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#587 - Rory Sutherland - 19 Of Human Behaviour's Weirdest Quirks

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Electric Bike

In an electric car, momentum gets recaptured by the battery. Most of the braking will actually be regenerative. There's no particular reason why you shouldn't just decelerate with the accelerator. I go for miles at a time without using the brakes in any shape or form. You just anticipate by throttling off the car slows down. The brake lights come on even if the brakes aren't deployed sometimes to notify cars behind you that you're going to be accelerating at a fastest pace than they might typically expect. But it's actually it's a lovely way to drive partly because you don't have a feeling of resentment when you lose speed. It took a little bit of mastery, but

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