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Regenerative braking is the only good feature but the energy cost of batteries etc offsets the gain.

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The three-speed internally-geared hub will offer a wide-enough gear range for the flat roads and bike paths the bikes will mostly see; coaster braking is intuitive to most people; and rear racks and front baskets offer the requisite cargo-carrying capacity every good city bike needs.

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However, mechanical braking is still available to slow and stop the vehicle.

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All that accelerating and braking is a shocking waste of fuel.

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The absorbtion of wasted energy by braking is called charging the battery by a generator which brakes the car (on demand).

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The anodization penetrates into the rim to about 10 microns, said Sullivan, and is so hard that even under long-term braking riders will never wear down the surface like on a regular rim.

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There’s no front locker, and the downhill engine braking is average

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The eBox is able to go the extra mile because of regenerative braking, which is similar to the system in a Prius.

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There was nothing to do now but ride out the rest of the trip as comfortably as possible until it was time to throw the asteroid into an ever-tightening series of elliptical orbits around earth, known as braking ellipses.

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Because there is a risk to get to what was experienced recently in the German Universities, namely braking the Asylum against the student and popular movement and the free movement of ideas.

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