• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Regenerative braking has more influence on battery charge in stop-and-go traffic than it does on thw highway

    • semibreve42@lemmy.dupper.net
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      1 year ago

      As well, EV’s lose very little of their energy to heat or other losses between the battery and wheels unlike ICE vehicles. The result is drag plays a more significant percentage of where the energy is “going”, so the impact of higher speeds on range is greater then it is for ICE vehicles.

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      1 year ago

      You beat me to it, regenerative braking is strong in modern EVs. In several of them you can one-foot drive them, meaning take your foot off the throttle pedal, and the generator(s) will start harvesting hard enough to slow the car to a stop, charging the batteries the whole time. You only need the brake to emergency stop. And if you do choose to brake, you are just harvesting even more energy.