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Originally Posted by Number 3
5 to 10 miles is a big deal. In the EV world, range is like us comparing HP numbers. And how many on here would love to get an extra 5 to 10 HP.....for free.
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5 to 10 miles doesn't matter at all in daily driving where you will be back in the garage charging every night anyway before you even use a third of the battery's capacity (particularly if we are talking about a Tesla). Electricity also costs so little compared to gas.
On a road trip, then maybe, but it's not like regen helps much on highways and in an urban setting, any place that is worth checking out probably has enough charging stations for you to work with.
And your comparison to horsepower isn't the same. Modding is in general a "do it once and done" sort of deal unless we are talking about nitrous here. This is a habitual change. This is more like "accelerate slowly to get better gas mileage." Well guess what, I paid for the entire tachometer, and so I will use the whole tachometer.
That's not to mention the theory that says that you won't notice any gain under 10% of your base power if you use the horsepower analogy. So unless your car only has 50 to 100 HP to start with, then 5 to 10 HP is negligible when it comes to sensations. Same thing for that teeny mileage increase. If you have range anxiety, it's not gonna get magically better with that small amount of increase.