Did none of the baker electric's have regen? I don't know enough about them, but just figured that some of them may have had a shunt motor design which would do regen quite handily.
Zeke On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:40 AM, brucedp5 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > AMC Amitron r:150mi ts:50mph> Electron, Pacer ice used the body style > > > http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089510_electric-car-trivia-when-was-regenerative-braking-first-used > Electric-Car Trivia: When Was Regenerative Braking First Used? > By John Voelcker Jan 10, 2014 > > [image > > http://images.thecarconnection.com/med/amc-amitron-concept-car-1967_100451955_m.jpg > AMC Amitron concept car, 1967 > > http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/1976_amc_pacer_100024722_l.jpg > 1976 AMC Pacer > ] > > Regenerative braking is a standard and expected part of any electrified car > now, from Honda's mild hybrids up through battery-electric vehicles like > the > Tesla Model S. > > It lets the car recapture energy from momentum, which would otherwise be > wasted as brake heat, by running the electric motor in reverse to recharge > the battery. > > But what was the first car to employ regenerative braking? > > According to a short piece in Car Design News, it was an electric concept > car called the Amitron, unveiled in 1967 by--of all things--American > Motors. > > Shorter than a Smart ForTwo minicar, it was sufficiently wide for three > passengers to sit side by side. > > The 1,100-pound car was powered by a combination of nickel-cadmium and > lithium-nickel-fluoride batteries, the former for quick power delivery on > acceleration, the latter for maximum energy storage for sustained cruising. > > Together, the combined battery gave the Amitron a sustained range of 150 > miles at a speed of 50 mph. > > But it was also the very first car to use regenerative braking to recapture > energy and recharge its battery on deceleration. > > While the company had planned to offer the Amitron as a commuter vehicle > within five years, it never did so, despite a second concept car in 1977 > called the Electron that looked very similar. > > The short-but-wide layout reappeared in the 1975 Pacer compact, however. > > American Motors went on to be acquired by France's Renault in 1983, which > then sold it to Chrysler in 1987, largely on the value of its Jeep brand. > > Chrysler itself was bought by Daimler in 1998, then sold to a private > equity > firm in 2007, before collapsing in bankruptcy two years later during the > economic recession. > > With restructuring and financial aid from the U.S. government, Chrysler was > effectively given to Italy's Fiat, which is now in the process of > consolidating the two automakers. > > CEO Sergio Marchionne famously carped that the Fiat 500e electric > compliance > car that Chrysler is forced to sell in California by that state's > zero-emission vehicle rule costs the company $10,000 more than it makes for > each one. > > But still, perhaps, back there in some dusty company archive or > little-noticed garage, the Amitron waits to reclaim its place in history? > [© Green Car Reports] > > > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2014/0111/What-happened-to-the-first-regenerative-braking-car > What happened to the first regenerative braking car? January 11, 2014 > ... Amitron a sustained range of 150 miles at a speed of 50 mph ... it was > also the very first car to use regenerative braking to ... recharge its > battery on deceleration. While the company had planned to offer the Amitron > as a commuter vehicle within five years, it never did so, despite a second > concept car in 1977 called the Electron that looked very similar. 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