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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
Very good. But of course, 'highway' can mean anything from 100 - 130km/h, and so that figure cannot be valid across those different speeds. I wonder what speed they're using for 'highway'?
And this was interesting:
"...as more and more vehicles are hybridized, then the regenerative braking reduces the effect of weight, and hence increases the proportion of the total losses coming from aerodynamics. For a high speed cycle with multiple acceleration and deceleration events this increase can be as much as 44%."
I hadn't thought of that.
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For over twenty years, 55-MPH was the National Speed Limit in the USA. Any mention of 'highway' speed implied 55-mph. That began to end in 1995, as States were given permission to take back control of their own course.