Doctor Drivel wrote:

No replacement disc pads have been sold for a Pirus yet, the brake regen
does it all.

Complete ********.

The effective breaking "power" of something prius sized will be in the
order of several 100 horse power. Even short circuiting the motor is not
going to get you anything like that in back emf breaking.

--
Cheers,

John.

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