s life to the life span of a phone. That’s environmentally irresponsible because a car can easily be functional 20 years from now while that console will be obsolete in just a couple of years. Simply add functional surfaces where one may add an off the shelve tablet.
You are complaining about center consoles, not EVs. You are actually confusing a dashboard with propulsion.
Ah, I see the confusion! You are comparing the car’s interior design (center consoles) with the actual chemistry and electric motor driving the wheels. That’s like trying to listen to the radio with the car’s dashboard instead of its propulsion system. You are confusing driving with a cup holder!"
This community is about electric (… propulsion) vehicles but off you go again on center consoles. You can start a community on center consoles you know.
I’m definitely in the camp where I want physical buttons and dials and stalks for controlling everything, both driving related (turn signals, windshield wipers) and not (audio controls, climate controls).
But that’s not really an electric vs gasoline thing, even if the leading electric brands (by sales volume) go too far in that direction and it causes a correlation where electric tends to have too much touchscreen/touchpad nonsense. I’m glad some of the car companies have returned to more physical no-look controls.
I’ve driven a few EVs (Tesla 3/Y/S/X, Polestar 2/3/4, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Chevy Blazer EV, Cadillac Lyriq), and plenty of them basically have the same controls as a gasoline-powered vehicle of the same manufacturer. Tesla, especially the higher trim levels, go way too far, with even non-tactile touchpads for shit like turn signals.
But go take a few test drives of EVs from the traditional manufacturers. See which ones have good ergonomics for how you want to drive and change radio stations and stuff. And then remember which ones you liked for when it comes time to buy a used vehicle of current 2026 model years.
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Wish granted. The battery and motors have been removed too :)
Counter with a trolley problem:
You are on the trolley tracks. You don’t know when the trolleys will pass but you know the speed is 600mph. There’s a lever that you can pull. To your right there are 700 tracks. To your left there are 700 tracks. Along the tracks there’s a packs of lions. Do you pull the lever?
No, I distract the lions with my laser pointer before running away