Grit dog wrote:
Reisender wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
But wouldn't that regenerative running create a pretty large drag on the tow vehicle? I mean it's part of the braking system isn't it?
It would be like driving with your brakes on for half an hour,
It would be convenient though. Arrive with a charged battery etc. We’ll have to wait to see what Rivian comes up with.
ROFLMAO!
And this, folks, is the world some problem actually live in....sweet dreams!
I’m not even going to look it up,but regenerative charging provides only a small fraction of typical charging. It can’t do more than that until those Unicorn Farts actually become real!
I don't know anything about EVs. But logic tells me that in normal driving the regen, even if it put power back in faster than hard acceleration pulled it out, would be a small part of the power demanded for a given trip. Bell, what percentage of the time are you on the whoa pedal? And as you slow the weight the rate of charge decrease.
Now I'm going to trump up some numbers. If instead of slowing a 4,000 lb you are slowing a 40,000 lb combination would you get a faster recharge? And if you think about it very little of the stored power, if any, will be needed to move the EV in a day's travel, why couldn't you finish the day with full charged?
