Regeneration: Coasting vs riding the brakes, which is better?

B mode on a greater than 1:10 never done me wrong.

 

What changeover? When riding the brakes, the only changeover may be from regen to friction brakes, when the battery fills.

It does not, except at really low speeds (under 25 or 30 mph?) if the ICE was not spinning at the moment B was engaged. At normal speeds, it engages both regen and engine braking together. Regen will be phased out as the battery gets nearly filled, with the difference made up by stronger engine braking.

If one wants just regen first, cutting to engine braking after that, then select Cruise Control instead of B. Road and traffic conditions permitting.

Yes.

Why do it before reaching full charge? To reduce battery heating during regen, and to reduce the amount of time the engine spends screaming in full banshee mode.

But I use B mode only when I know the battery will fill up anyway. For shorter hills that won't fill the battery, a pure regen mode will recover more energy than can B mode.