In that case I’m gonna have to learn how to drive all over again
Nah, you'll love it. I think its wonderful, and is perfectly balanced (I've read people of other cars, e.g. Bolt and iPace saying same thing). Bolt has a lever on the steering wheel to increase the effect, drivers love that although I haven't tried it and I can't figure out why - I am not understanding why I wouldn't use maximum all the time and feather with throttle pedal.
Don't use Low, you won't put anything back in the battery and will use friction brakes instead and ... won't get the Range.
With One-Pedal Regen you lift off and monetarily nothing happens - that's to allow you to lift off and press the brake, or push the throttle again / adjust / whatever.
After that [
literally just a] Moment its the same as a manual ICE getting engine braking from the engine when you lift off, or more so if you change down and lift off etc. but Regen is stronger than engine-braking, equivalent to the sort of reasonable braking you would do slowing down for bend / junction, but not aggressively so - for that you still need the friction brakes.That's what makes EV brakes last 100,000+ miles
Except Regen is better than Engine braking; you can feather the effect by pushing the accelerator to the point where you are not accelerating but regen is just the right amount. Lift off, regen builds to maximum, you are slowing down faster than necessary, just press throttle slightly to reduce regen (same as braking too hard to start with and lifting off the brake a bit).
Sorry, no more toe-heel either, if you are into that, and no more blipping the throttle on change-down coming into a bend either ... if you were into that too
After a drive in a mate's Ferrari that did the whole double-de-clutch and throttle-blip thing, when you pressed the DOWN paddle, I used to do all that manually to amuse myself. SILENT is much better, no need to distort the music using graphics equaliser to boost the parts that the engine is drowning out. I digress ...
One thing that is different is that you can come into a bend, or approach a turn, faster than "comfortable", and with foot off accelerator regen is still slowing you so as you make the turn you have actually slowed enough. That, for me, is different to how I would have driven in ICE - I would have lost all necessary momentum before starting the manoeuvre. But of course you don't have to do that, you can just use the friction brakes if you are coming into a turn a bit fast
I presume AP will try to use regen rather than brake to maximise efficiency?
My AP1 is not that smart. Yes, all initial deceleration uses Regen, and in many cases car slowing a bit in front does not max out regen, but my AP maxes out regen (and I presume also uses friction brakes) quite often. I have a generous follow distance set and AP tries too hard to maintain that, so a car pulls into lane in front of me, if I was driving I would "use up" some of that space to slow down smoothly, and then allow the space to grow back again; AP1 does use some of that space, it doesn't just jump on the brakes to instantly keep same follow-distance
, but it slows more/faster than I would. I think the algorithm could better favour max regen and no friction brakes, unless necessary. Maybe AP2 does that ... either way, AP1 is "good enough" in that regard.
how do the brake lights work with regen?
Its based on the amount of deceleration, so if sufficient brake lights will come on (I believe that is the requirement for all cars, so if you had sufficient engine braking available ... or a parachute
... then brake lights would have to come on for compliance). I expect Audi / iPace etc are the same - modest regen slowing won't bring brake lights on.