A nice side affect of regenerative braking is that my brake pads look like they've barely been used... and my car has almost 60k miles on it.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 11:16 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > Yah. Teslas are not like that. Going down a mountain generates power. > Slowing down (sort of braking) generates power. In aggressive throttle > mode, you hardly have to touch the brake as you can accelerate and slow > down with regenerative braking. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 11/30/2019 8:58 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > My experience with a Toyota Prius the other week was that climbing a > hill I could deplete the battery but coming down would not charge it. > > > > So yes. You’ll get into a deficit. > > > >> On Nov 30, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On 11/30/19 5:56 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > >>> Depends on distance. My car is always charged. So I always have 200 > miles on the tank. At the end of a full day of driving yes it needs to be > charged. Local police departments are making Teslas work. Just takes a > different mindset. No maintenance and a truck good for a half million > miles with no fuel costs is pretty attractive to me (I charge with solar). > >> How much do you lose climbing elevation? Let's say sea level up to > 7000' 180 miles uphill (San Fransisco to Donner Pass). It's a minimal grade > for the first 100 miles then the last 80 is nothing but uphill. Back when > Tesla was first doing their supercharger network thing they put ones in > Roseville (basically the bottom of the hill) and more in Truckee (just past > the summit) so the assumption was that the climb is hard and you would > charge before going up the hill and charge again after the climb. Even just > to go to Lake Tahoe requires crossing an 8000' summit (Reno is around > 4200'). > >> > >> I'd like to get my wife an electric car, but it seems like normal > mountain driving would eat the battery quickly and then it never gets used > except for flat driving to and from her job or shopping. I'll have 16.3kW > DC of solar panels by the end of February and the way I see it is free > "fuel" for the car. I don't care about saving the planet as much as I am > interested in technology. > >> > >> -- > >> AF mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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