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  • Yasa is not a current OEM. They are a research group partnered with Mercedes, not supplying Mercedes with current market equipment. So no, this is not a solution to regen braking not being able to brake the last 10% to a stop. That’s not what BMW claimed, either. They said “almost never” activate mechanical brakes. Everyone is still using mechanical brakes for the last, final stopping force. That is how generators work. If they’re not spinning they’re not generating. Slowing to a stop means the braking force from regen rides the curve down to near zero. Yada has nothing to do with the thread anyway


  • You have no idea what you’re talking about. The brembo system in the OP simply replaces the hydraulic system with an electric one. It’s not a regen brake. It’s a brake pedal sensor that commands motors to actuate pistons in normal caliper/rotor/pad arrangement.

    Meanwhile, nowhere in the Yasa site does it say it can hold a motor still strictly through “magnets” because that’s not how motor/generators work. You can’t get resistance to motion without motion being input into the system. No rotation, no generated electricity, no electricity to shove into a battery/heat exchanger. Not to mention that site is primarily marketing hand waving. Research papers to back it are great, but they’re not what that site is about. They’re partnered with Mercedes, not actively producing these as current equipment.




  • I’m on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition. I’ve been relying on the carrier shuttling to keep pace. I wanted to try flying myself form waypoint 12 to 13. Something like 8,000ly in a week. I’m still heading to my second POI along the way, 4kly from wp 12, 4kly to poi 2, and then it’s another 4kly to wp 13. I’ve been going 7 days out of 10 available before they go to wp 14. They’re all undiscovered systems so it’s hard to convince myself to just honk and scan and leave without at least mapping bio signs… For science. And just like that, it became a family road trip “vacation”

    I’m no noob, either. 1300 hours and several of prior 5-10kly exploration trips. 50ly jump range and the neeeeed to scan





  • A ski would be a nightmare. Ski bikes for downhill slopes are one thing, but self-propelling a bike with a ski would majorly suck. The only reason a bike balances is because of tiny steering inputs to the front wheel. If you aren’t aware of that, it’s because of the geometry of the front fork has been worked out a century ago, so it comes naturally. The greatest proof is the reverse-steering bike experiments. Every time the novice reverse rider starts to fall, they steer the wrong way harder and harder. But then it clicks eventually, their brain reverses, and it works again. The gyroscopic effect resists falling, but it doesn’t stay upright on its own forever.

    Back to the point. I’ve skied, I’ve snowboarded. You balance by rocking and steering yourself. While ski bikes do exist for the slopes, all 3 of these take relatively wide paths to stay balanced Ina mild weave. Bikes do it in a much narrower path because they have grip in the tires. Replace that with a constant slide and it gets dicey fast. You lose the ability to balance any time the front washes out. And to see more of that concept, search “lowside crash motorcycle”. The front locks/slides, all balance is lost.

    Stick to cleared pathways and at least hard pack snow. Powder is awful to bike through. I’ve done it. No mortal bike tire floats how it’d need to