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		Swizec 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restrict... Most European cars already have engine braking. EV regenerative braking just maintains the behavior that folks only used to automatics forgot about. Automatics I think are still not super common in Europe.

beardyw 10 months ago [–]

In the UK about one third are automatic but make up three quarters of new registrations.

Cthulhu_ 10 months ago | [–]

I don't know if EVs and hybrids are very popular in the UK but they are all automatics.

pjmlp 10 months ago | | [–]

Hybrids are surely not all automatic, unless the one we own suddenly changed.

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