Question about regenerative brake on the Prius

Toyota has kicked around numbers in the neighborhood of 40%, meaning that 40% of the mileage gain is due to regenerative braking. Obviously regenerative braking is more important to city mileage than highway mileage.

Tom

 

It is easy to say in hindsight. If there were more consumer education up front, maybe people would not have complained. Everybody put up with the slow acceleration, the transmission that sounds like a manual transmission with a bad clutch, and the sudden transition from electric power to gas and electric power, the bad visibility etc. I feel that if the braking was discusses, then there would be more of an acceptance that it is part of the tradeoff. I think part of the problem is that everyone has to find out about the "special characteristic" by themselves.

Of course, this is all in hindsight. And it is not if the other car companies figured that out either.

How much work does the front brake do in a normal stop. I think it is about 90% of the stopping is done by the front brake. Am I correct?

 

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