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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I'm curious what the efficiency of upcoming trucks will be. My WAG was 2 miles per kWh. I'm sure we could just take the horsepower requirements of a standard truck at 60 MPH and extrapolate out the kW required to maintain that speed.
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I had a peak of 28.7MPG combined over 212 miles only about 10miles of EV use over the 212miles
that 10 miles includes 8.5 miles of FREE ENERGY! (down hill that was 25mph so we say in EV mode the whole 8.5 miles!)
that is with a v8 6.0L engine the battery only has about 10% of 1.5KWH life left so only 0.15KWh...
At perfect conversion, you get about 36 kwh in a gallon of gasoline
0.797Kwh per mile assuming 100% efficiency of gas conversion...
well be generous and say 30% as the pulley only drives the water pump has VVt etc... etc..
0.2391KWh per mile
or 4.1 miles per KWh
i think it could get 50mpg in a Prius chassis it's 1/2 the weight and 1/2 the coefficient drag
V8-hybrid in prius = 50mpg
I will be swapping out All the bulbs for LEDS pretty soon i'm sure it will help a bit.. I also thought of doing some inexpensive Aero mods as well