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John S
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On 1/18/2022 5:14 PM, bitrex wrote:
Do you have cruise control?
On 1/18/2022 4:21 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 1:46:40 PM UTC-5, bitrex wrote:
My Volt has a convenient inline-four battery charger & space heater for
when it gets down into the single digits.
For whatever reason maybe due to the high compression ratio and
relatively high RPM it runs at when used this way when the engine is
cold it blows enormous clouds of condensation when it starts up at those
temperatures, almost like laying a smokescreen. Sort of amusing coming
from an \"electric vehicle\"
What was the weirdness you described for controlling the regeneration
braking you talked about once? I recall a \"paddle\" you flipped
repeatedly or something.
Ya it has a paddle under the cruise control button-area, on the back of
the steering wheel for \"regeneration on demand\", if your foot\'s off the
accelerator you press that and it\'ll engage regeneration only and not
the wheel brakes. The Bolt has it also. It\'s not pressure-sensitive it
just seems to ramp in intensity over a about a second or two, to full-on
if you hold it down.
Or you can just leave the car in \"L\" and do the one-pedal driving-thing
but I\'ve never liked that style, it feels weird to have to push the
\"gas\" to go down a hill, and my foot gets tired after a while. I\'m on
the highway on cruise control about 75% of the time, anyway.
But it\'s not a complete substitute for the foot-brake and can behave in
ways you wouldn\'t expect from the foot-brake sometimes, like if you
momentarily lose traction from a pothole or patch of ice it seems to
instantly disengage and you lunge forwards which can be pretty jarring
when it happens.
Do you have cruise control?