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Glad I could help! I plan to make content with the hybrid Civic when they drop soon!

They do not.

Brakes lights do not activate, the brake lights are wired to activate when the brake pedal is depressed, is there’s a switch behind the pedal. while the car is slowing down, you could think of it kind of like shifting down gears in a manual car, the car is still slowing, but it’s at a constant rate. When you press the brakes, the rate is not constant, I could really lightly brake, and all of the sudden slam on them, so the lights are for the brakes as the rate is not constant, thus unpredictable. This as apposed to the constant, more predictable deceleration found in regen braking, however I do see where you are coming from.

No, just like in down-shifting a manual car, the brakes do not light.

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That’s true.

They do not.

Great question! a large majority of regenerative braking is done with the electric motor, the brakes are used more to refine the regenerative process!

@@CCHJacob so the process utilises both the motor itself and the brakes?

@@gavinmatten4524 the brakes are used along with the electric motor to optimize regeneration, correct!

So is there a benefit to using the regenerative braking?

Absolutely! It will make your brake pads and rotors last much longer and it recharges the drive battery. Under normal driving conditions, regen braking is the primary means of stopping the vehicle. Only when the vehicle is traveling too slow (around 5mph and below) or in a panic stop when you mash the brake pedal hard and fast does the hydraulic brake system take over. Using the levers on the steering wheel applies regen braking but does not turn on the brake lights on the rear of the vehicle.

@@mikebieberle5262 That is so interesting. Great response, thank-you! I wonder if it's somehow degrading the life expectancy of the battery though, saving the brakes to make the battery work harder would probably be a trade off I'd want to avoid. What do you think? Also the video states you need to be in B to take advantage of the regen, I found this is not true and it works in normal drive mode as well.

The motor and battery work together to regulate the power absolutely! for the sake of this explanation of regenerative braking, I decided to mostly focus on that feature and its relationship with powering the battery. There is much more to hybrids than just regenerative braking, and every hybrid vehicle has a different way of supplying power. We may decide to do a more in depth video analysis of exactly how the CRV Hybrids work.