Questions about the MINI Cooper SE? Tom's taking it to the racetrack.

Automatic transmission ICE always need brakes at a stop, the car will creep forward (if in drive). And my fading memory of how I drove manual transmission it just became an automatic habit of both feet on the pedals (clutch, brake) when waiting at an intersection. I don't think the SE is any worse. Not sure you want the car to automatically lock itself in place, what if you get rear-ended at a stop?

 

I've heard the reasoning that if you're the first at a stoplight, you're rear-ended, and you don't have your foot on the brake, you'll get pushed out into cross traffic. The regen will hold you if you're on an uphill stop, but not if you're on a downhill stop.

 

Most ICE cars and trucks don't do this now days. Many transmissions decouple the drive train at a stop to save another .001 mpg, and the auto engine stop/stop adds another distraction.... they usually will creep on a downslope, however. I don't see the SE doing anything different. Although the game of seeing how close to the stop line you can get with region only (without using the brakes) adds a bit of fun

 

Don't all EVs besides the SE hold themselves in place after coming to a stop? Also, don't all other EVs light the brake lights when they're holding themselves stopped?

Wondering about BMW's evolving regen-braking philosophy I tried to discover how the BMW iX does it. In their iX road test, Car and Driver reported, "With the help of GPS data and sensors, Adaptive mode adjusts the regen to be more aggressive in urban traffic and less so on open roads, where it allows coasting." The iX can recognize a stoplight, but neither the magazine nor InsideEVs' Tom Moloughney reported what happens after the iX brakes to a stop.

How does the Ora Good Cat handle the motionless state?

 

Ever wear out a clutch?

 

No, because I always put the clutch all the way in. Holding at the friction point is where the wear comes in.

 

not the clutch. The throw out bearing gets the wear.

 

The clutches in single-clutch AMTs take way more abuse than any barely-ok driver could manage to put on a pedal-actuated clutch in normal driving.