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Put more succinctly:

Regenerative braking has < 100% round trip efficiency, so repeatedly speeding up and slowing down hurts gas mileage.

The driver thought it had > 100% efficiency. If that were the case, then the car would be a perpetual motion machine, and they’d save a ton on gas.



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