Okay, but that's not inherently tied to being electric.

You are correct that there's no engineering reason that mechanical features should be tied to being electric, but the part you're missing is that "should" doesn't matter. Drive-by-wire IS tied to EVs and will always be so because EVs are fundamentally a political construction designed as a battering ram against ICE.* They're only manufactured due to a combination of regulation and subsidies, and every mover and shaker in the industry looks at them ideologically. They're not particularly shy about it either. Elon has bragged about high EV adoption rates in Norway when he knows full well that EVs have been made almost mandatory there.

*the politics lean towards automation with the goal of banning manually driven cars.

So while it's technically possible to design an EV with mechanical features, I doubt it will ever be a strong competitor (if it will even be designed).

again, same with an ICE engine with some basic precautions. Also what's with this bizare fear of ten minute cities? Out of all of our concerns that's among the lowest.

It's one of our lowest concerns in large part because it's logistically infeasible to control mass numbers of people with technology. That's where mass EV adoption would come in.

Setting aside OS updates to cars, the logistics of controlling the electric grid are far superior to the gas system and have already been used to control people's behavior on a mass scale.

most driving takes place at low throttle anyway, it wouldn't be in the wrong RPM range, you just wouldn't have much as much power. a throttle is basically an adjustable restrictor plate.

Gearing makes throttle restrictions difficult. Without enough RPM you'll be lugging the engine when switching gears, or just lugging the engine in normal operation under different conditions like an overtake.

Most turbos are designed for low end fuel economy now days so no real concern there, and for the sports cars thats just extra incentive to pay for the throttle unlock subscription and there's no reason that the software couldn't be designed to still allow the computers to blip the throttle past the usual limit to shift.

Sports car turbos would be undrivable under that system with the inconsistent boost kick you would get.

Okay, but that's not inherently tied to being electric.

You are correct that there's no engineering reason that mechanical features should be tied to being electric, but the part you're missing is that "should" doesn't matter. Drive-by-wire IS tied to EVs and will always be so because EVs are fundamentally a political construction designed as a battering ram against ICE. They're only manufactured due to a combination of regulation and subsidies, and every mover and shaker in the industry looks at them ideologically. They're not particularly shy about it either. Elon has bragged about high EV adoption rates in Norway when he knows full well that EVs have been made almost mandatory there.

So while it's technically possible to design an EV with mechanical features, I doubt it will ever be a strong competitor (if it will even be designed).

again, same with an ICE engine with some basic precautions. Also what's with this bizare fear of ten minute cities? Out of all of our concerns that's among the lowest.

It's one of our lowest concerns in large part because it's logistically infeasible to control mass numbers of people with technology. That's where mass EV adoption would come in.

Setting aside OS updates to cars, the logistics of controlling the electric grid are far superior to the gas system and have already been used to control people's behavior on a mass scale.

most driving takes place at low throttle anyway, it wouldn't be in the wrong RPM range, you just wouldn't have much as much power. a throttle is basically an adjustable restrictor plate.

Gearing makes throttle restrictions difficult. Without enough RPM you'll be lugging the engine when switching gears, or just lugging the engine in normal operation under different conditions like an overtake.

Most turbos are designed for low end fuel economy now days so no real concern there, and for the sports cars thats just extra incentive to pay for the throttle unlock subscription and there's no reason that the software couldn't be designed to still allow the computers to blip the throttle past the usual limit to shift.

Sports car turbos would be undrivable under that system with the inconsistent boost kick you would get.

Okay, but that's not inherently tied to being electric.

You are correct that there's no engineering reason that mechanical features should be tied to being electric, but the part you're missing is that "should" doesn't matter. Drive-by-wire IS tied to EVs and will always be so because EVs are fundamentally a political construction designed as a battering ram against ICE. They're only manufactured due to a combination of regulation and subsidies, and every mover and shaker in the industry looks at them ideologically. They're not particularly shy about it either. Elon has bragged about high EV adoption rates in Norway when he knows full well that EVs have been made almost mandatory there.

So while it's technically possible to design an EV with mechanical features, I doubt it will ever be a strong competitor (if it will even be designed).

again, same with an ICE engine with some basic precautions. Also what's with this bizare fear of ten minute cities? Out of all of our concerns that's among the lowest.

It's one of our lowest concerns in large part because it's logistically infeasible to control mass numbers of people with technology. That's where mass EV adoption would come in.

Setting aside OS updates to cars, the logistics of controlling the electric grid are far superior to the gas system and have already been used to control people's behavior on a mass scale.

most driving takes place at low throttle anyway, it wouldn't be in the wrong RPM range, you just wouldn't have much as much power. a throttle is basically an adjustable restrictor plate.

Gearing makes throttle restrictions difficult. Without enough RPM you'll be lugging the engine when switching gears, or just lugging the engine in normal operation under different conditions.

Most turbos are designed for low end fuel economy now days so no real concern there, and for the sports cars thats just extra incentive to pay for the throttle unlock subscription and there's no reason that the software couldn't be designed to still allow the computers to blip the throttle past the usual limit to shift.

Sports car turbos would be undrivable under that system with the inconsistent boost kick you would get.