Terry meant that one doesn't often use brakes on interstate highways, so regenerative braking has no reason to improve mileage.
Michel 2009/12/8 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > Terry Blanton wrote: > >> > Actually, this one will probably have the ~600 mile range of the regular >> > Prius, or possibly more, because the extra batteries improve mileage in >> > hybrid mode. >> >> How is this so when there is no regenerative braking? (on the interstate >> system) > > Surely there is regenerative braking. There always is with a Prius. Or is > there a Federal law against it on the interstate system? > > - Jed > >
