As far as I understand it, any touching of the brake pedal on the Tesla S does NOT increase the regenerative charging - am I right? Or is the first bit of pedal travel incurring extra regen?
I live in an area with mountains around and quite a lot of steep hills - and having to use the conventional brakes to keep the speed down, going downhill, would be a bummer.
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the regeneration being dynamic, in the sense that downhill (and to some extent, tailwind) would increase the regen? It should be quite simple: Whenever you let go of the accelerator, any speed increase should be countered by increase of regen - to the extent of maximum regeneration on a steep downhill.
So those of you who are so lucky to already own a Tesla S - please go to the steepest downhill you know of, and see how slow a speed the car can maintain without touching the brakes ...
This is not only about regenerating and efficiency, but just as much a safety issue - where combustion engined cars have loads of unwanted friction in the engine, it can unload the brakes in mountains - but how about the Tesla? If the car can recharge completely in 4.5 hours, I cannot see why it should not be able to absorb a good mountain downhill drive ...
I live in an area with mountains around and quite a lot of steep hills - and having to use the conventional brakes to keep the speed down, going downhill, would be a bummer.
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the regeneration being dynamic, in the sense that downhill (and to some extent, tailwind) would increase the regen? It should be quite simple: Whenever you let go of the accelerator, any speed increase should be countered by increase of regen - to the extent of maximum regeneration on a steep downhill.
So those of you who are so lucky to already own a Tesla S - please go to the steepest downhill you know of, and see how slow a speed the car can maintain without touching the brakes ...
This is not only about regenerating and efficiency, but just as much a safety issue - where combustion engined cars have loads of unwanted friction in the engine, it can unload the brakes in mountains - but how about the Tesla? If the car can recharge completely in 4.5 hours, I cannot see why it should not be able to absorb a good mountain downhill drive ...