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      12-11-2022, 11:16 PM   #13
Nahlem
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B-Mode is a love hate relationship thing, i came from the i3s and the B-Mode is the equivalent of how the i3 was driven with the one pedal drive.

I Like using B-Mode but only in city driving, for example when going on the highway i do not like B-Mode its to aggressive for my taste i like the cruising that you get from using adaptive mode not needing to always feel the car keep breaking that hard. But in city driving its wonderful.

At times when driving in B-Mode it feels like the car is using more energy just to be driven forward because there is this built in resistance that is constantly there in B-Mode the minute you left of the accelerator pedal it drops the speed so fast because of the regenerative braking that it feels like that is consumes more energy to get moving again then it regenerate from using B-Mode.

For example i have started using the B-Mode more like a gear leaver then anything else if i am coming up to a red light i throw in to B-Mode letting the car regenerate as much as possible until i come to a complete stop then throw in back in to adaptive mode so it has less resistance when accelerating of or when coming to almost a full stop and the light switches to green i just throw it in to adaptive mode before coming to a complete stop.

So yeah the B-Mode is a love/hate relationship for me at least.
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