So my goal is in a few years time to build myself a Beck Spyder with an electric drive train but i want to go beyond just throwing an electric motor on a vw transaxle. I want to work on programming my own logic for an adaptive cruise control and maybe some sort of self driving semblance in the future so i definitely dont want a manual transmission either complicating the process or adding extra weight. I was thinking a tesla motor might be easiest for that but they do cost a fair bit . I am currently working with Arduinos to automate processes at work so i have that side covered ish.