Hi Bob, I find that I start developing two distinct driving patterns, now that I have been in EVs for several years After having driven gas cars for several decades. In an ICE I will essentially always carefully depress the throttle except in an emergency, as I am always conscious about the wear and tear That I will place on an engine when I floor it. (Not everyone is aware, I live near one of the entrances to my neighborhood and I hear always The same people Floor it and race their engines, even though local speed limit is 15 MPH and they can only go a short distance before braking again....
The other driving pattern is when I am in an EV, I might still be easy on the accelerator when I anticipate I will not be quicker when I go fast, For example a traffic light in the distance that I know the cycle of, but I am much more tempted to accelerate near full throttle to my target speed As the difference in wear and efficiency is very small on modern parts (Lead-acid was always sagging badly, but the Lithium pack only drops a few Percent when I floor it) so I am more tempted to drive it in "Sports" mode, even with my S10 truck. Cor. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga via EV Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 12:52 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: [EVDL] Flooring it... In giving people test drives in my new (2013) volt, I just realizewd something. I tell people to FLOOR it, even in the neighborhood just to feel the acceleration. But they are very hesitant even though I only want them to feel the acceperation for a second or two, not to achieve high speed. But we are so used to the NOISE that a gas car makes when we floor it, that we are self conscious about the noise and the adverse attention that “flooring it” would bring in an inappropriate situation. But with the EV, there is NO NOISE. So even a bystander would not notice particularly… Anyway, just an observation about human nature (and how we have unconscious conceptions from a century of gas guzzlers that we don’t realize are so much a part of us.) Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170502/16666ef1/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
