Recent content by Søren Jessen

I don’t mean to say that you should use the current neutral functionality. Rather I propose a new functionally should be developed. I’m not so sure with the feathering approach of keeping the bars at zero: let’s assume a situation where the car would be able to run downhill at 60 mph by...

I so very much agree! Do you know if the sensors in the breaks of current Teslas would allow the breaks to become regenerative first, then mechanical? That is, would a software update be able to fix this?

Speke is idea you’ve got. However, although you will burn less fuel while coasting in gear you will also break the car faster and therefore have to accelerate earlier again to get to or keep the speed you want. Coasting in gear looses energy in the form of friction in the engine. In an...