Professor Membrane wrote: Not now son, I'm making ... TOAST!
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It's around 15% based on what I've seen, but that is only because it's pushing around thousands of pounds of SUV. For instance the ICE in a Chevy Corvette may not run as efficiently as the same thing in a Suburban, because the vette doesn't require as much energy as the burb, even though it gets better mileage. Less load on the engine usually translates to lower engine efficiency even if it does mean better mileage.Kingcoal wrote:In addition, that figure is based on highway use, around town I wouldn't be surprised if an ICE was below 10%
Define 'way of life'...Pixie wrote:Why, if we could switch our car fleet over to stuff like this we could double or even triple the lifespan of our way of life!
Wait, maybe that's not a good thing.
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patience wrote:For a look at why we have this consumer attitude, read on old book by Vance Packard, "The Satus Seekers", explaining the massive ad campaign that exploited the low self esteem of blue collar people by telling them they could BUY staus, via a new car with bigger body, tailfins, engine, etc., ad nauseum.
Let's put the blame where it belongs, an unholy alliance of corporate greed, ad men, oil men, and politicians that started it all, and supports it to this day.
Pixie wrote:. Any car that can get to 65 in the length of an on-ramp is as fast as it needs to be.
dooberheim wrote:Pixie wrote:. Any car that can get to 65 in the length of an on-ramp is as fast as it needs to be.
The Suzuki Swift of 1990 meets those guidelines. 50 mpg on the highway, on gasoline. Dammit, why can't we go back to this?
DK
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Tyler, I promise nobody is supplying that KIA factory with free raw materials and free labor for the year! Or any other factory for that matter! Even slaves add expenses, they have to receive minimum food, water, shelter etc etc....
As for the raw materials those have gone through the roof thanx to $90.00 oil and the building boom in China.
There are 80 million light trucks on the road today with suboptimal aerodynamic forms. Previous research has found that several miles per gallon can be saved by specifically tailoring truck bodies for reduced aerodynamic drag. Even greater savings can be obtained if the shape of the trucks is numerically optimized.
[...]
The prototype air dam and optimally shaped canopy generated a 21.23% savings in terms of fuel economy.
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yesplease wrote:Optimizing light truck aerodynamics.There are 80 million light trucks on the road today with suboptimal aerodynamic forms. Previous research has found that several miles per gallon can be saved by specifically tailoring truck bodies for reduced aerodynamic drag. Even greater savings can be obtained if the shape of the trucks is numerically optimized.
[...]
The prototype air dam and optimally shaped canopy generated a 21.23% savings in terms of fuel economy.
I have a feeling the end result is something like this. I suppose we could make it all fancy like with color matching factory bolt-ons but we don't need to.
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