4 E-MINI-ME Electric Conversion of 2009 Mini Cooper Clubman to Plug-in Electric Vehicle

[irmulioks]

if you there no reverse engine braking you risk overheat your brakes and lose them at all, so they instal (downhill engine braking) grand turismo brakes,not best solution but is better these then no brakes at all

[yusufer5000]

I love your videos. I wish when i was project manager/head fabricator of my university's EV that had your budget. i had like i had around 10k before getting the donor (i had to paint that 83 VW rabbit with shaker can).

[JRP3]

I understand why you might use the brakes more with a non regen series DC motor but I'd think you'd use them less with regen. Even as you have it setup to only come on when you hit the brake pedal I'd think the regen would kick in as soon as the pedal is pushed and before serious pressure is applied to the brakes. I would also think you might be able to configure the system so there is a portion of the throttle pedal that allows coasting and then regen when fully off the pedal.

[marionrickard]

Well, you may indeed be right. The point is that the kinetic energy in forward motion is most efficiently used to continue forward motion.

BMW's Mini-E is getting a lot of criticism on just this point. When you take your foot off the accelerator, the non-adjustable regen actually throws you forward in your seatbelt.

We will have regen tied only to the brake switch, and we will have a control to adjust the level of regen in the car.

[marionrickard]

In any event, with an additional 750 lbs of batteries in the car, and even assuming considerable regenerative braking, we think you need more brakes than come on the car.

So we have installed the best we could find. Brembo Gran Turisimos.

Jack