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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The problem with that is that phevs are surprising expensive/heavy/complicated. It's why Chevy discontinued the volt over the bolt. And why chevy had to cut a lot of costs on the volt to get it down to a semi-acceptable price (the volt didn't even have power seats except on the Premier, and only on the drivers side).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, I prefer not to have power seats. It's faster to adjust manual seats in my experience and there's both fewer things to break and less weight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Although having seat settings linked to individual fobs is nice. If you share a vehicle you don't have to mess around with all the settings every time. Moot point though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found I can never get a manual seat just right myself, they're either slightly too far forward, or slightly too far back.

Electric let's you get it just right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that midpoint between 2 steps really make such a difference? 🧐

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, yes it does.