"Dave Plowman (News)" through a haze of senile
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John Stumbles wrote:

Not to the same extent: by driving hard you mean a lot of accelerating
and braking, right? A well-designed electric car can recover a lot of
the kinetic energy put into accelerating through regenerative braking
which an IC cannot.

It would be perfectly possible to recover the kinetic energy lost in
braking with a conventional IC car - after all buses do it. It's a
question of economics. True it's probably cheaper in an electric car by
using the motors as generators, but they will still have conventional
brakes.

Richard Cranium, the Prius has regen brakes and mechanical as backup. The
problem in California is that the discs rust as the mechanic brakes never
operate. I slam mine on occasionally to make sure they operate.

Now make sure the doggy doos is off your loafers before you go out.