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MetroMPG · 10-22-2008, 01:09 AM

Oval - thanks for posting that. Hadn't seen it before.

Now if I'd been designing a "coast down" button, it would be just that: neutral coasting. (More efficient to truly coast from speed down to zero than it is to drive up to the point where you can regen down to zero.)

It makes me wonder if the EV1 did not have light regen when releasing the accelerator, like Toyota's hybrids do, for example, or the Solectria Force EV.

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