On Mar 6 , at 9:23 AM, STANLEY DOORE wrote:
The "New Kia No 3 concept car stars at Geneva Show" article
reported by Motor Matters in the March 6 issue of The Washington
Times uses all metric. Great!
Following are a few examples
Gasoline only Hybrid gas-
electric
Length 4045 mm 4045 mm
CO2 rating 137 g/km 109 g/km
Engine size 1.4 & 1.6-litre 1.6-
litre
Fuel Consumption
4.81 liters per 100 km
15
kW
105
Nm AC
Acceleration to
11.8 seconds
100 kph
Top speed 185
kph
To what do those two items, "15 kW" and 105 Nm AC", refer?
They seem to be unlabeled in the table, but the table was a bit
garbled (just not well lined up, mainly) as I received it on my
computer (a common problem with tables transmitted by email).
"15 kW" is obviously a power, but - power of what? The "4.81 L/100 km"
is presumably the fuel consumption for the gasoline-only car (although
my garbled table shows it in the "hybrid" column. So the 15 kW perhaps
belongs in the next (hybrid) column, but why it would be on the line
labeled "fuel consumption" I don't know.
105 Nm might be a torque but that makes the appended "AC" confusing.
If it is a torque, then, torque of what?
And if it is torque and the unit is supposed to be newton-metres,
then the symbol should be "N m" or "N.m" or "N·m", with a space or dot
or raised dot between the symbol for newtons and the symbol for metres.
