Tesla had that idea. Not sure why it isn't commonplace.
Or even just electrolyte exchange.
How did they get enough custom with that much competition? My nearest town has a population of 20,000, it has 3 petrol stations, all joined to supermarkets, they usually have about 6 cars filling in each one. Anything else is way more expensive.
Not many people know what they are talking about. Also, what is stress in this context?
Actually, I prefer to cover the boring bits then stop to look at the view.
Anyway, muscles are different to a mechanical engine. With stored energy they can peak at about 1kW for a few seconds but can't replenish at more than about 150W.
When cruising the average consumption is similar to instaneous consumption.
When changing speed or travelling over hilly roads, they are not directly connected. Instantaneous consumption will fluctuate but it doesn't mean that under periods of high consumption the efficiency must be lower.
If going along the flat requires 5kW and the consumption is 40mpg but going uphill at the same speed requires 20kW, then anything above 10mpg means the engine is more efficient. Irrespective of revs deployed. The potential energy then drives the car downhill so the average is restored or improved upon.
...because this would be reducing the load.
You haven't looked at the links.
From experience I can tell you it's most economical to drive at a constant speed with low revs.
Using it harder.
I was talking about what uses the most energy.
Maybe so, but the same principal applies, using them nowhere near their limit is more efficient.
The simplest thing to consider is, does the engine run more efficiently when pushed hard or treated gently? Running an engine at quarter power all the time, or half power half of the time, which is best? I think you'll find quarter power all the time wins.
It's less economical because of the higher speed inside the engine.
I read what you wrote above, which presumably is the same as the links?
Prick.
Then say so rather than using a meaningless term. Look up Young's modulus for the proper definition of mechanical stress.
So was I.
It requires more energy to get to the top of a hill when matching a slower rider.
It's not simpler. You talk of power vs. time. Mpg is energy vs. distance.
I have not repeated anything parrot fashion. The links are the only way to show graphs.
Unless you take your fingers out of your ears the conversation is over.
My target is 400. I get that in summer.
In winter its sometimes as low as 360 - cold starts use a lot of fuel
The American midwest - the canadian great plains, northern ontario - LOTS of places you can be more than half an hour from gas - lots even ove an hour from gas - or 2 or more hours without gas in your route of travel.
And the turbo-hydramatic in the early sixties as well. Packard and studebaker used locking torque converters WAY back in the Ultramatic - and DG 200/250. in 1949
But a fkuid coupling is not necrssarily a torque converter.
A two element fluid coupling is not a torque converter.
The problem with that is ascertaining the condition of the replacement battery. Joe's Budget Battery Swap will be ringing in the packs nearing their EOL, like Gresham's Law for batteries.
In this town, there are some associated with supermarkets but more depend on the adjoining casino and convenience store. Most are within a few cents of each other. With gas at $2.89 a gallon, saving 5 cents a gallon on an 8 gallon fill up is not a major consideration. If I'm at CostCo and need gas I'll fill up, but driving the four blocks out of my way just for gas isn't going to happen.
When I was a kid and gas was 21 cents a gallon, 3 cents cheaper was something.
It's gotten better with the credit card actuated pumps but more than once I've slept in the back of the car until the gas station opened the next morning.
The Chrysler was educational. I'd pulled aluminum TorqueFlites and manual transmissions without a jack but when I got that cast iron lump clear and took the full weight I realized I was going for a personal best bench press. Getting it down and out from under it wasn't graceful. I rented a jack to get it back in.
The problem was an accordion pleated beryllium copper seal where one of the pleats was cracked. Tried to solder it with no success but fluid was cheap. All I can say was it was ingenious.
If A is a subset of B then its a given that not all of B will be in A. Fairly simply set theory.
Besides, torque converter is a misnomer since thats just a side effect. What it really is a fluid clutch.
Perhaps Brits have a different vocabulary...
The cast iron Powerglide was my education!!! Damned neer killed me the first time I pulled one.
No, it is a variable ratio hydraulic transmission with a fairly narrow ratio "band"
The Hudson Terraplane had a "fluid clutch" - peices of coek flooded in "hudsonite" fluid.
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