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Ryland and Ben's advice is sound. I can speak about Mazdas. To my surprise I found mine to be a very high quality car for what it is.
My advice is to stay away from the automatic. You WILL regret it later when you are using your max battery capacity/range and the looming thought is "if I would have gone with a manual I could go that much further".
Don't get me wrong, I think automatics could be better in an EV, but only if you have a working knowledge in manipulating TCM software to alter TC lockup and shift points. But who has this kind of knowledge and means? Not me, that's for sure.
Going by the cars I have owned, only a Honda automatic is very "TC lockup happy", keeping the TC locked most of the time in gears 3 & 4. A Chrysler automatic is very slushy (AKA very inefficient) unless cruising. I believe theSGC used a 0-5K pot in place of the TPS to manipulate shift points. But there is obviously a reason he went with a manual trans for Civic EV 2.0.
Buy a car that you like. I doubt you really like Aveos.
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