Bolt EV owners: Does the Regen paddle work in L mode?

Qinsp said:

I did not see an increase in regen using the paddle in L whatsoever. I believe the car might have had a faulty switch or something.

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If the battery pack is near full state of charge... regen is diminished to almost nothing.
If you "burn off" a few miles, you'll have max regen available once again.

To answer the original question, pulling the paddle adds additional regen even when driving in "L" mode.... no question about it- as long as you're not near max state of charge.

^ Well, there you go!

I went out for bagels yesterday morning... I had the Bolt plugged in overnight. I was quite surprised at the first stop sign on my street when I actually had to hit the brakes to stop the Bolt. On the trip home (3.1mi round trip to the bagel place) I could use full regen again. Guess I burned off enough electrons that there was room for some regen-recharge.

I just "topped off" at work a few min ago, so tonight out of the gate I know not to expect full regen till I put a few miles on the battery.

Live and learn right?

VoltenRock said:

... I could see someone expecting to get regen, not getting it, and rear-ending someone. Next thing you know GM is getting sued...

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They got you covered... the auto breaking won't let you hit the car in front of you

I'm not going to test it like I tested the lane keeper (it worked perfectly by nudging the Bolt back into the lane), but I assume the auto breaking will work perfectly too.

LOL... yeah, I had plenty of old cars (Fiat's, Triumphs, MGB...) that break automatically.
It automatically broke as soon as you completed the previou$$ repair

Today, on my first commute to and from work with the Bolt... I did not hit the brake pedal for the full 50 mi round trip. I stopped the charge at work when the app indicated 99% (222mi range) complete. I had full regen after that.