I am an old gearhead from way way back. Raced in the Sixties, build my own engines & tranny's, Alfa, Porsche, Cosworth etc. To me the sound of a flat plane crank big V-8 winding up, or the lovely howl of a Ferrari V-12 is the best sound ever.
However, physics shows us that an electric motor with its lovely torque curve is the only way to go. Batteries are their only limitation and that technology is moving faster than ever expected.
Had a ride in a Tesla 3, and a Taycan recently. They, or something like them are the future; nae doot aboot it. Fabulous.
Hey, I'm an old gear head too. Owned a '71 Mach 1 with a rebuilt 351 Cleveland mated to a 5 speed gear box, and a '71 Chevelle SS with enough power to light up a small town. And yeah no doubt some of the EVs are quite fast, impressively fast. But that wasn't my point. My point was the idiocy of the twats who say that no one needs a semi-automatic rifle and then get all excited about an EV just because it does 0-60 in 3 seconds or less. Using the leftist anti-gun logic one can just as easily state that no one needs a street vehicle capable of doing 0-60 that quickly. Yet how many of the anti-gun crowd would run out and buy one if they could afford it? I can think of at least 2 or 3 in here.
You know what's funny though? About 25 or so years ago I wrote both the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Safety and asked them, with the highest posted speed limit in Canada (at the time) being 120 kph, why did they permit the sale of cars that were capable of going twice that speed and more? Neither one answered.
To me anyway it seems like a logic gap. Recently I was watching video of a new Dodge Hellcat tearing up a Texas (IIRC) highway. It was moving so fast the news plane covering the story couldn't keep up with it and it was doing 135 mph. The highest posted speed limit I've seen in the US is 80 mph.
But like I said, I do love fast cars. My dream is to drive the Nordschleife track in a classic Mustang GT Shelby KR 750. And while I like fast cars I also only like driving them that fast when I'm not on public roads and highways. If I want to unwind my car and risk only my life and health that's my choice. I don't have the right to risk the lives of others nor have I ever felt self-entitled enough to not give a shit. Unfortunately, there's a significant number of drivers on the road, and growing, who just don't feel or care about that level of responsibility behind the wheel.