In article ,
"R.C. Payne" wrote:

Richard Torrens wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On a proper electrc car, the brake pedal is what starts the regenerative
braking, only when you go past a certain level do the final friction
brakes cut in..
Regen braking can also recover a significant amount of the KE used in
town driving - stop-start cycle.

Makes sense, certainly. Smaller controllers don't work like that, but
could be so designed (anyone interested in working on such?).

Electric trains/trams/buses (of the non-battery variety) have been doing
all of these things for years. It is not difficult, it is not new, it's
just not currently applied to private motor cars.

This is nothing new. Regenerative braking has been used in electric cars
since at least the 1980s.