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Originally Posted by Allch Chcar
Water and Hydrogen injection into the intake manifold has been shown to improve FE which is essentially all that the electrolyzers accomplish.
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The simultaneous combustion of an easily combustable gas (mixture) in an ICE can indeed lower FE.
The problem is mainly in
- producing enough H2/O2 to really make a difference
- the production of the H2/O2 itself which is very energy intensive
- the production of electricity in cars, which is rather inefficient
And that's where the losses are in this setup.
Many car manufacturers are trying to get their alternators to run as little as possible, and decouple them as much as possible from the ICE when no electrical power generation is required.
Many an ecomodder has deleted his alternator to reduce engine load and improve FE.