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Old 02-04-2017, 06:54 AM   #353 (permalink)
Stubby79
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
10hp sustained for 1 hour is worth around 7.3kwh.
A leaf gets ~4 miles per kwh. So 10 hp will only sustain you if you are driving 30 miles in an hour.

Probably a bit better on the highway than it is in stop and go traffic...unless aero drag is enough to exceed the waste of acceleration and braking, which I doubt even on something with decent regen braking.

Calculating how much farther you would get is a lot like calculating compound interest vs payments...but anyway, you'd not quite double your range if you added a 10hp engine pusher if you were traveling at 60mph.

(Which is what I said before without having to calculate anything!)

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