this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
398 points (98.1% liked)

Electric Vehicles

2850 readers
196 users here now

Overview:

Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
sabreW4K3@slrpnk.net
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
Sunshine@piefed.ca
398
China is bringing buttons back to cars, ending trend led by Tesla (electrek.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
79 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The regulation calls out 19 vehicle functions which must have physical controls inside the vehicle, with additional requirements about size and usability of the buttons.

Those functions include:

Turn signals
Hazard lights
Horn
PRND gear shifter
Driver assist function, if present
Windshield wipers
Windshield defroster
Power windows
Emergency call system
Power off switch for EVs
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty stoked that the AC on the slate is manual. I just hope it's not a POS :)

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

name a US-designed and built vehicle not a POS.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's been a long incestuous line of automotive crap. This is something new that has chance (albeit small) to be simple and durable.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Model T was pretty groundbreaking.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

But it only came in black.