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Originally Posted by Energy Miser
So there is nothing to be gained by removing the electrical generating load from the ICE in my car? I don't buy that.
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Good. There's a real, quantifiable benefit. By my math, an alternator + combustion engine is 12.5% efficient at turning gasoline into 12VDC, so .125*33kWh/gal = .25 gal saved for each kWh you don't need to generate onboard.
However, if you run the numbers, I think you'll see you need a much larger deep-cycle battery.