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Hi ajdelange, thank you for challenging me! I did some calculations: A car driving in the city might do 0 to 50 to 0 (km/h) every 5 km. If it fully recuperates the kinetic energy, it recharges 50 Wh per cycle. After 100 000 km of city life, that would be a bit over 1 000 kWh or about 4% extra...

Couple of thoughts : 1. A home with solar roof experiences moments of surplus production alternated with moments of underproduction (consumption higher than solar production) - just like any EV driving in city traffic or hills/mountains : regenerative breaking vs acceleration. So the argument...