Porsche doesn't see the point of fake gear shifts on its EVs

Porsche stopped exploring the fake shifter concept at its idea stage.

According to media reports, Porsche initially had plans to put a simulated gear shifter on its sporty electric vehicles. However, the company later dropped the idea, deeming it counter-intuitive.

Porsche does not see the need to adopt fake gear shifters on its performance EVs, similar to those found on the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. Lars Kern, Development Driver at Porsche, stated, "Obviously, we look into what the competition does, but our perspective on this is always why should we make something worse?"

He added that the carmaker doesn't see the point of making an EV feel like a combustion engine-powered vehicle because it simply isn't. Kern stated, "I mean because, in like just how it translates power or how power is applied? The electric engine is better than an ICE [internal combustion engine], so we figured there's no reason to simulate what has been in the past." He further added, "We don't want to fake the combustion engine because we still produce combustion engines, so we don't we don't see the point of doing it."

The development driver also confirmed that Porsche stopped exploring the fake shifter concept at its idea stage. Hence, it didn't build a prototype of its own simulated gear shifter. Kern even mentioned, "We drove the Hyundai [Ioniq 5] N, and had a look at it, and, obviously, there's always people who think that's a good idea and there's always people I think it's a bad idea."

He stated, "We don't try to make the electric car feel like a combustion engine, so that's why we just didn't follow up on that."

Source: Drive.au