Kona in the Creek
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My wife and I are recent owners of a Kona Ultimate, and love the car. I have a question though about regeneration. Driving along at zero regen at a steady speed. click to level one, then level 2, then level three....and each advance in regen slows the car down, leaving the impression it takes more power to cruise along on the highway with regen on.
This cannot be the case though, because the engineers would not default Eco mode to level 2 regen if doing so ate up range. Right?
So, what I think is happening, is each level of regen varies the amount of power available to the motor, so advancing through the levels decreases total power available to the motor. Moving at the same speed will use a progressively higher level of the available power, although the actual power consumption to maintain speed does not change.
Is this right, or is there a better explanation?
This cannot be the case though, because the engineers would not default Eco mode to level 2 regen if doing so ate up range. Right?
So, what I think is happening, is each level of regen varies the amount of power available to the motor, so advancing through the levels decreases total power available to the motor. Moving at the same speed will use a progressively higher level of the available power, although the actual power consumption to maintain speed does not change.
Is this right, or is there a better explanation?