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Old 11-25-2015, 07:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Huh? Unless it's downshifting to make more power at higher revs, in order to overcome the extra drag of the higher speed?
It is eCVT so it is not really downshifting. According to calculator above the load should have gone up by 25%, and if you consider torque to be constant RPM (load) had gone up by ~50%. So the possible explanation that either ICE is less efficient at higher RPMs or Cd is higher than 0.28.
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