--- On Wed, 5/1/13, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jon Elson <[email protected]> > Subject: [Emc-users] OT - electric vehicles > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 11:18 AM > Well, this is pretty off-topic, > except that these machines are basically > big servo motors and drives. I have a Honda Civic > hybrid and have > driven it for about 4 years. I just had to have the > hybrid battery > replaced at Honda's cost this winter. I get 49 MPG in > the winter > and hot summer, and am getting 57 MPG right now, in mixed > city/highway driving. I fill the gas tank a bit more > than once a month!
A Geo Metro could easily match those numbers 20+ years ago. Could do almost that good with an automatic transmission. When a new car can beat the old Metro for MPG in real world use, then that'll be something for its manufacturer to crow about. Even more embarrassing to the current "high MPG" vehicles is the 1994 and earlier Oldsmobile Achieva with the SOHC 4 cylinder. Had a 1994 Achieva that averaged 40 MPG on a 882 mile trip, including long stretches of 75 MPH freeway. In 1995 GM discontinued that engine! Only the higher power, less efficient, DOHC 4 and pushrod V6 were available in the N-body cars from then until that line being discontinued. So why can't the auto industry build a car NOW with the size and efficiency they easily Achieva-ed 19 years ago? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
