How is that working and what does it say, exactly, see below:
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Do you really not understand those gauges? They seem pretty intuitive to me...
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Right now your battery is full (gauge on the left) and you're using much less than 25% of its capacity.
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Great, that's dummy enough for me, thanks!
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This is actually a power usage meter. It's sitting at zero. For fuel efficiency you should try to keep it in the green or below 25%. When slowing or regenerative braking you will notice the needle going further to the left to approximate the level of energy being recovered. The reason there is no tach is many times the engine is just acting as a generator and the revolutions are not correlating to your speed. The tach would not give you any information that would be under your control.
The gauges would suggest you are in a School Zone of 15mph. But since you are "on that list" you know you are not supposed to be anywhere within 2500 feet of any school, to maintain your restraining order as mandated by the court.
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OoooooPPppppSssssyyyyy!!!
This is just on all the time by default. Maybe you mean using the paddles to make it stronger. I find it easiest to just leave it on Auto and let it work all the time as needed
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It isn't on all the time in my car. If you hold the - paddle when the car is in gear, the symbols appear with an "M". You can then adjust the levels up or down, and it will stay in that mode/level until you put it into Park, and then it resets. It turn it up to level 6 every time I drive the car.
Is it on by default in Sport mode?
It IS on all the time in your car. In Drive it is just on "auto". On Sport I believe it goes to that Manual with the paddles. In Auto it seems to run around level 1-3 or something, not all the way to level 6 I don't think
You know it is working all the time because even in regular D, when you brake you see the left side of the power meter going down to Regen braking. Actually I think the paddles still work in regular Drive but it doesn't peg it/hold it to the level. So you can crank it down to 6 but then it will release and just go back to doing what it thinks is best
Honestly it is such a smooth and fluid system that I can never feel any transition so I just let it do its thing
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I like it at level 6, and I set it that way. I don't even know what levels 1-5 feel like. It may regenerate when you use the brake, I don't know. What I like is there is no need to touch the brake. You are converting the forward motion of the car back to electrical energy via the generator motor, and that slows the car, not the brakes. The brakes should last forever like that.
Mmmkay but just to be clear, on levels 1-5 when you "touch the brake" it is just using Regen braking, too. Only when it gets really slow will it actually activate the mechanical brakes (or perhaps if you had an emergency stopping situation where a lot of brake force needed). The point is, "level 6" vs the other levels doesn't mean you are using Regen while others aren't, and the act of depressing the brake pedal doesn't mean you are "using the disc brakes" and not capturing the benefit of regen braking to the electrical motor
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I think you are wrong about that. The brakes have nothing to do with slowing the car. It's the resistance of the generator motor while it generates electricity that does the slowing of the car, not the brakes.
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Read the 1st page of this thread,
www.driveaccord.net
Ignorant question about regenerative braking
This will be regarded as an ignorant question to some here. So, sorry, but I'm totally new to Hybrid (started thinking about a Hybrid car only a week and a half ago, ordered my Hybrid Sport, and now eagerly waiting for delivery): When I looked up the subject I found this: "It captures the...
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Two-Motor Hybrid System (Sport... - 2023 Honda Accord | Honda Info Center
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From the above link,
"The battery can be recharged in two different ways.
- One is when regenerative braking uses the generator to convert the vehicle’s kinetic energy into electricity.
- Another is when the engine is running and spins the generator to recharge the battery."
I am wrong about what now?
Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but it feels to me like you are misunderstanding how the Regen works
The Regen is working WHEN YOU PRESS THE BRAKE PEDAL on these cars.
If you think that only by amping up to "Level 6" and then just "letting off the gas" that is the only way to achieve Regen braking, well you are wrong
When you press the brake pedal, the car FIRST uses Regen braking as much as it can, and only at the very end would it default to the mechanical brakes. Meaning, the brake pedal signals the car to do Regen braking. The brake pedal is not just some dumb mechanical link to the physical brake lines here
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No, that is not the way I understand it. The regeneration is independent of the braking system. While you may be right that there is some regeneration when you use the brakes, you can use the regeneration mode without the brakes. Why do you get so touchy when someone disagrees with you.
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