Flopper
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- Mar 23, 2010
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EVs have regenerative breaking systems. The difference between conventual breaking systems and regenerative systems is their ability recovery energy lost as heat in the braking process.Don't EV's have brake and power steering fluid? I'm not aquatinted with their design. I can't see lithium battery recycling being easy and/or cheap. The only difference between an ICE and EV fire in say an accident, is the ferocity of a litium battery fire.
I would love to use my bicycle, but I would struggle to take my tools. The current job, I'm using my petrol cement mixer, wheelbarrow, and tool bucket. I couldn't fit them in my bicycle basket. Plus, cycling 40 miles to that job and then back with those tools is not possible.
Ev's have power steering but it's different than conventional power steering. Electronic sensors pick up the amount of steering force being applied and adds in a proportional amount of additional force to the steering input. Electrical charge is used to rotate the motor and through energy transfer, a lateral force is produced that aids the movement along the steering rack.
Also the heating and a/c system is different. There are lots of other little difference in EVs. Most of those differences reduce the expended energy or recovery energy while delivering the same level of performance as ICEs.