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Re:GM plans electric van for business users by jsight on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:41PM (#23418819)
My point is that 300 KW is ~400 HP. I can't imagine that these trucks are always stopping vastly more quickly than they accelerate, so this ought to be able to enough to get the majority of the energy, especially taking into account that the regenerative braking is not 100% efficient to begin with.

It just doesn't seem like the issue of being able to disappate the energy with regenerative brakes would be a real problem with a full EV delivery vehicle. I think the people pointing to it as an issue are thinking of either different battery tech or hybrid delivery vehicles that had much smaller batteries (and thus lower peak regen).

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Re:GM plans electric van for business users by BlackNitrogen on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:48PM (#23420277)
This weird claim that evs don't work out in practice because they can't regen is just the latest example of FUD or extreme misunderstanding of the market. Just like people said it was impossible to make a compelling ev, that you could never go a long way, that you could never charge it fast, this latest claim is just silly. Teslas since 2012 (S and later) have had great recharging ability when slowing down. It's not 100%, nothing can be.
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