Eli5 why electric cars don’t have smthn like reverse thrust while braking (wheels spin backwards in hard braking situation)

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Eli5 why electric cars don’t have smthn like reverse thrust while braking (wheels spin backwards in hard braking situation)

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Because electric cars propulsion system is still attached to the same thing as the braking system. If you’re braking you are already doing the most effective thing to slow down using the wheels (if you weren’t you’d be doing the most effective thing instead). Technically cars have always had what you describe, you can slam the car into reverse and hit the pedal though I guarantee it won’t slow you down faster than the brakes.

In an aircraft the wheel brakes and the propulsion systems are working on entirely different systems and principles. You can have your anti-lock wheel brakes doing most of the work and also have the engines directing thrust forward to help because the engine isn’t applying thrust through the wheel action.

Edit: In a way I guess you could see regenerative braking as a type of “reverse thrust” in that it reverses the action of the wheel motors into generators, bleeding off the car’s momentum back into battery charge.