On 2014-10-28, at 15:29, Lawrence Winiarski wrote: > Sure seems to me the answer is to use the waste heat off the electric motor. > (there's plenty of it in normal driving).
This might be convenient if converting an old air-cooled VW, which already has ducting for cab heat via engine cooling. Otherwise, it's probably more trouble than it's worth, no? Particularly since the electric motor is much more efficient than the ICE -- for equal power, you're only going to have about 15% of heat available from the engine. (Assuming the ICE is 33% efficient, and the electric is 90% efficient.) :::: There are three types of friends: those like food, without which you can't live; those like medicine, which you need occasionally; and those like an illness, which you never want. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
