Originally Posted by
EMIT
As reply to Lord Lucan, post 4.
Recovering energy???
Yet another conceptual mistake, such as you find everywhere in the green madness of todays world!
A car driver that approaches a red traffic light at 50 mph and then brakes to stop the car is wasting the kinetic energy that is in the car - he should have started coasting early enough to come to a stop right at the traffic light without any braking. Because this method is impractical in normal traffic, hey, an electric car can use the motor as a generator to convert the kinetic energy back to stored electric power in the battery....!
I think you've got that wrong. The electric car braking is not merely a function of mechanical braking - it is a regenerative braking system that does recover energy in the braking phase.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-...ve-braking.htm