Manuals will always be unmatched for driving pleasure, but electric and hybrid cars usually don't have automatic transmissions, they have CVTs, which are better than automatics IMHO.

They don't have gears to switch between, so you usually don't feel any shifting, just regular progression. If you input maximum acceleration they may reach the redline without changing the ratio and then drop down suddenly, in that case you feel sort of a shift, but that's rare if you drive normally.