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Driving
Brake energy recuperation
Fig. 134
On the selector lever: connect the
br
ak
e ener
gy recuperation.
Fig. 135
On the instrument panel display: indi-
cation of r
ecuper
ation l
evels.
The brake energy recuperation can generate
a br
aking eff
ect. This br
aking effect depends
on the selected driving programme and the
level of charge of the high-voltage battery.
When braking the vehicle and when the vehi-
cle moves by inertia or travels downhill in the
deceleration phase, electric power is gener-
ated by the electric engine and stored in the
high-voltage battery. The electric engine
then operates as an alternator and produces
a engine brake effect. This process is called
brake energy recuperation.
The status of the recuperation is indicated in
the power display of the instrument panel
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page 57. When recuperation is active, the
needle goes to the green area of the display.
The current recuperation level is displayed on
the instrument panel display
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Fig. 135.
Given the case, in the application installed on
the smartphone you can view a statistic of
the energy recuperated over the last 30 mi-
nutes. Check the electronic instruction man-
ual of the application for this.
The effect of the engine brake is more or less
intense depending on the level of recupera-
tion. If the recuperation is very intense, the
brake light of the vehicle may also be switch-
ed on. As the charge level of the high-voltage
battery increases, the recuperation reduces
and, thus, the effect of the engine brake.
When the high-voltage battery is fully charg-
ed, no energy recuperation takes place and
the effect of the engine brake is not available.
When the vehicle detects that road condi-
tions do not allow safe contact between the
wheels and the road, the energy recupera-
tion is automatically reduced and, therefore,
the effect of the engine brake
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.
Sel
ect a r
ecuper
ation level
There are a total of 4 brake energy recupera-
tion levels. You can switch between recupera-
tion levels 1 to 3 by pressing the selector lever
slightly sideways towards
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Fig. 134
+
and
–
:
●
Push the selector lever slightly to the l
eft
t
o
increase one recuperation level.
●
Push the selector lever slightly to the right
to decrease one recuperation level.
●
Push the selector lever to the right for a few
seconds to disconnect the recuperation.
To increase to recuperation level 4, push the
selector lever slightly to position B.. Pushing it
again gently in the direction of the arrow , it
is changed back to position D and the last re-
cuperation level that was selected is activa-
ted.
Recuperation level
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Fig. 135 and mean-
ing:
0
The vehicle moves by inertia. Recupera-
tion only takes pl
ace when braking.
1
Slight recuperation, recuperation level 1
2
Medium recuperation, recuperation lev-
el 2
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