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Question of the Month: Will the next car you purchase be an EV or a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?

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e14 Question of the Month

Fast chargers and improvements in battery technology are alleviating some of the concerns that people have with EVs; however, hybrids and ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles can still be great cars.  Take the poll and let us know what kind of car you would buy, and please tell us why in the Comments section below! 

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  • 0 in reply to obones

    All the internal combustion engine vehicles I've ever owned/driven have had the ability to place the gearbox in neutral, mechanically isolating the engine from the driven wheels. The embedded electronics have no means of placing the vehicle in gear or preventing me from taking it out of gear. 

    Luckily I've never had an internal combustion engine vehicle with electrically operated gearbox that would allow embedded electronics to shift into gear or prevent me from taking it out of gear.

  • 0 in reply to beacon_dave

    Electrically operated gearboxes in cars has been a thing for years: I had a Jaguar XF back in 2009 with one.  In fact, I'm trying to remember if I've had an automatic which wasn't electronic and software driven but I don't think I have and that's casting my mind back to 2004.  Even on my EV now, I can put the car into neutral.  There are no "stepped gears" in it naturally, essentially it is equivalent to continuously variable, but all that is really happening is the motor is running faster or slower.  Of course, the software on any of these gearboxes could prevent a shift into neutral when underway but that's a software thing, not an EV/ICE thing.