I just performed it today as a matter of fact but I planned to come to a complete stop before I touched the shifter again. I was going about 30 miles an hour and brought it down to a stop and then put into drive.

 

Just tried again this evening while driving, put into neutral then back into drive no problem!

 

It's super easy and totally fine to do. Nothing to be worried about.
I do it when i'm coming up to a set of traffic lights that are red and I have no one behind me (because I want to brake hard).
Foot off gas.
Hold shifter to N
You'll feel the regen disappear
Coast until you're ready to brake
Brake decently hard all the way to a stop
With foot still on brake and stopped, back to drive, ready to move again
You don't have to completely stop, but I find it's easier to do it that way

 

So let's say you're going 60mph, shift into Neutral, hit the brakes for a little bit, and then shift back into Drive around 40mph. No problem??

 

Dunno, I've not done it at that speed. The car might not like going back into drive at those speeds. You don't need to be at those speeds for it to be effective. Why complicate things. Keep it simple.

 

I'm just curious if anyone definitively knows that it's ok to go from Drive to Neutral and then Neutral to Drive at those speeds.
Also, I would prefer to get the rust off my rotors on the highway when no cars are around me. At those speeds you probably only need to do it once.
I got my NX 3 weeks ago. After about 2 full days of rain parked in front of my house, I noticed rust on the rotors.

 

Why in the world would you want to do that ?

Rust, normal driving will remove. Happens if you let it sit and it rains.

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

I just want to know if going from drive to neutral and back from neutral to drive at high speeds (60mph - 40mph) is bad at all for eCVTs.

 

Yes

 

Still not convinced. My gut tells me it's ok to switch back and forth from neutral and drive at those speeds.
With no explanation at all, not very convincing (although, I wouldn't actually do it without 100% knowledge that it's ok).
Maybe Care Car Nut will see this thread and chime in,

 

I thought my answer was appropriate for the question.


Here are some additional validation for not shifting between neutral and drive:

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/...hile-in-motion
https://sage-advices.com/is-it-bad-t...-while-moving/
There are many other similar articles.


Again, I will ask? 'What are you trying to accomplish by shifting from drive to neutral' ? Freewheeling to get better mileage ? If you have proactive driving assist turned on, then turn it off.

YMMV,
MidCow3

 

The manual has many pages describing seemingly every shifting scenario dos and don'ts. It doesn't seem to mention shifting from N to D while moving as a problem (unless of course you are currently moving backwards). I personally think you should be perfectly fine if said changes are done while coasting. The shifter is just a computer input device "requesting" the vehicle operate in a particular drive mode, there is no physical linkage and especially for the hybrid, there really isn't any significant mechanical changes within the transmission either (no torque converter to engage, no gear to select), just the application and adjustment of power to electric motors (which is constantly going in normal operation already).

 

I believe in most cases, it your car thinks that you are doing something that will cause the damage, or something that you are not suppose to do, it will not let you perform those actions in the first place, at least that is true in some extreme scenarios

 

Cars aren't AGI

For hybrids, I still think that going from neutral to drive at any speed is fine.
Again, I would NOT do this at highway speeds unless I was 100% sure it was OK.
At this point I'm not 100%.

 

I agree. I get the sense from the manual that the most dangerous speeds to perform improper actions is actually dead slow, because I think the car can't measure dead slow speeds accurately enough to ensure the driver doesn't select R, D, or P while still slightly moving or moving a bit in the wrong direction. At higher speeds that are easily measured, no problem, if you try to put the car into R while driving out on the highway, the car will refuse and just go into N instead (in theory, I have not tried it).