The only issue I’ve found with the Tesla implementation is that it can cause you to feel that the brakes aren’t working, since you have to depress the pedal past where it’s already at. It feels very odd, but maybe you get used to it.
I think a few automakers' cars do this.
Talk about jealousy.
Mercedes' response to CR's inquiry was alarming. Hope they can pull their head out of their behind soon.
As well as when your turn signals are on.Saw this on a recent thread on the BMW forum:
Apparently, the i4's Live Vehicle widget in the display will show you when the brake lights are on.
Brake Lights Can Fail to Provide Fair Warning on Some Electric Vehicles - Consumer Reports
In Consumer Reports' tests, the brake light on some Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia EVs don’t always illuminate as the vehicle decelerates during regenerative braking.www.consumerreports.org
Nice feature.
Living in the Chicago area, it has been very cold over the past month, temps well below zero. I have noticed on numerous occasions now that the regenerative braking is inconsistent in these frigid temps. After parking my car outside on a night when it was -6 degrees overnight, the regenerative braking did not kick in for at least the first ten minutes of my ride. It was almost as though the braking system needed to warm up in some way?? I always keep my car charged somewhere between 20-80% but rarely let it go below 50% when it’s this cold out. The weather has been admittedly brutal so it’s hard to pin this entirely on Lucid, but the inconsistent regenerative braking has definitely kept me on my toes lately. I have only noticed this problem once before in normal temperatures.
Your battery cannot charge when it is cold. Hence, there is no place for the regenerative braking energy to go so regen is severely limited.
Strange, I’m also in the Chicago area and did not notice this at all during the cold snap
Did you come off ACC or highway assist? Regen doesn't kick in until after a second now.
It’s much better now. Used to “slam on” the regen when coming off ACC/HA.
If you were at a high state of charge, your regen will be limited. At slower speeds regen can seem normal even at high SOC but at higher highway speeds the regen will seem limited. The reason for this that kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity so there is a lot more energy that regenerative braking needs to put back into the battery at higher speeds. At higher SOC, your battery cannot take high current so the car will limit regen. At slower speeds there is less current from regenerative braking so the battery can accept all of the current from regenerative braking.
No. In this case, I had neither engaged.
I agree here. Normally, there's a brief period of light regen and then it gets heavier, which is perfect. This was not that.
I had charged to 80%. I drove a bit so I'm guessing I was 75% or so but didn't look. Unless (and I don't think this is the case), regen won't charge up past the charge limit, I don't see how this could be the explanation. Also, I've had the car for about 10 months now and I feel there was a definite behavior change around 3ish months ago. I don't know if this is a hardware failure or a software change, but definitely feel it behaves differently and that it's inconsistent. If I could make it repro consistently, I'd have contacted customer service by now.
It feels like they updated regen breaking to rely more on an object being in front of you (car detection). I wish you could turn this off any utterly hate it.
I agree. Something with the regen has changed. It is no longer 100% one pedal driving which I was used to and do like the most of ev driving. What has changed ?
