Why only a few electric cars become classics
01/24/2023
At some point in the future, we will have to deal with the question of whether the electric cars of the new millennium are also classics and can mature into youngtimers/oldtimers. Nobody would deny classic status to a Detroit Electric from the 1920s or a GM EV1 from the 1990s. Why not? Well, they are rare and special. Their shape is different from many other cars and they both offer a very unique driving experience. The same is probably true of a Tesla Roadster, the earliest examples of which are now 15 years old and of which there are only a manageable number.
But what about the increasingly wide selection of often interchangeable electric vehicles of the modern era? How collectible and worthy of preservation are they?
Of course, this is for the collectors and classic car buyers of the future to decide, but I find it hard to imagine how I would line up four different Tesla S variants next to each other or even different electric cars from different manufacturers. In the end, the driving experience is always similar, it lacks the analog, the tonal, sometimes even the haptic. In the end, what is missing is the mechanical uniqueness that makes some old cars so special and a classic. An Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV with a four-cylinder twin-camshaft engine is much more different from a Ford Capri or a Rover 3500 SDI than a Tesla Model S is from a BMW i4. Or is it?
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