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superxpro12today at 1:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

All motors are generators. It's only a matter of how you are creating the magnetic field with the stator windings.

In order to generate a higher regen, you'd have to somehow get more energy in the motor first... and since its only rated for 200kW, good ol' physics limits you, IF thats all the energy you put into the system.

If you roll it down a hill, or do something exotic like inverting the magnetic fields .... you can exceed the motor rating. But thats usually not recommended because the motor driver itself isnt rated to handle that power.