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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wilberforce15" data-source="post: 5386073" data-attributes="member: 5053">You want to increase the car's range by adding resistance to the wheels. Think about that for a second. Harvesting energy from a turning wheel involves applying resistance to that wheel, and making the wheel do work it wouldn't otherwise do. That's why there is regenerative braking and not regenerative driving. If you're braking, you want to apply resistance to the wheels, so harvesting it makes sense. Regenerative driving would be shooting yourself in the foot. You would use battery to make the wheels turn, and then put resistance on the wheels to charge the battery, and all you'd get is destroyed range.</blockquote>