rev counter

She was surprised by how many of them were the friendly, familiar faces of dials she knew: rev counter, airspeed indicator, altimeter—and when she took hold of the flight controls and felt the ailerons and elevator responding reliably to her command, for one moment she thought she was going to cry properly.

In the gauge bin, the rev counter is a real needle-wielding thing, flanked by configurable 7-inch LCD screens.

"������ do you call it? The rev counter?" she adds, looking puzzled.

The speedometer-style watch face counts the hours on the outside and the minutes on what looks like a rev counter.

Below the screen the floor is entirely flat, while in front of the driver the traditional gauges and dials are replaced by digital instruments displaying battery charge, power usage, range and speed – no rev counter needed.