>>>>>>>I think the opposite is true. You use the brakes less because the 'dynamo' itself acts as a brake. Same as riding a bycyle down hill with a dynamo - the dynamo slows you down.
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>>>>>>Sort of like engine breaking when you select a lower gear?
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>>>>>Sort of, but the analogy doesn't get you too far, because no matter what you do, internal combustion engine won't produce gasoline. Electric motor can act as a generator, which is the point here.
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>>>>I was referring only to the braking effect.
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>>>That side of effect - yes, that's pretty much it. The rest of it differs as as* and eye (libterally translated).
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>>Sorry that line makes no sense to me.
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>Both are "braking by engine" effects, but that's the limit of the analogy. Beyond that, it's completely different - internal combustion engine keeps burning fuel, while the electric engine acts as a generator and pumps some energy back.
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>As for the liberal/literal translation "razlikuju se kao dupe i oko" literally means "they differ like ass and eye", or liberally "they are as different from each other as the ass is different from the eye". Chiaro?

Ah, a colourful analogy! Yes, I'm aware that one burns fuel still while the other saves - luike I said, I was referring only to the braking effect.

As for @ss and eye. I don't know so much: they can both wink and both hate getting athletic linament rubbed into them!