[bdcravens]

I was watching a YouTube video the other day that called the accelerator the "gas pedal" - which makes sense, except it was a video about an EV.

I wonder if that term will one day become disconnected from the original meaning, like "hang up" or the floppy save icon.

[Daneel_]

Most of the other terms are global ones (hang up, save icon, etc), but gas pedal is pretty specific to the US as far as I know, so it’s much less likely to hang around like that.

Here in Australia it’s the accelerator, or accelerator pedal.

[IndrekR]

Estonian word is “gaasipedaal”, which pretty much means “gas pedal”. Gasoline is “bensiin”, no relation to that. The word for pedal comes from accelerator regulating gas-mixture valve (throttle) in carburettor. “Gas-mixture” here is air mixed with atomised fuel.

[int_19h]

It's also literally "gas pedal" in Russian, although more often people just say "gas". To accelerate is to "give gas".

The fuel itself is also "benzin" though. As I understand it's because benzene was the original anti-knocking additive.

[lukan]

Funny, in german it is "Gaspedal" and "Benzin". (And gas means gas/air in german, but I never made the connection. With cars, "gas" means "speed")

[lukan]

At least in german I saw EV cars described having a "strom pedal" (electricity/power pedal). More correct I guess, but also a bit odd. We will see, whether it will stick.

[stavros]

In Greek we call it "γκάζι", which means "natural gas", so it's already wrong. I'm fine with that persisting in EVs