As a car enthusiast myself, I appreciate your adherence to the OG throttle cable dogma, but: how would you propose EV accelerators work, in this case?
Unless you’re talking about introducing a physical clutch to the car that’s controlled by a traditional pedal+master/slave cylinder+clutch and flywheel, that’s not a thing you can do. And (as much as I would ADORE an MT EV), the mechanical efficiency hit is simply not worth it. You’re probably talking about sacrificing double-digits of power and range efficiency (not to mention weight penalties) if you were to design an EV like that.
There’s gotta be a different option. It’s an engineering question, I’m not an engineer so idk but there has to be some option that can introduce a “switch” or clutch without too much detriment.
You could have the accelerator pedal physically move a variac (variable auto transformer) to directly control the voltage going to the motor.
Alternatively, there is likely a way to directly set the PWM using an analog sensor, instead of interpreting the throttle sensor output through a more complex software stack that could introduce potential errors.
As a car enthusiast myself, I appreciate your adherence to the OG throttle cable dogma, but: how would you propose EV accelerators work, in this case?
Unless you’re talking about introducing a physical clutch to the car that’s controlled by a traditional pedal+master/slave cylinder+clutch and flywheel, that’s not a thing you can do. And (as much as I would ADORE an MT EV), the mechanical efficiency hit is simply not worth it. You’re probably talking about sacrificing double-digits of power and range efficiency (not to mention weight penalties) if you were to design an EV like that.
There’s gotta be a different option. It’s an engineering question, I’m not an engineer so idk but there has to be some option that can introduce a “switch” or clutch without too much detriment.
You could have the accelerator pedal physically move a variac (variable auto transformer) to directly control the voltage going to the motor.
Alternatively, there is likely a way to directly set the PWM using an analog sensor, instead of interpreting the throttle sensor output through a more complex software stack that could introduce potential errors.
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