"Tim+" wrote in message
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NY wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message
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A Nissan Leaf allows one pedal to act as 'go' and 'stop' doesn't it ?.
This means you can hold the car on a slope without the handbrake.

Not sure if you put you foot under it and attempt to lift it that
the car goes backwards :-)

Having learned to drive on a car with at least two and preferably three
pedals, I would find it very difficult to get used to a single-pedal
car,
where releasing the pedal completely applies the brakes.

Do let us know when you find one. As far as Im aware they dont exist.

So the reference to the Nissan Leaf was incorrect?

No, you read that it could be driven in €œone pedal€� mode and made in
incorrect extrapolation. It still has a brake pedal that you use in the
normal way if and when you want to.

So you can turn off brake-when-lifting-off-accelerator mode if you choose,
while still retaining regenerative braking in addition to friction braking
but controlled by the separate brake pedal? I got the impression that
regenerative braking was often only available when lifting off the power,
and that the separate brake pedal only controlled friction braking. I may
well be wrong ;-)

Not all EVs will come to a complete standstill when you just lift off the
throttle but some have this as a selectable mode. It can be very handy in
stop/start traffic in towns as you dont have to keep switching between
accelerator and brake.

As long as you have got used to the extra retardation caused by lifting off
the accelerator completely, compared with that for a mechanical/automatic
gearbox and an IC engine.

For normal driving, is it necessary to keep your foot on the accelerator all
the time that you don't want more-than-air-resistance retardation?