Which EV Has The Best User Experience?
Some have screen real estate for days, while others keep things simple. But which one is better?

You know it, we know it: cars are increasingly less about feel and more about how many inches of screen real estate can be fitted inside. But fitting more displays inside a car doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easier to use.
It might be impressive, but it can get old (and tiring) fast. So here we are, asking you fine people what’s electric car on sale today has the best user experience. Do you have to go through five menus on the screen just to disable an annoying feature, only to have it re-activated when you start the car again? That sucks, and we want to know about it.
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Earlier today, Porsche’s head of style, Michael Mauer, said that the German luxury sports car maker will steer clear of tacky, tablet-like displays glued on top of the dashboard. That’s not to say future Porsche vehicles won’t have any screens–that would be a bit too analog for what is considered a luxury brand. Instead, the company will stick to smaller displays and, probably more importantly, physical buttons.

The 2024 Porsche Macan can have up to three screens on the dash

By contrast, the refreshed Tesla Model 3 has a single screen and almost all the physical buttons can be found on the steering wheel

The 2025 Nissan Leaf, on the other hand, has an old-school interior with a lot of buttons and a rather outdated center screen. But does all of this make it bad?
On the other side of the spectrum, there are companies like Tesla, which have gone all minimalistic, transferring as many physical buttons as possible into a single large screen to keep costs down. At the same time, however, Tesla has one of the best digital user interfaces in the industry, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the best user experience overall–we kind of miss those column stalks and some kind of gauge cluster would be useful.
Mercedes-Benz has the admittedly visually impressive Hyperscreen, which–in simple English–means that the whole dash is made of displays. Rivian went for a more conventional approach, with a central infotainment screen and a driver’s instrument cluster. And for future models, it's adding these multi-purpose steering wheel dials that click, rotate, swivel and actuate in other ways for different functions.

2025 Rivian R1 dashboard
But it doesn’t matter how many diagonal inches there are or how fancy the ambient lighting is. We want to know from you which is the best to use on a day-to-day basis. So head over to the comments section and have at it.
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