Electric cars are easier to drive than manual transmission petrol cars, but for me it wasn't, I found it very difficult to drive.
What happened was I sat in the car and turned on the engine, the engine makes no sound at all. I was confused because I felt like the engine was off. When I finally convinced myself the engine was on I reached out for the gear lever, but electric cars don't have a clutch and they don't have gear levers. But I kept reaching out to grab it anyway because it is the automatic side of me that does that. I was wrestling with my automatic nature to stop my old behaviours.
In this car the break peddle took up the space of my break peddle and the clutch, it was a very wide peddle so if you were to press the clutch peddle in this car you would find yourself pressing the break. I pressed the break several times and tried to grab a gear lever that wasn't there. I guess if I get used to driving an electric car then it would be much easier to control. I just got out of the driving seat after five minutes.
