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Seite 68 Controls Driving ally, the brake lights will come on without hit‐ Driving in detail: eDRIVE ting the brakes. Hints Energy recovery: CHARGE Awareness of vehicle reduced when The high-voltage battery is recharged in part driven in electric mode through energy recovery. The electric motor When driving in electric mode, note that, due acts as a generator when decelerating and to the lack of engine noise, pedestrians and converts the kinetic energy into electrical en‐ other traffic might pay less attention to the ve‐ ergy. hicle due to missing engine noises. Please Energy can be recovered if the following condi‐ take special care when parking or leaving a tions are met: parking space.◀ ▷ The vehicle is moving. Cautiously remove your foot from the ac‐ ▷ Speed higher than approx. celerator pedal 12 mph/20 km/h. Cautiously remove your foot from the acceler‐ ▷ Selector lever position D or R is set. ator pedal because the braking effect of the ▷ Gas pedal is not actuated or only pressed electric motor can be stronger than with a down 1/3 of the way. combustion engine. Otherwise, abrupt braking and slow-down may confuse other traffic.◀ Energy cannot be recovered in the following situations: Accelerator pedal positions ▷ Selector lever position N is set. ▷ While drive stability control systems, e.g. DTC, are active and control the vehicle, even though this is not indicated by an in‐ dicator light. ▷ The high-voltage battery is fully charged. ▷ When temperature of the high-voltage bat‐ tery is very low or very high. In winter it might be possible that the en‐ ergy recovery is temporarily unavailable af‐ 1 Deceleration ter startup. 2 Coasting Always be ready to apply the brake 3 Acceleration or constant speed: ePOWER Always be ready to apply the brake, be‐ cause without energy recovery there is also no Deceleration braking action through the electric drive unit. The deceleration depends on the position ofThe vehicle could roll further than anticipated. the accelerator pedal. The less the actuation ofThis may constitute a danger for other traffic.◀ the accelerator pedal, the greater the decelera‐ tion. In this way energy is recovered and the Exemplary traffic situations high-voltage battery is charged. If a deceleration operation is foreseeable while Releasing the accelerator pedal causes decel‐ driving, this can be used for energy recovery. eration similar to cautious braking. Addition‐ 68 Online Edition for Part no. 01 40 2 960 865 - II/15

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