I thought there was an issue as well, but what I noticed was when the vehicle is fully charged the regen is greatly decreased. As soon as there was enough battery drain to need charging, the regen went back to normal.
I thought there was an issue as well, but what I noticed was when the vehicle is fully charged the regen is greatly decreased. As soon as there was enough battery drain to need charging, the regen went back to normal.Has anyone noticed any changes in the degree of regenerative during the time you had the car?
I had my I-Pace for 3 weeks now. I feel the effectiveness of regenerative braking has decreased over the last. During the first 10 days, I was able to do single pedal driving, even at highway speeds. Over the last week, I have felt that the effectiveness has decreased and I don't feel as comfortable with single pedal driving.
I am not sure it is a subjective thing since I was initially driving slowly as I was trying to get used to driving an EV. Please let me know if anyone had similar experiences.
I tried looking up in EV forums from other brands but I did not have much luck so far.
In any case I am going to go the Jaguar North American HQ in the next few days. I live in Princeton, NJ and the NA HQ is in northern New Jersey. My Jaguar dealer knows less than me and I do not blame them because it is an entirely new kind of technology for them.
I thought there was an issue as well, but what I noticed was when the vehicle is fully charged the regen is greatly decreased. As soon as there was enough battery drain to need charging, the regen went back to normal.
There is no true one-pedal driving in the i-Pace. Not sure why mag reviews think there is. It wasn't on the prototype or production setup. The regen goes to 0 at about 3 mph. The only car I've driven was a Bolt to get the one-pedal experience. Sadly, I never even tested an i3, so I don't know how it compares. The Bolt has a pretty powerful regen (70kW?). I think the reason that the i3 might use brakes to emulate one-pedal is because it's RWD with a small electric motor. It's fairly easily to skid a car with RWD under engine brakes in wet or icy conditions, so it's safer to apply some front braking. The Bolt and i-Pace have front drive motors that are fairly powerful, and went skid is detected, the electro-hyd stability control valving can increase or reduce braking at each wheel, or just use regen when there is no skid detected.Unfortunately, the way Jaguar implemented the regen is that one pedal driving is different depending on the State of Charge of the car. The BMW i3 as an example automatically applies brakes when the battery is fully charged to simulate regen, so that the feel is always the same to the driver. Seems safer too.
That is not my recollection of my i3, it also had less regen if fully charged. In fact i3 had a near fatal flaw: when regen was active AND you turned the front wheel the regen would stop, causing the car to accelerate when you expected slowdown. It is the ONLY BEV I have had that did that, and was in fact dangerous as you would have to then slam on the mechanical breaks during a turn.Unfortunately, the way Jaguar implemented the regen is that one pedal driving is different depending on the State of Charge of the car. The BMW i3 as an example automatically applies brakes when the battery is fully charged to simulate regen, so that the feel is always the same to the driver. Seems safer too.
As time goes on, EVs will probably end up with either 4 motors, or limited slip. It is a major drawback of EV handling on closed courses. Brake application is a terrible way to control wheelspin of the inside tire while cornering. It's laggy and destroys brakes in a hurry.I don't like too much automation. Automatically applying the friction brakes would bug me. (expt emergency stopping)
Same for applying the brakes as part of traction control... far prefer an actual limited slip differential such as Eaton Truetrac.