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Engine braking uses the tyres to slow down. Every motion a car does uses the tyres, no matter how it's done mechanically.

And as other comments mentioned, there's regenerative braking on EVs which, in tyres' mechanical terms, behave very similarly to engine braking.

>>piva00+(OP)
Absolutely not the same.

>>thefz+YG1
It's definitely very much the same from the tyres perspective, regenerative braking happens on the axle which slows the tyre rotation and the tyres friction grips pavement to slow down the mass. Engine braking is the exact same: slowing the axle through the engine, the effects on the tyres is the exact same.

Let me know what's different in your mind and we can have a conversation, you're just wrong.