Beautifully presented - and for an engine neophyte like myself extremely informative. Thanks!
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to see a simple comment appreciating the design.
How a Car Engine Works
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#22Mirror here: http://visual.ly/how-car-engine-works-animated
Thx. Btw - is hackernewsed the new slashdotted?
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#23Nowadays hybrids are smarter. Combustion engine is used to charge batteries and provide power to the electric motor, it's more efficient way of using energy from gasoline. Using combustion with electric motor stands out to be much less efficient.
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#24How a gasoline car engine works, specifically a piston car engine with injection. There are lots of other variations on the theme of car engine. For instance, Diesel, Natural Gas, LPG, electricity (non-hybrid) and another configurations for the hot chamber, for instance a Wankel engine. Instead of injection there is carburation (an older, less efficient process for getting the fuel air mixture into the cylinders), an…
Not to mention superchargers and turbo and supercharger combinations (AKA twinchargers). VW's 1.4TSI is a great twincharged engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twincharger
Or Wankel engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
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#25Nowadays hybrids are smarter. Combustion engine is used to charge batteries and provide power to the electric motor, it's more efficient way of using energy from gasoline. Using combustion with electric motor stands out to be much less efficient.
AFAIK we're still not doing it right. The best way is to make the electric motor the main motor, and having the gasoline engine be small and tuned to run at a consistent peak efficiency RPM, and only used to charge the batteries. This was figured out in 1979! http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/electric... (see the diagram in the fourth image).
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#26Loved it! Had actually no idea how a car engine worked.
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#27Great illustration. Thanks!
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#28Now here's a good website with nice animated illustrations. But it's all one giant animated GIF. It won't scale up or down and it's already running short on colors. This is something where WebGL would excel, you could get the full color palette and make it interactive. So far all WebGL demos I have seen are tech demos or simple games that look like OpenGL games did in 2004, and they have not been really used inside w…
Another benefit of not using a monolithic gif is the ability to translate the page to different languages. I could see a huge interest in non-English speaking countries for this.
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#29Water boil at exactly 100 degrees Celsius... not the conversion of 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Americans. ;-)
Nice job still.
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#30Nowadays hybrids are smarter. Combustion engine is used to charge batteries and provide power to the electric motor, it's more efficient way of using energy from gasoline. Using combustion with electric motor stands out to be much less efficient.
That isn't true, most hybrids still have a mechanical connection between the combustion engine and the drive wheels. That is, the Prius, Ford hybrids, GM hybrids, I'm sure others.