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Originally Posted by Droid13
The thought occurred to me while I was fiddling with the CC at first. I began to wonder if when in CC going downhill, if the TCH automatically applied more regen braking to prevent the car from exceeding it's set speed. I was going to experiment with this, but thought of it too late and ran out of steep enough hills on the way home. Any thoughts on this?
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I think this is exactly what it does. I have the non-NAV version and on my ECO display I know that the ICE is off (still spinning, but not driving the wheels) and the batteries are being recharged. It seems very good at holding the speed downhill, so I'm also assuming that it uses as much regen as necessary to maintain the speed.
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Originally Posted by Droid13
I also noticed that after a good downhill regen giving the battery a max SoC, the TCH becomes extremely generous with battery assist. Pretty much anything I did except coasting became battery assisted until the SoC dropped back 1 bar. I found I could drive level roads at 55/60mph for up to 1/2 mile or so with an indicated 70-90mpg with power from both ICE and Battery after coming off a good decent (converted, the metric FE gauge extends beyond 60mpg because it works in reverse).
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I've found that anytime my SOC is very high (within 1 bar of max) the car will ride quite a bit with electric assist, pegging the mpg gauge at 60. We don't have any hills here, so I mainly fiind it happens after I've done a lot of coasting.