• Improved Performance.
• Improved Fuel Economy -  Dependent on duty cycles, power train design, control strategy, and the efficiency of individual components.
• Reduction in Engine wears.
• Reduction in Brake Wear- Reducing cost of replacement brake linings, cost of labor to install them, and vehicle down time,
• Emissions reduction- engine emissions reduced by engine decoupling, reducing total engine revolutions and total time of engine operation.
• Operating range is comparable with conventional vehicles-  a problem not yet overcome by electric vehicles.

APPLICATION:

• For recovering Kinetic energy of vehicle lost during braking process.
• One theoretical application of regenerative braking would be in a manufacturing plant that moves material from one workstation to another on a conveyer system that stops at each point.
• Regenerative braking is used in some elevator and crane hoist motors.
• Regenerative Braking Systems are also used in electric railway vehicle (London Underground & Virgin Trains).

FUTURE SCOPE:

Regenerative braking systems require further research to develop a better system that captures more energy and stops faster. As the time passes, designers and engineers will perfect regenerative braking systems, so these systems will become more and more common.

All vehicles in motion can benefit from these systems by recapturing energy that would have been lost during braking process. Future technologies in regenerative brakes will include new types of motors which will be more efficient as generators, new drive train designs which will be built with regenerative braking in mind, and electric systems which will be less prone to energy losses.