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bandit86 · 03-27-2025, 05:57 PM

We could maybe try this with an electric car, using a watt meter. Accelerate from standstill to 35 miles an hour and drive 100 ft and measure amount of watts used. Although now that I think about it we don't have the transmission gearing helping

03-27-2025, 05:57 PM	#40 (permalink)
bandit86 Master EcoModder Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: london, on Posts: 378 Buggie - '01 Vw Beetle TDI Gls Thanks: 4 Thanked 45 Times in 33 Posts	We could maybe try this with an electric car, using a watt meter. Accelerate from standstill to 35 miles an hour and drive 100 ft and measure amount of watts used. Although now that I think about it we don't have the transmission gearing helping