America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
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America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
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#2The most useful result is that almost everything on the road can go uphill without slowing down. Even heavy trucks. This requires not just engine power but better cooling.
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#3The most useful result is that almost everything on the road can go uphill without slowing down. Even heavy trucks. This requires not just engine power but better cooling.
I see you haven't met my 2000 corolla. :-)
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#5I think it's weird that they didn't weight any of the charts by how many of each car were sold. It only measures how many car configurations were available.
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#7The most useful result is that almost everything on the road can go uphill without slowing down. Even heavy trucks. This requires not just engine power but better cooling.
Is truck heaviness primarily bounded by legal weight limits or whether or not trucks can get up hills?
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#8I'd love to see a chart of the power/weight ratio of engines over time.
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#9The chart makes me sad. My Subaru BRZ (2013-) "sports car" comes with only 200hp. Many people looking for more power install aftermarket superchargers.
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#10The most useful result is that almost everything on the road can go uphill without slowing down. Even heavy trucks. This requires not just engine power but better cooling.
Is truck heaviness primarily bounded by legal weight limits or whether or not trucks can get up hills?
Legal weight limits are lower than what the truck can pull. Basically a truck has enough gears that it could pull any load up any hill (though it may be slow). The limit would be when the traction wheels spin out.