Shifter secret compartment?

[Calvin H-C]

Interesting. Not usually practical, but shifting to neutral works pretty dang well. Anyone noticed how well these hunks of mass coast when you shift to neutral?

I recently found with my 5.5 year old Focus Electric that it's probably a good idea to occasionally shift to neutral when coming to a stop so you can give your brakes a bit of a cleaning. In neutral, there's no regen and all braking is friction.

The FFE gives a "braking score" that tells you how much of the stop regenerated energy as a percentage of how much it could. Even stomping on the brakes hard still gives a score of nearly 40%.

After this long, (132,000 km /82,000 miles) I only just had the front brakes done - they still had over 4 mm of pads, but the rotors were looking pretty pockmarked. The rear brakes have pretty clean rotors and 9 mm of pads. The car reports that over its 132,000 km, regen provided over 18,000 km.

Our ICE Focus before that had its second 4-wheel brake job done by 128,000 km.

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