Car Regen (leafs, turtles, w/e) Compitition

Not a five minute span, but not too shabby (IMHO). Sorry about the image quality (cell phone).

 

Sorry to have to break the bad news, but the more of those you get, the more energy that is being lost in the exchange from gas to regenerated electricity and the lower the mpg. The goal is to have as few exchanges as necessary by using the "glide" instead of the "coast". Check out these articles, and I'll search for more:

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/five-stages.txt

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/warpstealth.html

 

What Neicy says. It's certainly good to recapture energy that in a conventional car would be lost otherwise. But in my striving for maximum fuel economy I've never tried to see how many I can get. I pride myself on how few I get.

 

sometimes I get a few on purpose by coasting off the highway to a stopping point. I have to recharge the battery getting ready for the 39 mph 0 rpm driving!

But on the whole you dont want a lot of them as normal course.