So given an EV doesnt run on fuel, what will the Americans do? imagine someone driving an EV and being asked to step on the 'gas'... utter confusion!!!!

Was running cars on LPG ever a thing in the US, where they can fill their cars with gas instead of gas ?
How about camping stoves or lighters that they could fill with gas instead of gas?

 

Americans call it the gas (gasoline) pedal even when it's a diesel car. I don't think it'll change.

 

Play and pause pedals of course

 

Play and pause pedals of course
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PLAY more!!!! = go faster!!!

 

Maybe they should just call it the accelerator, given that's what it is!

 

Can't be seen to be calling it the same as us

 

It's the Speederupper.

 

The Go Faster Pedal in this house

 

Some people used to call it the 'loud pedal', but that doesn't really apply anymore either.

 

They still call the boot of a car a trunk, even though it hasn't been a trunk for decades, so I doubt it will change.

 

Sometimes if I need to charge up the battery I still tend to say ‘fill the tank’. I have a feeling some things will never change!

 

Totally get it this, I arrive at my destination with half a tank of electricity too. 🤣

 

The Governor? Frankly it is really a throttle even if it is just regulating the flow of electrons.

 

Gosh, it hasn't been called the throttle in years! I can't imagine many cars accelerator pedals are directly linked to the throttle anymore 🤔

 

I still call it the gas pedal. My driving instructor always called it that, because as he explained when I asked "what are you American or something?", basically "gas" was quicker for him to say in a hurry than "accelerator". 1 syllable vs. 5.

It's no big deal really. In our house we still "tape Emmerdale" despite not having had a VCR for over 20 years. At work, remote access is often still referred to as "dialling in". Language works as long as everyone knows what you mean

 

I suppose that it's a potentiometer, or really a pair for redundancy. But the pedal that moves that electrical unit is what eventually causes the car to accelerate. So it's an accelerator. If there is a need for brevity then call it the 'Go' pedal as that would work universally.

 

I suppose that it's a potentiometer

Mainly hall effect - less to go wrong.

 

Dat is da Rheostat.

 

I suppose go pedal would make sense for accelerator pedal.

 

Juice box?

 

Flux capacitor?

 

The go pedal surely 😁

 

I've always called it the 'go' pedal for the last 8 years (ICE or EV). Seems more logical to pick a word that can describe the same pedal function in all car types,, however they are powered.

Using this word, I have also let it slip into my own common vocabulary on common day to day management/project things in the office, and say 'let's hit the go pedal on this' rather than something more drab.

(The post I lost my forum 'go pedal' virgin cherry; Homing in on optimum speeds for efficiency.)

@Tigga , what would you like to call it?

 

@Tigga , what would you like to call it?

I dont care... it was just a bit of light hearted fun!
It really wasnt a serious question.

 

THE TAP (Faucet for US drivers!)

 

Power control pedal

 

The only USAian?

"Go petal"

While the usual suspect is claiming to have invented "go petal", I'm fairly sure I can find much older documented uses. Like in 2001.

 

Are you referring to me, petal?

I'm not saying I invented it, typically reading something completely different in to what I say.

Why do YOU people do that?

I just mentioned when I first started using it.

 

Steve

 

beat me to it 👍
(I was going to say Dave)

 

https://www.cars.com/research/toyota-celica-2000/

In the customer reviews.

 

"While the usual suspect is claiming to have invented "go petal", "
where is this, quote it please. Me, or someone else?

Please quote it anyway, I've not seen the post you are referring to.

 

On an electric train, for a long time, to make it move you use a power controller. Unlikely it’ll catch on within the car industry though!

 

Older trains used to use a power controller alongside a rotary pneumatic accelerator, which used switching contacts to change the wiring of The motors from a single wiring, to series wiring and then to a parallel wiring layout. Effectively giving the trains a 3 speed gearbox.

Modern trains tend to use a traction brake controller with a potentiometer linked to a pulse width modulator, which then links to the motor control software in each carriage to control the demand to the motors through a drive control unit that powers igbts to send an ac current to the train motors. An EV will work in roughly the same way as a modern train, possibly without using a pwn signal as the voltage drop would be minimal compared to a 100m+ train.

 

Regulator - as on steam locos.