Regenerative braking occurs when pressing on the brake pedal gently, up until the hybrid battery is fully charged. Once the battery is full (all bars full up green), the Prius computer switches to using mechanical braking only. On very long down hills, this can cause the mechanical brakes to overheat and lose effectiveness.
The B position makes the hybrid system use engine compression to slow the car, which saves the brakes, just like on a regular car with an automatic transmission.
Only use the B position when the battery charge indicator is full up green. Using it during normal driving simply adds wear-and-tear to the engine and reduces gas mileage.
AnswerThe B position serves just like lower gears in a normal car, and it's really only there to slow the car when you will be descending a long enough hill that you would have to constantly apply the brakes. It doesn't recharge the batteries in the car any better than the normal brakes do, it's just there in the case of situations like long, mountain roads and the such to keep the car from gaining too much speed and keep you from using the brakes too much.For gravitational potential energy, by putting them in a higher position. For other types of energy, by pushing them against some other force.
Chemical energy. Batteries also convert chemical energy to electrical energy.
Batteries use chemical energy to create voltage to drive current flow. They do not use nuclear energy.
what type of energy is stored in batteries
This is about the question I wanted answered; maybe I can point you in the right direction. The answer is more than the sum of 70 batteries as putting them in series increases the voltage and increases the total energy of the system. My question is where does the increase of energy actually come from?
batteries store chemical energy
The example of conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy is the process occurring in the batteries.
electricity is stored in batteries
it is the energy stored in batteries
Yes, if the batteries are rechargeable
The energy in the camera is stored in its batteries. So when you take out a camera's batteries, it won't work.
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