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Originally Posted by aerohead
Every vehicles coasting will be affected by:
*Mass
*power absorption coefficient of the tires
*Mechanical efficiency(unloaded)of the entire powertrain
*Frontal area
*Coefficient of aerodynamic drag
And that's not to mention
*tire pressure
*road surface
*straightness of the road
*curvature of the road
*Grade of the road
*State of ambient equilibrium lubricant temperature
*State of ambient equilibrium tire temperature
*weather: (temp,humidity,barometric (station)pressure,wind,wind direction,precipitation)
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We'd need to know everything we could about everything mentioned.
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Wow!
Well, I checked my tires the other day, they were at 40 PSI. I cannot imagine that hers were that high.
I drove a total of three miles on the freeway today. My glides seemed to last about .4 miles, but the ground was not level.