Around here running diesel engined road vehicles on kerosene is fairly widespread amongst commercial users, as there is a 25-35% savings in fuel cost pr. litre. The "kerosene" sold from gas station pumps is the same as sold to airlines for their jets, we are told, for purchase commonality...
A thought on "yank out the gasoline engine, put in the little diesel". Priuses (Prii?) are modified by many, for plug-in capability, to burn hydrogen etc - no-one has done a diesel transplant? Too complex maybe, against Toyotas proprietary software and complex driveline...? What do you think are...
Exactly, Pat, the Golf and Peugeot 308 tested against the Prius are more spacious and more practical, in spite of being less expensive and more economical in real-world use.
Interesting info about the Prius engine parameters. It sounds like Toyotas only-for-Prius unit is in effect a "limited-range" thing. It has a conspicuously low power density, which supports those saying that high specific output does not automatically lead to high efficiency. In spite of all the...
This belatedly picks up an interesting thread from earlier in the year, titled "One speed/one load genset for electric vehicles". Please refer to thread 71-207534.
Great stuff, hard facts. Thanks. Brian Peterson rightfully points out the benefit of chamber size in the quest for efficiency...
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how true. Indias "one lakh car" is a major environmental threat for these reasons precisely. The most effective environmental single sweep is pinching the purses of your fellow drive in laners through European levels of fossil fuel taxation. And its not about to happen. Still, we've...
Thanks for the charge/discharge loss figures, they go some way towards answering the question above.
Brian Petersons point about leeway around BSFC is most valid too. However, the core of this single-point idea is taking the best BSFC of the best modern turbo diesel and besting it by some...
Thank you for your response. These forums are without equal in quality of information, I believe.
Standard locomotive practice, precisely. However, the diesel/electric locomotives I remember used output control through the conventional diesel engines, rather than this proposed simple, optimized...
The general direction of combustion engine development is towards increased complexity to retain efficiency over a wider range of speed and load, with Daimlers DiesOtto as possibly the pinnacle. Going the other way, designing a combustion engine for one speed and one load would shed loads of...
