On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 03:09 PM, Victor Tikhonov wrote: > Matt Muelver wrote: >> >> I've been reading that these cars have poor braking performance, but >> I'm sure that something can be done about that, especially since the >> braking system needs to be modified for EV conversion anyway. > > That is, unless you have regen. > > There are days where I drive to work and run errands and don't even > touch brake pedal at all - regen provides dead stop easily. > > Only if emergency arise, I use both regen and mechanical brakes > and combined I'm sure they are more effective than even modified > brakes alone. > > Victor
Wow. That's some pretty strong regen! I guess my impressions of regen come from driving my Insight. Now that I think about it, a motor ten times larger than my Insight's would probably give 10x the regen! (and 10x the power too!) Well, I've already got 312V of Optimas, maybe I should spring for the AC drive? Hey Victor, how quick is your ACRX? Later, Matt -- Composed on "Ti", my Titanium PowerBook G4. Transported by my as yet unnamed '01 Monte Carlo Blue Honda Insight #1898 Life is good, thank the Lord!
