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Originally Posted by Ryland
ah, so the engine speed is going to control the vehicle speed... huh, you should get that nice smooth 0-60 time of several minutes then!
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Ryland, why would the engine speed dictate vehicle speed? If the engine is not mechanically coupled to the drive wheels, how would there be a correlation between engine speed and vehicle speed? Diesel-electric locomotives and diesel-electric buses don't operate that way, why would a car be any different? And don't tell me that diesel electric buses take eons to accelerate; I've rode several and they were perfectly adequate in terms of acceleration. As far as I'm aware, such buses don't operate on freeways, but the kind of car I want to build wouldn't be well suited to freeway travel anyway. Just something to commute through the city to work and back.