Regeneration
Any decently engineered electric vehicle already will have regenerative braking. That is a fairly old and well understood concept. Any electric motor can be used as a generator. When an electic veihicle coasts down a hill, or is doing the opposite to acceleration, the energy is dumped back into the batteries. The exception might be a fuel-cell based power plant. I am not familair with any fuel cell powered machines, but I would assume that some type of battery or capacitor would be needed for large current dump requirements, and those devices can be regeneratively recharged.
The less you expect, the more you get.
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