• silence7@slrpnk.netM
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    11 months ago

    In the past, when I’ve looked at such things, they were about as expensive as buying an EV, and tended to offer far shorter range and no regenerative braking.

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      11 months ago

      Missing regen braking doesn’t even make sense, that can’t be THAT hard to implement in a controller

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        11 months ago

        Depends on what motor they use. Some get weird. The people I know who coverted a car didn’t try for regen because their surplus motor was wound in a way that makes regen really tricky, and you don’t want to get this wrong.

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        It’s an extremely tricky thing to get right, blending regen and normal braking. It’s going to be unique to each car, and getting it wrong makes the brakes feel absolutely awful.