/"5% is roughly the amount of range extension that regen provides. It can be more if you make very frequent stops (like a delivery vehicle), or live in a very hilly area. Otherwise, you don't use the brakes enough to get more than a few percent of the energy you're using to drive."/
You don't have to do frequent stops to get more. A few years back I did a test run to collect data for someone who was working on a way to display all of it. I drove a couple hundred yards, stopped, drove about 1/2 mile at up to about 45 mph, turned onto a freeway entrance ramp, drove about 3 miles down the freeway at up to about 70 mph, exited, and drove about 3/4 mile further at up to about 35 mph making 3 stops. Regen was 11% of the total energy used. A video and display of the data for the trip is here: http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=280386&postcount=1 -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-What-Click-n-Clack-know-about-regen-tp4672248p4672262.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
