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.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    42·
    3 days ago

    The profit margins on cheap cars isn’t high enough yet to introduce EVs at that price.

    Closest you can probably get is the Corolla hybrid base model. It’s not full EV and sadly isn’t even a plugin hybrid.

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      There actually are super cheap evs at the no frills used car market price, they’re just illegal to import in the us due to protectionist policies.

    • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      The profit margins on cheap cars isn’t high enough yet to introduce EVs at that price.

      What price? OP does not talk about cost at any point, they only require specific features.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
        31·
        3 days ago

        “No frills”

        Right now EVs come with frills. The leaf, bolt, and that Mitsubishi golf cart were the no-frills EVs.

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      What do you mean? Dacia Spring exists and it starts at £15k. That’s pretty much a budget petrol car price.