I think mountain driving is a very obvious advantage of regen. Instead of riding the brakes for 20 miles, you can charge the batteries for 20 miles. The battery in my (non plug in) Prius is full after one or two miles of downhill -- depending on how empty it was at the top, and then it's back to no regen -- you can feel it go away when the battery indicator reaches full. If I had a full EV, I could just stop charging it at 60%, and by the time I got down the hill to town, I'd probably be back at 100%.
Z On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:47 AM, EVDL Administrator <[email protected]>wrote: > On 17 Mar 2014 at 8:16, tomw wrote: > > > I don't have an obvious way to measure this. Has anyone else done so?/" > > > > I've posted data from my car on diyelectricar a number of times over the > > last 4 years. > > And I've posted this link many times here : > > http://www.brusa.biz/index.php?id=43&L=1 > > As with almost everything on a car, how much you get out of regen depends > on > where and how you drive, and of course on how aggressively the regen is > designed. The above link tells the story of Axel Krause's Mini-Evergreen > with 18kwh of NiCd batteries crossing the Alps twice in one day, motoring > up > the mountains and regenerating (or as he says, recuperating) down. It > shows > quite clearly how regen - and coasting - helped him make a run of 220km > (136mi) each way on 23.5kwh (measured at the socket) or 169 wh/mi. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140318/d62c1116/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
