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Clive wrote:
There are hidden factors, an ICE engine produces heat that is used to
keep the passenger compartment warm while the engine is running. Try
keeping the car warm, dry or for that matter cool in summer, using your
battery power source instead of the combustion engine's mechanical or
heat energy and suddenly there's a whole extra load on the alternative
power source that is not at all easy to incorporate.

Showing just how inefficient a petrol engine is.

Perhaps you'd better set about a more efficient way of converting a high
density fuel like petrol to mechanical energy, then. Electric vehicles
driven off storage batteries have been around for nearly as long. If they
were capable of being developed into a viable competitor, it would have
been done years ago.

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
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