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New Sun 4 Feb 18 11:10 
 ePedal? - smokie
I guess it's similar to my car (Ampera), which has a gear mode which gives extra regenerative braking, and means the car slows quite rapidly (without showing brake lights!!!). With a bit of foresight and anticipation I rarely need to use the brakes around town, except usually (but not always) when coming to a full stop.

It does mean the brakes don't get a lot of use, and there is advice on the forum that you should "clean" your discs and pads every so often by putting the car into neutral while doing a few long slow downs from higher speed otherwise the discs are likely to require premature replacement through corrosion rather than wear. (Both forward gear modes have a degree of regenerative braking, which is like engine braking.)

On the plus side, the alloys always look sparkly clean!!
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