Help! School Assignment- Comparison between gas and electric cars in terms of thermodynamics?
December 19, 2009 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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I’m tiresome to equate the two types in stipulations of efficiency fuel consumption when travelling long distances
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The domestic combustion engine ICE is about 30% efficient at a motor but a positively excellent radiator. You force add about 10% to that for diesel engines. By the time you get owing to the handbook teach efficiency drops off to around 15%. So approximately 85% of the cash you place in the fuel tank is atrophied.
Gripping motors are about 90% efficient. Some motors have a supervise over handbook. Some conversions use the transmission of the ex- ICE. An gripping motor is a very poor radiator. Additionally, electrically powered vehicles often have “regenerative” braking. This return a “small” part of the potential to break a vehicle back to the battery.
Gripping vehicles are an ancient equipment that has not had the concentrated development of the ICE. Possibility efficiency gains in the ICE are not therefore probable to be as splendid as that of the gripping vehicle thought.
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