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What I think you could be experiencing is reduced regenerative breaking which can occur under very special circumstances (when the battery is essentially completely full and is of no safety concern in my opinion). Under these circumstances a little more brake pedal travel is required to get the desired braking effect. I experience this fairly often because I live half way up a long steep hill. If the car is completely fully charged and I head down the hill there is noticeably less braking for the very initial portion of brake pedal travel than if I did the same trip with the battery not fully charged because there's nowhere to dump the energy and it seems under such circumstances that the mechanical brakes provide the woah power and thus a little the further brake travel is required for activation. This effect is also noticed in 'L' as you just coast on like you are in 'D' under such circumstances. If I head on a route taking me up the hill with the freshly fully charged battery the braking behaves normally because I have made 'space' in the battery before the first braking event, and even when I head down the hill the greater brake travel is only required in my case for the first traffic light at the bottom of the hill, as the next light occurs after a sufficient period of horizontal power consuming travel. I would expect if a journey starting with a fully charged battery initially involved a lot of long down hill sections it could be experienced even more frequently.