No shifting, but there exists a transmission in an EV.

Edit: I suppose I am calling even the one or few reduction gears a transmission. Not sure if that technically means it is a transmission.

Lifetime means 100k to BMTroubleU. That’s all they expect out of their vehicles. It seems insane to do this with machinery. All machinery needs occasionally to be serviced.

Opera was bought by a Chinese company a couple of years ago. So that tracks there too.