Regenerative Braking

Introduction to Regenerative Braking 

A regenerative brake is a mechanism that reduces vehicle speed by converting some of its kinetic energy into another useful form of energy - electric current, compressed air.This captured energy is then stored for future use or fed back into a power system for use by other vehicles. For example, electrical regenerative brakes in electric railway vehicles feed the generated electricity back into the supply system.

Regenerative braking utilizes the fact that an electric motor can also act as a
generator.

The vehicle's electric traction motor is operated as a generator during braking and its output is supplied to an electrical load It is the transfer of energy to the load which provides the braking effect .