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Comment by ronancremin

> But you don't gain much, there's not a lot of weight to slow down with an ebike so regen gives you very little back.

But by the same token there's not a lot of weight to accelerate either, right? So while a moving bike has much less potential energy to recoup than a car, it needs much less to get back going again also.

So IMHO regen on a bike should be as useful as it is on a car, no?

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