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I don’t think this is a 1:1 comparison though. Electric cars can utilize regenerative braking, which can significantly slow them down before needing to use friction from brake pads in order to stop.

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You can engine brake with a gas car if its manual transmission too

You can engine brake with a lot of automatic vehicles as well, since they’ll still have semi-automatic modes. I drive a car with a CVT and I’m able to “down-shift” for engine braking by using fake gears at specific ratios.

I feel like the distinction here is that you have to go out of your way to do this with ICE vehicles? Maybe I’m in the minority then, but I never do this with my car (which has CVT).

I tried it a few times, thought it was a gimmick and now I just use gas or brake.

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