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Ray, I agree, hold the car on the brake pedal and the rear lights stay on. But if having stopped by using regen, until the last moment when you use the brake, you then press firmly on the pedal it sets the parking brake. It's the same as using the P switch, and AFAIK the brake lights go off.

Brake lights also come on during regen though not immediately which is just as well to stop them fli...

Thinking dangerously --- ,

Missing US pilot.

Are Iranian nomads US/West friendly? Could they be bought?

Regime is offering $60000 for capture.

US could at least double that, and save a huge amount of money, over having a US pilot being milked by the mullahs.

Trev,

You and I could debate "best route" for the rest of our lives! If I knew how to do it I would add a smiley face:)

For quite a few years, before I was made redundant in 1999, I was responsible for moving load and route planning systems forward across the whole business with many depots across the country. "Best route" was often based on "that's the way we have always done i...

Guy,

The only problem with using "hold" on the footbrake is that puts on the stop lights. At night, in particular, I think its better to use the hand brake as that avoids dazzling the driver behind. Many cars have auto release which make it easy, even on a slope. Of course it does depend on how long you expect to be stationary.

I agree with the brake disc issue. Fortunately, whe...

Thats ironic that in snowy cold conditions you have little regen but battery range is reduced. I never realised they had a snow mode.

Trev

Correct Ray. Though the default mode on most is moderate regen which significantly slows the car. When at a standstill in mine a firm, or double tap on the brake pedal holds the car (like putting on the handbrake) and stops the creep. One problem with continually using a regen mode is the discs build up a film of rust. It's a good idea to drive in Snow mode briefly every week or so, even in summer...

A lot of things are said about thoughts Bill.

"You know what thought did" being one of them.

There are many. Here're a few more.


Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Wolfe. (Who also said, "You cannot find peace by avoiding life.". She could have s...

Anam, yep I had forgotten Lotus Notes which we started with.

Trev

Jeremy,

"There is no need for an EV driver to keep their foot on the brake"

That's not always true for EV's. I think that only applies to those being used with a one pedal mode, all the others I have tried, including my own MG4, creep along at c3/4 MPH without throttle input. As far as regen is concerned many, every one I have driven, has a mode function ranging from high to alm...

Ray, interesting you mention route planning as we used one and it did cut jobs. What used to take all day for a team to do it could do in about 3 hours. Its big draw back was that it looked at all the drops on a route and went the shortest route to each one so you could be zig zagging across an area when human input would know a better way. A good example was Kent where the best way was to go A2/M...