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HaHa - vive la difference, Gomev. I think we agree on many more things than we disagree - we're both on an EV forum for one thing :-) The great thing about the car market over the last 50 years or more is the huge variety and multitude of companies, models etc (compare with mobile phone...

I'm afraid I can't agree, Gomev. Anticipating the road ahead certainly produces the smoothest and most efficient driving style, but again, you only slow down when you need to, and to the extent you need to. Lower regen just means you don't have as much control over decelleration, so you'll need...

I seem to have caused some misunderstanding in my (rather long) post above. When I say "in reverse" I don't mean the motor runs backwards - I mean the electricity current flow is in reverse, generating current rather than consuming it. Of course the motor still spins in the same direction! As...

Hi RoadUser, welcome :-) - The point of regen is it recovers the kinetic (motion) energy that's been put into the car, and converts it back into electricity, storing it back in the battery. Electric motors are also generators (you can use the alternator from your old ICE car as a motor, just by...

Sounds like a lovely place to take the motorbike! ;-)

Sorry for the ambiguity in my previous post - yes, I mean no efficiency gain in KERS 1 (least regen). EV manufacturers provide configurable regen levels in order to be more acceptable to new drivers coming over from ICE. My brother, for instance, when driving my e-Niro for the first time found...

I too have known people who drive like that - as you say, it's horrible to ride with them! :-) I've no idea what actual difference it makes to consumption, but it feels very inefficient. Maybe an argument could be made for repeatedly running an ICE car in a more efficient higher power output...

EV power-trains are complex computer-controlled servo systems. Changing a major parameter when in motion is bound to cause a noticable hiccup as the servo system re-adjusts. It certainly doesn't follow that lower regen settings are somehow more efficient. They're not.

It's interesting to me that the most efficient EVs on the road (Tesla) don't have a KERS setting, but fix the regen at maximum (one-pedal driving). They've done extensive research on this and of course have the largest data pool of any EV company (all Tesla cars report telemetry, like formula 1...

For us, two factors made us jump at the MG - price and availability. If the battery pack were bigger, the price would be substantially higher (as pointed out by Chris) and they may have more limited manufacturing volume given that the single biggest limit to both price and manufacturing volume...