On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:04:30 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

On 06/04/2021 15:43, NY wrote:
I defy most drivers to be able *reliably* to change gear without using
that pedal that "doesn't appear to [do] much"

Cough. You don't change gear on a pure electric car, because it
doesn't have any.

You may be right for most (all?) production electric cars but there
are plenty of custom / conversion electric cars out there where they
have retained the gearbox, even if it's not needed in many cases.

The electric motorcycle I designed, built and raced (40 years ago) had
gears as the 24V DC motor had a fairly narrow rev range and so you
used the gears to match the motor revs with the speed with the course
(and initially pulling away etc).

A short twisty circuit you might keep it in a low gear and when we
went round the MIRA test track, it was mostly kept in the same gear.
;-)

snip

Cheers, T i m