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Originally Posted by RealityRacer
Well this engine efficiency stuff seems highly unlikely. Chasing unicorns here. Do you really think OEMs aren't doing everything they can to make efficient vehicles? You need to think logically about all this.
First, an ICE is 20% efficient and there is no room for improvement or the OEMs would do it,
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I'm surprised nobody else called you on this. 20% heat efficiency is worse than poor, the OEMs beat that decades ago when they started building higher compression engines for the consumer market. A Corliss steam engine was beating 20% efficiency around 1900.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a3...l%20efficiency.
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/18919/...0-liter-engine
This article also offers the same mistaken "fact" you do, without citing any references to back it up.
https://rentar.com/efficient-engines...on-efficiency/
When you get right down to it, the bleeding-edge-advanced Toyota and Nissan efforts knocking on the door of 50% simply point up how woefully inadequate ICE really is. Factor in the energy investment just to harvest and process the fossil fuels, and it quickly becomes clear that ICE should be abandoned by humanity as quickly as possible.