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matheweis on Sept 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: World's largest electric vehicle

... and then make them regenerative, capturing the braking energy into supercapacitors.

brian-armstrong on Sept 16, 2017 [–]

Airplane wheels don't really do any substantial braking. Thrust reversers and aerodynamic friction do the work there.

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