[inkyoto]

At this point, it is a historical artefact that will cease to exist soon enough.

Electric vehicles do not have gearboxes as there are no converters, so there is nothing to shift up or down. A few performance EV's that have been announced (and maybe even have released) with a gear stick, do so for nostalgic reasons and the gear shift + the accompanying experience is simulated entirely in the software.

[zelos]

The Porsche Taycan has two forward gears, but it's apparently the only EV that does: https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmiss...

[lesny_ludek]

New Mercedes CLA has that too

[pjmlp]

At the rate EV are being sold in Europe, that soon enough is a couple of decades away.

I certainly don't plan to buy anything but hybrids, until EV prices and ranges are at comparable levels.

Our current hybrid has a six gear box.