Question about electric cars?

[b5blue]

What do you call the gas peddle?   

[TUFCAT]

Accelerator pedal 

[timmycharger]

Cant really call it the "loud" pedal either unless you think golf carts are loud 

[Ghoste]

Foot operated variable speed control.

[b5blue]

My bad...pedal not peddle !

[JB400]

Throttle probably wouldn't be used either.  Regulator pedal?  Thrust pedal?  It might remain the gas pedal for the sake of heritage.

[tan top]

What do you call the gas peddle?    

ha ! thought this would be easy !!   if I consulted the FSM  for the correct word ,  but !  its not in there  

 electric car FSM  below !!  ,   see for your self                                






http://www.mieleusa.com/manuals_pdf/Residential/Washers/W4842_us.pdf                                                                                                                    

[Chris 69]

Speed Potentiometer.

[ws23rt]

What was it called on the first electric car?-----FWD/go?

[Baldwinvette77]

Amp pedal? 

[hatersaurusrex]

People will still call it a 'gas pedal' for many years to come, maybe indefinitely.   We use a ton of anachronisms that describe older technology without even thinking about it.

How many of you still say you're 'dialing' or 'hanging up' your phone even though phones haven't had dials or cradle hooks since at least the 80's?    Anybody born since 1990 has probably never actually 'dialed' a phone' 

Do you still 'punch' your time clock at work?   Anybody had any items 'rung up' at the grocery store lately?  Have you 'filmed' anything with your smart phone lately?

I'd say gas pedal is here to stay.

[tan top]

Amp pedal?  

yeah !! AMP pedal !!  has got a ring to it  

,  can just  hear it now , 40 years time when the car has been restored &  two buddies are trying to get it started , "" Hey man give it some amps ""      

[TUFCAT]

" Hey man give it some amps ""    

That lends more credibility to the term .... "crank it dude"!  

[6spd68]

,  can just  hear it now , 40 years time when the car has been restored &  two buddies are trying to get it started , "" Hey man give it some amps ""      

How awesome would that be, 40 years down the road, there's a janky lil forum like this one, only for Tesla Motors.  People trying to sell their 2nd gen model S grilles, and bent up rusty parts for WAY TOO MUCH damn money   

[Ghoste]

Asking if anyone still makes batteries for them.

[twodko]

Let's go old school........rheostat.

[ws23rt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369h-SEBXd8------- :2thumbs:for amps and acceleration.

In my teens we were talking about electric drive as being the future.  So now 40 years in the future from then we are still looking ahead for better batteries.

If something else comes up to push us back in our seat that gives the same fun--(like oh warp drive or the like ) than a more universal term is needed.  The thruster pedal?

[bakerhillpins]

I guess it depends on how you look at it, since most new cars are drive by wire anyhow these days so they are all rheostats now.    

[Ghoste]

Thats true.  Although that rheostat controls a petroleum delivery system so we can still it a gas pedal too.

[b5blue]

Accelerator pedal? After thinking about it it still works, but I like Amps pedal best! (Hit the amps they are catching us!  )