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Originally Posted by sendler
In L you can get 1 kW of regen and coast effortlessly also. You just don't let off all the way. In D, if you are pressing on the brake hard enough to get 20kW of regen, you are also applying some pressure to the brake pads and wasting energy.
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I doubt it. If that was the case I wouldn't have put 150K stop and go miles on a 05 Prius and had the front brake pads measure almost new. EV's and full hybrids use regen for the vast majority of their braking. The friction brakes are there as a backup and for very slow speed use. The biggest issue I had with my Prius brakes was that the rear drums would rust up.
If the car can generate 20kw of regeneration in low without using the brakes there is no reason it can't do the same thing using the brake pedal.