About Regenerative Braking

[DeathMachine]

I have seen on the web complete electric bike. it's has a battery and you pedal a generator. It didn't have great reviews. I would think the energy loss would be prohibitive.

[Jasdidit]

That wouldn't work because the BBSHD uses an internal freewheel. It freewheels when you pedal, so it can't turn the motor to generate electricity .

[Dale H]

Interesting idea rcbike, I'm sure there are some electrical gurus out there who could accomplish this task. Unfortunately I'm currently not the man for that particular task lol.

[rcbike]

My Exkate electric skateboard has regenerative braking and it would be nice if the BBSHD had some kind of regenerative braking. But what I think would be better is to have the option to put the pedal assist in "zero" mode and when you pedal you can recharge the battery like a dynamo.

[Dale H]

thank you spinngmagnets, good to know if I ever decide to build a trike.

[spinningmagnets]

Those two wires are for adding a switch so you can have a reverse, and I have seen some cargo trikes use that feature with a direct drive hubmotor...

[Dale H]

I was recently tinkering around with my controller and found two white wires,one with a male end the other with female. Naturally had to plug the male into the female, and when I powered up the bike tried to take off in REVERSE!?! so, is this indicative of a regen capable controller? ( Hoping the answer is yes). And if so, how do I utilize this feature? Still running the 1000 watt Amazon bought rear hub ( AOSOM was the name of the kit). After hastily unplugging the wires and taking off, seemed to also have more responsive throttle and a little more power as well on two subsequent rides since.Can anyone shed some light on this mystery? Thanks in advance.