I’ve seen this mentioned, but I don’t think I’ve heard a proper explanation. Are there some expected complications with integrating an automatic that should be avoided? I’ve never driven a manual car so if I’m gonna buy a car to convert it’d probably be my first manual drive vehicle.
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The majority of EVs have fixed ratio gears. They might be listed on AutoTrader as automatic but that’s not really the case. This is because the electric motors have such wide torque and efficiency curves there wouldn’t be a benefit, and a changeable ratio box would add complexity and losses and potentially require maintenance.
Thus, when converting a fossil car, you can replace the engine with the electric motor and simply leave the manual gearbox in a fixed ratio. That said, some conversions have kept the gearstick as much for driver satisfaction as anything.
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