Hi Bob, I didn't say this, "Getting on the regen ”hard” means remaining at the highest speed for the longest possible time before slamming to a stop. "
I said to decelerate hard, and then coast a long time. You can do the deceleration not at the last moment. The goal would be to spend more time at lower speeds. (And perhaps to train tailgaters.) The maximizes the drag effect of cubing with speed. In fact just driving slower all the time is the best thing of all. Mike On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope, it is still only SPEED that has the impact on air drag. Yes, how you > accelerate gets you to speed faster, but it is still only speed that causes > air drag. And the below advice is just plain wrong. Getting on the > regen”hard” means remaining at the highest speed for the longest possible > time before slamming to a stop. No, far better to coast as long as > possible to that next stop. Thus reducing the speed sooner. > > > > Bob > > > > *From:* Michael Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:54 PM > *To:* Robert Bruninga; Electric Vehicle Discussion List > *Subject:* Re: [EVDL] Range vs Speed > > > > Yep, It is the speed. However, if you always accelerate hard you will > spend more time cubing your higher speed as drag losses, than if you take > it easy and go easy cubing a lower speed for a longer time. > > > > So, take it easy speeding up, and get on the regen hard to slow down > (reduce that cubed high speed as much as possible). > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141107/a8056c73/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)
