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I find my experience to be exactly the same with the couple EVs I've owned. You very quickly adapt to learning exactly when you need to let off the accelerator, and even going from EV-to-EV where the regen curve is different, it only takes a couple tries to adapt to the new vehicle again.

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The e-Pedal in the Nissan Leaf is wonderful, if you lift your foot off of the accelerator completely the car will apply optimal regen until the car stops.

Its really freeing not to have to look at the regen gauge at all, I just keep my foot over the brake pedal just in case I need to stop quicker than the regen braking.

What if you’re going down a slight decline where you could normally coast and maintain your speed. Do you have to leave your foot on the pedal and waste battery?

It's not wasting battery if you have your pedal in the position where it's coasting, neither regenerating nor accelerating.

Its really intuitive, if you are going a little too fast you just let up the pressure on the pedal. You don't have to think about if it needs to use battery, regen or coast to maintain the speed you want. In that aspect its like using cruise control in other hybrids/ev.

If you want to coast, you have to apply slight pressure to the accelerator. It doesn't use battery. It's a little weird at first, but you get used to it in a couple days, then it's second nature.

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