The pedal does not directly control the motor, it inputs a TPS to prevent burnouts. Transmissions don't cause a delay, the progressive torque curve of ICE makes multi speed transmissions necessary. The instant power of EVs is one reason Tesla owners have the highest crash rates.

You can find soo many more openings in traffic,

Please, please, please don't do that. Cars are dangerous things and when traffic is so close that you're looking for openings, it is too congested to get in there. Safety should be your first priority and that means you're looking for openings that even a car with a tiny little one liter engine it has more than enough space to get in. If there isn't a big gap, just sit back and wait for one, It's a sign that your city needs more roads. Not a little more roads like the people say one more lane, a lot more lanes. Generally by the time people are asking for one more lane, they need five times as many lanes. Yes, that's expensive, maybe you should look into public transit instead.

Great safely folks. I've lost enough friends to drivers who were in a hurry. Please don't add another one to that list.

this shows most clearly when you’re starting from a complete stop.

Yes, I have this exact feeling the most when I'm stopped completely at a bigger road I drive into. It's just so damned easy and smooth compared to an ICE car.

The ID.4 isn't amazing in acceleration it's only 204 hp. But that's still enough to make it faster than our old Ice car that was 160 hp.
In European terms that makes it go 0-100 km/t in 8,5 sec. That's less than half a second faster than the old ICE car.
BUT, the acceleration is always instantly ready, and it's so quit I barely hear it inside the car.
We could have had a car that goes from 0-100 in less than 5 seconds for the same price, but we chose not to, for 2 reasons, number one I've seen neighbors have stupid things happen because they accelerated too quickly, like a small garden trailer turning over for going too fast through a roundabout. And quite frankly, I know myself well enough to know that I would have a very hard time not to give it a bit of pedal occasionally. The 2nd is that insurance on those faster cars is twice the insurance of our more moderate car.

But despite that, I agree that the acceleration is cool, because it's always ready, it's plenty fast IMO, and it quiet.
AND I also noticed that a bit of acceleration doesn't kill the economy nearly as much as it does in an ICE car. The efficiency when accelerating is way better.

Why yes. Yes I do say that.

Retail sales of the battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models qualifying for the incentive fell 26.6% and 13.9% year over year, respectively. Even with those declines, electrified vehicles, including BEVs, PHEVs and hybrids (HEVs), accounted for 26.9% of U.S. retail sales in the second quarter of 2026, according to Urban Science’s daily new-vehicle sales data through June 30, 2026.

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If you're interested, this article has a great breakdown on the LDLS aspects of the car market right now.

I'm sorry, I can't hear your reasonable desires and lamentations for the state of the industry, I'm too busy doing a 3.5s 0-100km in The Absolute Most Confusing EV Ever Produced

I mean admittedly I absolutely want one (lmao not for $115k) but only for the sheer perversity of it (it is objectively worse than any other option. On several metrics it even manages to suck worse than the cybertruck). And since I'm not exactly a member of a large demographic, certainly not large enough to support an entire product line like this, I'm damned curious just what the fuck market segment they think they're targeting with this one.

Overweight and slow.

I hardly ever see EV charging stations where I live. You claim people can charge when they're out doing things but that 100% is not the case. It heavily depends on where you live.

Every time someone mentions something like that, I just ask them if they use their truck to haul something more than once a month. You can rent a pickup truck from Uhaul for a day for $20. Some Home Depot and Lowe's locations also offer truck rentals. Unless you're using that truck to haul something at least weekly, it doesn't really make sense to drive that gas guzzler all the time compared to basically anything else.