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Originally Posted by P-hack
...much of my distaste for this is because it is %100 series, downsizing the engine doesn't change that...
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This is true.
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Originally Posted by P-hack
So if, for example, that engine were directly clutched to an appropriate sprocket and chain to a wheel, the same vehicle could cruise at like 160mpg all day vs 88.
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But how does one accomplish such a task? Putting an engine to a drive system in such manner seems to negate anything else being there, thus, one is required to upsize the dino burner in order to accelerate and be useful.
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Originally Posted by P-hack
Clutch in a motor in parallel, do some more maths and research bro, I'm out.
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This is certainly more efficient but exists only in SolidWorks.
Something beefy enough to accel with, and then drop to dino @ 25hp for cruising. We seem to be very good at doing the opposite of that...
Now, slow speed direct-drive electric sucks much juice, but already rolling... See, backwards.
Perhaps a hydraulic drive to front wheel motors? Pop open a bypass valve like a 'clutch.' Engage once rolling? It seems to do it this way, we need to seriously re-engineer how the mechanical side works. I might imagine it, but I doubt I could ever afford it.