Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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mashton in reply to @Dammit

I’d think that regenerative braking would lead to an electric car producing far less brake dust than a conventional car

Cross post from the EV thread:

As a conscious "experiment" I monitored how much I used the foot brake vs regenerative "braking" during a 61 mile journey the other day. Mixture of dense urban, countryside and motorway road use:

I used the foot / caliper brakes precisely once during the outing: whilst I was reverse parking on returning to my house.

So, from a brake dust perspective, EVs do seem to be almost infinitely better.

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Constable_Savage in reply to @mashton

When I was driving the Tesla S I very rarely used the brake but the car would panic brake on sunny days when driving into a big shadow. Passing tall HGVs or under bridges. I would warn passengers that it might happen and it nearly always did. It was a 2015 model so I wonder if newer models are better now.

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