I can tell you this annoyance - if you're behind a Kia Niro EV and you wonder why the driver is braking from 70 to 30 randomly all the way down a totally clear motorway, it's not the driver. The car's cameras have spotted a shadow across the road and decided it's an obstruction and panicked.
It's like being driven by an inexperienced and terribly stoned driver, paranoid, jumping at shadows, hallucinating shit all over the place.
The ones we have at work keep pinging and beeping about all sorts of shit - oh you're too close to that car over there! (Yeah the road is really narrow, shut up, you're the same width as my Range Rover, you fit just fine). Hey watch out for that twig that's 50 metres away across the field! Oh you wanted to change lanes? I don't think so! OMG WATCH OUT FOR THAT CAR YOU'RE ABOUT TO HIT! (yes because you steered back towards it you stupid machine).
Hey you look tired you should take a break right now so I'm going to ping and beep and make the instrument panel flash until you do, even though we only left five minutes ago and there's still over three hours to go!
Fuck everything to do with them. They're exhausting and stressful to drive. I don't know how anyone can cope with EVs.
None of these are specific to EVs or necessary for EVs or really have anything to do with the car being an EV. You'll note that literally all of these things are both possible in an ICEV and are actually present in ICEVs.
I have never driven an ICEV with them, but I take your point.
My current daily driver is a 30-year-old Range Rover that has none of the annoying beepy flashy distract-o-trons. It's far safer for other road users than the Kia because there's not much to do other than look out of the very large completely unobstructed windows and observe other traffic.
That's the other thing I missed out about the Kia - the whole middle third of the windscreen is completely blocked by this huge camera pod thing with a tiny little mirror at the bottom, about a hand's width above the dashboard.
This camera pod takes up the space on the windscreen where I actually need to look for pedestrians at crossings.
> They're exhausting and stressful to drive. I don't know how anyone can cope with EVs.
It's specific brands, I'm happy with my Tesla (see my other comments).
I've driven a couple of Teslas and I can't say I'm a fan of the interior. I mean, I'm not a fan of Elon Musk either, but let's leave that aside for now.
They feel really cheap and flimsy inside, definitely not an 80 grand car.
I don't like the gigantic screen in the middle. I don't want any kind of lit-up screen in my car, for anything.
> They feel really cheap and flimsy inside, definitely not an 80 grand car.
The 80k cars were the early M3 performance I guess? The only one I see selling for ~80k now is the Cyber Truck, which I agree was a fail but for other reasons.
If you look at any other recent/modern car, ICE or EV, you'll find few brands have kept the "quality" interior that was characteristic of premium cars in ~2010 (yes, even German brands).
> I don't like the gigantic screen in the middle. I don't want any kind of lit-up screen in my car, for anything.
I understand the take, but since it's basically a must-have nowadays, I'd rather get the big high-res integrated Tesla experience rather than the Android Car / Apple CarPlay cheap mess. Consider that if you think it's a distraction for night-driving, Tesla will automatically switch to dark mode at sunset, and I've never had any trouble so far driving even on very dark roads. The brightest I've seen the screen at night is still way darker than my wife unlocking the mobile phone.