Thread: Effects of Headlights on mpg: 6%?
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Old 08-14-2010, 08:25 PM   #14 (permalink)
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...beats walking...
 
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...it takes gasoline to make the HP necessary to spin the alternator to produce the electricity needed to illuminate the lamps.

...and each "process" along that path is always less than 100% efficient.
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