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Our latest government (in New Zealand) campaigned on eliminating all EV subsidies and now voted in has carried those promises out. It's now more expensive to drive an EV if you're expecting running cost savings to pay for the additional capital. Sales dropped about 90% last month as a result...

What a crap article. It looks like it's been written by AI to promote an agenda, no doubt from big oil.

Back in engineering school circa 1975, a place Sandy Munro has never been, my production engineering lecturer once told us that we should "design products with the minimum quality the customer will accept". Obviously that statement left the entire class gasping for air but everyone quickly...

Ok, I'll bite since I like this sort of thing. Could you use the Tesla's WiFi presence to trigger the signal? For example, an ESP32 scanning for nearby SSID signals might see your EV and trigger the lights? I don't know if the car has an SSID beacon but there must be ways to detect it. If...

OP's motor pictured is not just a hub motor but also direct drive. Hyundia's idea fixes that with some speed reduction and helps reduce unsprung weight at the considerable expense and complication of having to lubricate and then seal a complicated gear reduction mechanism from the elements...

Thanks for responding to that for me! I'll add that regen can incur losses of up to 30% (two trips through the motor, inverter and battery) so inadvertent regen such as over-using the "rubber-band" effect or just lifting off the accelerator momentarily to adjust one's foot is not ideal for top...

The bigger question in my mind is why they don’t provide regen-integrated foot braking in addition to fixed levels of off-accelerator pedal regen? Even GM’s EV1 had this feature while I think the MiniE is the only current EV in addition to Tesla that doesn’t.

Yeah, I thought 10kW was a bit absurd. The Kona’s DC-DC draws around 200 watts off the traction battery including the contactors, plus whatever it takes to support the 12V system load. There must be trade offs between aux battery capacity and the frequency of cycling wear on the charging...

After watching John's video and noting the rather small capacity of the 16V aux battery compared to a conventional lead-acid, I'm wondering if (while parked) the DC-DC runs continuously to supply requirements and the aux battery is just there to handle intermittent inrush currents and emergency...

Interestingly the Hyundai Ioniq 5 blended system disables brake-pedal-requested regen if the static regen mode is set to zero (of four), which is coasting without any significant regen. The purpose according to owners I've asked is to allow the disks to be cleaned. The older Hyundai models...

Interestingly even the original GM EV1 had a blended braking system. Hyundai's system is very good as well although I've never driven or even seen a Bolt as they are not sold here. New Hyundai/Kia owners are often unaware of how this works and I think Tesla's influence has lead to a consumer...

You are actually dead right in that coasting is the optimum economical driving mode rather than regen and it seems that Tesla did not make this easy for you. "Regen" in an EV only betters braking in an ICE car in that the losses are merely about 30% instead of 100%. You don't want to be...

It's certainly not just a wire off the brake light switch. Although electric brakes just happen to be under development now by Brembo, automakers currently stick with proven, low-liability-risk hydraulic technology. ABS/ stability control and collision avoidance systems are also considerations...

I see it's been addressed in this thread. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/does-the-brake-pedal-activate-regenerative-braking-before-the-brake-pads-apply-friction.275813/

Thanks everyone for responding and sorry for not getting back earlier. We don't seem to have an agreement on the question of "does pressing the brake pedal add more regen than is already present". From a basic motor control perspective, regen is nothing more than the (upper-left) quadrant...

I own a Kona Electric which has blended braking and have been researching what other EVs have and don't have that feature, in case I decide to move on from the Kona. The Kona was intended to be driven like any other car and transparently uses regen optimally whenever possible, right down to a a...

Locally (NZ) the one model of the eNiro 64kWh available is the same price as the Kona base model, NZ$75k. Kona top model is NZ$81k the only model of any with NAV (all prices out the door, all taxes, and we don't get any incentives.) Advantages of the eNiro are that the interior is nicer, there...

These are based on readings off the Kona's power display which separates out traction power, which I gather you probably already know about. I can only assume it's accurate enough but there is an averaging delay so it needs careful observation. The German driver posted a video (below) but I...

Because my reaction time to hit the brake pedal is about as fast as humanly possible! As you can imagine it's purely an academic point that slowing by level 3 (the highest) fixed regen during the reaction period reduces the required stopping distance. Of course it must, but the contribution...

Completely agree. I have a Kona but I'm perfectly willing to call a spade a spade. It would have been easy enough to include a one pedal mode but they choose not to, for some reason. There are plenty of other bugs in the design, but that's another story. Amusingly, if you hold the left paddle...

I've been pondering the location of free AC charging outside a local big box in the most busy location and that was my conclusion as well, aside from the obvious PR value. I've never seen it used by anyone. The EVSE is a 2 x Type 2 (3-ph, 32 A) fully exploitable by only one model EV here (the...

I find the Kona EV's sound useful to announce my presence but I'm very glad I can turn it off when I want to be stealthy, or turn it off suddenly just to make pedestrians wonder where the spaceship has landed. Mine is constant with speed but tapers off in volume, and seems higher pitched than...

Perhaps this once in a lifetime, paradigm shift in transport technology that we are all witnessing would be a perfect moment to introduce metric units to Americans? Then the discussion can center around kWh/100km, Wh/m, km/KWh, or even Joules per meter.