Regenerative braking

[Invader Myk]

An electric motor is just a backwards dynamo.

While driving through the mountains of Kerbin with a very low tech rover and had a lot of down time waiting for the batteries to recharge. During this time I got thinking about electric and hybrid vehicles (irl) and started reading a regenerative brakes. Then, because I still had a crazy amount of time to wait while recharging, I thought maybe there's a mod for it. Sadly, after searching through a full recharge cycle I could find nothing. So I'm putting it to the community to give this a go.

[HoloYolo]

Very great idea. I love wheels that do this so I don't need to bring 30,000 RTGs

[SmallFatFetus]

If I had modding skills, I would do this.

[HeckuvaTester]

I see a part that gets toggled with the "brake" action. It would produce a value of electricity equal to (some constant that is decided for balance) * (surface speed). This way, no electricity is generated by sitting there still. Sounds like my first mod!