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How electric cars recharge when you brake

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Hitting the brakes in a battery-powered ride does not just scrape pads against a disc. Instead, it flips the drive system in reverse, turning the motor into a generator that violently converts your forward momentum back into electrical juice. It is an aggressive recycling program that slows you down while desperately clawing back enough charge to make it to the next rest stop.

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