This isn't about whether or not I understand anything. I fully understand electric cars; you aren't the first in this thread to lecture me on the torque.
By referencing only torque as if that's the only thing anyone is going on about pretty much nullifies that first sentence...
But as I said before, I don't care. Put an electric engine into a new body, like a Tesla, and I won't rant about it. Taking away the V8 that led the Shelby Daytona to racing success is simply wrong.
...as does repeating once again that they "took away" the engine. They didn't. This is an entirely new chassis (one Shelby America itself builds and is clearly happy enough to sell to the company) with a new drivetrain. No original Daytonas are being pulled apart to make them. Nobody is stopping anyone else from making Daytona Coupes with V8s. It's an independent project with independent goals.
And frankly, if you think the Daytona legend is so weak that the presence of an electric version somehow erodes at that history or makes it less of a car, then you're demonstrating as much misunderstanding of automotive history as you are electric cars.
Lack of noise isn't the only issue I take with electric cars. Right now all they are are commuter vehicles; I can't take one on a road trip to the beach if I wanted to. Electrics are also more expensive than normal fuel-powered cars; I can't get a cheap electric for $1,000 if I wanted to. As many have stated here, the Renovo simply costs too much.
Mainstream electric vehicles have only been around in any number for the last five or six years. Moaning that you can't find a cheap used one yet is a bit like saying it sucks that you can't find the carcass of an F22 Raptor from a boneyard yet like you can a Vought Crusader, or that you can't find any 55" plasma TVs for $20 in your local pawn shop.
How many brand-new $25k gasoline cars are you buying right now, incidentally? And who are you to say it costs "too much" - in theory, $45 million is "too much" for the collection of metal and rubber that is a Ferrari 250GTO, but someone just paid that at Pebble Beach the other day. Something is worth what the market will pay for it. If they sell zero Renovos then it's too much. If they sell any, then it's clearly fine for that customer.
And yes, range is fairly short at the moment, but I don't see why that's an issue, certainly not for early owners. Very few people do 100+ miles in a day anyway (I suspect even you don't, aside from that hypothetical road trip to the beach that you also probably don't do) as proven by the 100k+ people worldwide who've already bought a Nissan Leaf or the half-billion electric-only miles people have collectively managed in Chevy Volts so far, despite those only doing 40-odd miles before the range-extender kicks in.
Do you know what's funny? A decade ago people had a massive list of reasons that electric cars couldn't work. Every so often, someone launches an electric car that ticks one thing or the other off a list. They're slow? Tesla Roadster. They're impractical? Nissan Leaf. They don't look good? Take your pick - Rimac Concept_One, the Renovo, the BMW i8, the Tesla Roadster (again), the Model S, the Audi R8 e-tron. They look too "weird"? VW's e-Golf is perfectly normal. Don't go far enough on a charge? Model S. Nowhere to charge them? Ignoring the fact that most owners charge at home (which are typically full of weird little outlets that electricity comes from) charging stations are popping up everywhere all the time. Too expensive? Several electric cars now cost little more than their gasoline counterparts in Europe and aren't far off in the States.
Each time one of those is struck off the list, people find new and even more tenuous things to criticise them for. Lack of noise, for example. Or people who bleat on and on about how great it is to have so much torque in large engines will suddenly say that "torque isn't everything".
Basically, what I'm getting to is this:
In short: People will always moan and bitch about stuff they don't understand.
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