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...
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...