[elhigh]

A Gen I Insight would be the bee's knees for me. Except my wife and I commute with our son to college, all going to destinations in a radius of a mile and a half after a 20 mile Interstate haul. The Insight would be great, but two seats is too few.

The regen is pretty significant in my experience. It's most useful in our hilly little town where speed limits are 25. Third gear and regen are sufficient to hold me just under that at full recharge, watts going into the battery instead of out the brake rotors as heat. Niiiiice. Decelerating for exit ramps or really any significant direction change, I start further out and usually dump any kinetic energy as regen. The brakes don't get a lot of work on my car!

One peeve I have, and other HCH owners might want to weigh in on this, is how regen comes on fully with the cruise control on. I have a long downhill where the car could easily crack 70 if I just put it in neutral and let it coast. If I put the cruise control on to make coping with tailgaters easier, as the car overspeeds the setpoint the regen comes on all the way, the car drops below the setpoint and regen drops out entirely. Ebb and flow, like the surf. It makes my wife motion sick. It'd be nice if it could detect a rate of change and back off the regen based on that.